Senior Software Engineer, Security

Persona is a tech startup offering flexible building blocks that help businesses fight fraud, stay compliant, and build trust among their customers.
$190,000 - $250,000
Security
Senior Software Engineer
Hybrid
101 - 500 Employees
5+ years of experience
AI · Cybersecurity · Enterprise SaaS

Description For Senior Software Engineer, Security

Founded in 2018, Persona is a 250-person tech startup based in San Francisco, backed by top-tier investors. They offer flexible building blocks to help businesses fight fraud, stay compliant, and build trust among customers. As a Senior Software Engineer in Security, you'll own security-sensitive libraries and components of the production platform. Your mission will be to design, build, and maintain security libraries and systems to protect customers' accounts and data. You'll work on encrypting customer data, refining authentication and authorization components, and proposing new security features. This role requires 5+ years of security software engineering experience, a passion for security, product thinking, an innovative mindset, proactive thinking, and a collaborative spirit. You'll be based at the San Francisco headquarters, with relocation assistance available. Persona offers competitive compensation, including equity, and best-in-class benefits such as 401K matching, parental leave, unlimited PTO, and wellness stipends. The company is recognized as one of Fortune's Best Medium Workplaces, emphasizing their commitment to fostering a world-class team and valuing people above all else.

Last updated 5 months ago

Responsibilities For Senior Software Engineer, Security

  • Own the systems used to encrypt customers' data
  • Refine authentication and authorization components in the product
  • Design, build, and maintain flexible and reusable security libraries
  • Propose, build, and ship new security features
  • Participate in the on-call rotation for the Security Team

Requirements For Senior Software Engineer, Security

  • 5+ years of security software engineering experience at a fast-moving technology company
  • Experience with building performant, highly interactive web applications
  • Passion for security and keeping skills and knowledge sharp
  • Product-thinking ability to maximize value while minimizing complexity
  • Innovative mindset to push the product forward
  • Proactive thinking and ability to unblock oneself
  • Collaborative spirit and ability to leverage diverse perspectives

Benefits For Senior Software Engineer, Security

401k
Medical Insurance
Mental Health Assistance
Parental Leave
Relocation Benefits
  • Competitive equity packages
  • 401K matching
  • Parental leave
  • Quarterly company-wide mental health days
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Family planning stipend
  • Wellness stipend
  • Relocation assistance (for those outside San Francisco Bay Area)

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