Senior Security Engineer- San Francisco HQ

Orb

$130K — $180K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of software or security engineering experience
  • Strong hands-on expertise in securing cloud-native systems (particularly AWS)
  • Broad knowledge of application security, IAM, vulnerability management, and incident response
  • Proactive approach to creating sustainable security solutions
  • Ability to operate autonomously as Orb's first dedicated security hire

Responsibilities

  • Own application and infrastructure security across the AWS environment
  • Manage identity and access controls for production systems
  • Establish security standards for the engineering organization
  • Integrate security into the CI/CD pipeline and developer tools
  • Develop safe operation protocols for AI coding agents
  • Collaborate with Adyen's security team to enhance practices and scalability

Benefits

  • Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • One Medical membership
  • Unlimited PTO, plus an extra week off between Christmas and New Year's
  • 401k plan
  • 16-week paid parental leave with equity vesting
  • Commuter stipend
  • Catered lunches in the office
  • Annual learning & development stipend
  • Meaningful equity through stock options
Full Job Description
About the role:

As Orb's first dedicated Security Engineer, you'll own the hands-on technical security of a platform trusted with our customers' most sensitive data - their revenue. Billing sits at the center of how our customers run their businesses, and as we've grown (and as we lean heavily into AI-assisted development), securing our infrastructure, our code, and the way we ship has become a full-time job of its own. You'll make the secure path the default across our AWS environment and our codebase, working directly with our engineering lead and partnering closely with Adyen's security organization.

In this role you will:
  • Own application and infrastructure security across our AWS environment - threat-modeling new systems, reviewing designs and code, and fixing the issues you find
  • Own identity and access - from least-privilege IAM to how engineers and AI agents get scoped, auditable access to production
  • Set the security baseline for the whole engineering org, turning one-off fixes into durable controls that make the secure path the default
  • Build security into how we ship, partnering with the platform team on CI/CD and developer tooling
  • Shape how AI coding agents operate safely against real systems - one of the more interesting security problems we have
  • Partner closely with Adyen's security organization, bringing their scale and practices to bear as we grow
About you:
  • 5+ years of experience in software or security engineering
  • Strong hands-on background securing cloud-native systems (AWS preferred), comfortable reading and writing code
  • Depth across several of: application and product security, IAM and access management, vulnerability management, detection and response
  • You default to solving security problems structurally - making the safe path the default rather than adding process
  • Comfortable being the first dedicated security hire, operating with a lot of autonomy

Orb's Tech Stack:

At Orb, we believe great engineers can learn any stack, so you do not need experience with these specific tools, and we encourage you to apply regardless.
  • Frontend: Typescript + React + Tailwind CSS
  • Backend: Python
  • Datastores: PostgreSQL + Apache Druid+ Clickhouse
  • Streaming Platforms: Kafka + Spark Streaming
  • Cloud Platform: AWS

Benefits:
  • Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • One Medical membership
  • Unlimited PTO plus an additional week off between Christmas and New Year's
  • 401k plan
  • 16-week paid parental leave with equity vesting
  • Commuter stipend
  • Catered lunches in the office
  • Annual learning & development stipend
  • Meaningful equity in the form of stock options

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