Security Engineer

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Beacon Platform was founded in 2014 by Kirat Singh and Mark Higgins, industry leaders in building and designing enterprise-scale trading, analytics, and risk management platforms. Our products enable financial institutions of all sizes to operationalize front-office development at enterprise scale on the cloud. The Platform consists of Beacon Front Office Suite for cross-asset management of trades, positions and risk, and Beacon Core, an integrated development and operating platform that enables quants and software engineers to collaboratively develop and continuously deploy business solutions. Beacon's open architecture and transparent source-code model empower clients to achieve their business goals while maintaining unparalleled ownership of the full technology stack.

Position Overview

We are looking for an experienced Security Engineer to join our Core and Platform teams to help establish a dedicated security team. You will work on making security on the Beacon Platform visible, tractable, and usable. Whether automating vulnerability detection and upgrade cycles as part of engineering workflow, observing and learning from network events, surfacing security issues, or designing secure but low-friction access mechanisms, you know what is needed and have the skills to build it.

You have experience in both offensive and defensive security measures, and know when to flip between them. Working with all the teams at Beacon, you are equally comfortable with nitty-gritty in engineering as you are with ensuring everyone can understand the reasons, limits and constraints that come with the territory. Since Beacon Platform is an integrated development and runtime environment, you will get to define how we meet both security and compliance needs, without either compromising the other.

Working closely with engineering and compliance, but not limited to either, your skills will help everyone to develop and maintain a system our clients can rely on. If you know what combining security with-grade usability takes, we want to talk to you!

What You'll Do

Build software, tooling and practices to continuously improve security everywhere at Beacon

Infuse the expectation of secure-by-default into everything you come in contact with

Make visibility and early detection of relevant security matters a baseline feature across the entire stack

Expose cloud vendors' security events natively within the system in a self-serviceable fashion

Apply solid engineering and automation principles to ensure security is an integral part of Beacon's development workflow

Share your knowledge, help and mentor others, and allow them to rely on themselves instead of you

What We're Looking For

5+ years of hands-on experience in systems and security engineering

Experience working in a SaaS environment

Intimately familiar with Linux and orchestration runtimes

At home with Agile development, DevOps mentality and Continuous Delivery

Professional paranoia

Lives and breathes modern - and emerging - secure development practices

Happy with Python and Go, but always ready to pick up the right tool for the job

Ability to work in a creative, fast-paced environment

A degree in CS is preferable, but not strictly necessary

Constant drive for usability

What Will Make You Stand Out

You don't impose on others - you enable them

Pragmatism and humility

You know when to roll up your sleeves (and when not)

Personal experience on what engineering-first approach feels like

Constructive cynicism

Active in the community

You have untangled ill-advised policies and fixed them

What You'll Love About Beacon

Unlimited PTO - This isn't your typical unlimited PTO plan. All employees take at least 20 days off a year. After that? Take the time off you need to strike the perfect work/life balance for you.

10 paid company holidays

401k match

Charitable donation match

Access to Udemy - An online learning and teaching marketplace with over 185,000 courses. Learn programming, marketing, data science, or brush up on your public speaking and writing skills.

Startup Culture - Our employees have a voice and can make a big impact across the organization. A lot of people in large companies don't feel connected to what they're doing and feel like they're put in a box. Here you will have the freedom to be creative and innovative. We're looking for smart and driven people to help get us to the next level. 

Beacon does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Beacon encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.