Senior Engineer, Security

Taptap Send

• $135K — $160K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of hands-on security engineering experience with production systems
  • Proficient in writing and shipping code, specifically Terraform and Python
  • Extensive knowledge of AWS security practices, including IAM and container security
  • Experience in application security, threat modeling, and offensive testing
  • Proven skills in security incident response and forensic investigation
  • History of managing vulnerability remediation across multiple teams with autonomy
  • Familiarity with regulated environments and transforming compliance requirements into actionable engineering tasks

Responsibilities

  • Remediate security vulnerabilities in infrastructure by implementing Terraform and application changes
  • Oversee AWS security architecture, including IAM policies and logging practices
  • Conduct regular penetration testing and proactive threat modeling for new services
  • Lead the response to security incidents, managing forensic investigations and detection improvements
  • Drive vulnerability management processes from identification to resolution

Benefits

  • Work alongside the Chief Information Security Officer to influence the security agenda
  • Opportunity to directly implement changes and see immediate impact
  • Collaborative environment with a focus on proactive security measures
  • Involvement in cutting-edge security practices and technologies
  • Enhanced focus on personal growth and skill development in a rapidly evolving field
Full Job Description
The Role

We are looking for a Senior Engineer, Security to join our Platform Engineering team. This is a find-and-fix role. When you find a vulnerability in our infrastructure, you write the Terraform or the application change that closes it. Where the fix belongs to another team, you drive it to completion, with the CISO supporting you.

You will report into Platform Engineering and work closely with our CISO, who sets the security agenda and is your escalation route when remediation stalls elsewhere.

Responsibilities
  • Fix it, don't just find it: Remediate security findings across our infrastructure, writing the Terraform and application changes that close them. Where the fix belongs to another team, drive it to completion. Run vulnerability management from Snyk, Prowler, and ASV findings through to verified fixes.
  • Own AWS security: Cloud posture across IAM and least privilege, network boundaries, secrets management, and logging coverage. Define the technical security baselines new services are built to, covering host hardening, WAF configuration and deployment patterns, and enforce them as code.
  • Find problems before anyone else does: Regular penetration testing against our own environment, ahead of the formal annual assessment carried out by our external testers. Threat modelling and security review for new services early enough to change the design, including our integrations with payment and custody providers.
  • Respond when it matters: Serve as technical lead for security incidents, including forensic investigation. Own and improve detection coverage in Datadog, tuning alerts for signals.


What you need
  • Five or more years in hands-on security engineering, with responsibility for production systems.
  • You write and ship code. Terraform and Python, and enough application fluency to fix what you find rather than hand it off.
  • Deep AWS security experience, including IAM and least privilege at organization scale, and container workloads in ECS or EKS.
  • Application security, including threat modelling and hands-on offensive testing against cloud and application targets.
  • Security incident response, including forensic investigation.
  • You have run vulnerability management and driven fixes through teams you do not manage; you work the finding queue on your own initiative, without being chased.
  • You have worked in a regulated environment and turned ISO 27001, PCI DSS, or SOC 2 requirements into engineering work.
  • Detection engineering in Datadog, or a comparable SIEM.
  • Securing CI/CD pipelines, particularly GitHub Actions.
  • Cryptography and secrets management in practice, including key rotation and certificate lifecycle.
  • Using AI coding tools to remediate at scale, and reviewing AI-generated code with a security eye
  • Experience with payments, cards, or digital assets.


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