42 applicants

Company

Block · 5 hours ago

Senior Software Security Engineer, Product

San Francisco Bay Area

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$198K/yr - $297K/yr

8+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Work with product teams to threat-model Cash App features and identify vulnerabilities.

Design, build, and own the security & privacy mechanisms and features which support product engineering teams and customer operations.

Drive the direction of the organization by productionizing common security patterns and working toward our security roadmap.

Design, apply, and develop security primitives to protect data.

Identify and remedy potential security risks to our customers' data.

Partner with product teams to implement relevant regulatory data privacy considerations.

Help the engineers around you level-up on their own security reasoning and knowledge.

Qualification

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Security engineeringApplied cryptographyAWS KMSGoogle Tink APIsAndroid developmentIOS developmentJava 11KotlinMySQLDynamoDBMicroservicesKubernetesTerraformTechnical initiativeData privacySecurity reasoningSoftware engineering fundamentalsHTTPJSONGRPCProtocol BuffersJUnitHibernateGuice

Required

8+ years of relevant experience

Experience demonstrating technical initiative and leadership through the end-to-end delivery of products in the security space

You enjoy solving problems at scale, through hands-on problem solving

Strong desire to perform and grow as a security engineer and educate other engineers

An interest in working on a product that impacts people/businesses directly

You have an aptitude for applied cryptography, security, and strong software engineering fundamentals

Company

Block

Glassdoor

3.9

Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment.

Founded in 1990

Oakland, California, US

10001+ employees

https://block.xyz/

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