Principal Security Engineer

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $319k - $478.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1990

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

💳 Fintech

Consulting • Marketing • Fintech

Block is a technology company that aims to increase access to the global economy through its various brands. Square provides commerce and financial services designed for sellers, while Cash App offers an easy platform for spending, sending, and storing money. Afterpay allows customers to manage their spending over time. Additionally, TIDAL empowers artists by providing them with tools for entrepreneurship, and Bitkey and Proto focus on bitcoin and related services. Together, these services contribute to building an open financial system accessible to everyone.

📋 Description

• Deliver innovative software solutions to security problems and address Block's top risks • Define the multi-year technical strategy for software security at Block • Guide architectural decisions and align with engineering best practices • Lead common, high-leverage security solutions and infrastructure across Square, Cash App, TBD, and other business units • Drive security engineering excellence for tokenization platforms, including integrity, performance, and scalability • Spearhead security strategy and engineering excellence for mobile software and platforms • Champion security reliability engineering practices to improve resilience and availability • Lead technical planning and implementation for high-priority security initiatives • Act as a technical decision maker/tie-breaker and uphold high technical standards • Partner with engineering leaders on Secure SDLC integration, security architecture reviews, and threat modeling • Mentor InfoSec engineers on technical execution, system design, and technology choices • Drive knowledge sharing and documentation

🎯 Requirements

• Track record of exemplary technical leadership and decision-making at a Principal or equivalent level (L8+ technical capabilities preferred) • 10+ years of experience developing and shipping production software and critical services • Minimum of 5 years focused on establishing and scaling security practices in a large, modern technology environment • Mastery of system design and architecture • Demonstrable experience solving ambiguous, domain-heavy problems • Deep technical understanding of security vulnerabilities, risks, countermeasures, and compensating controls • Experience in high-volume, real-time transaction processing environments • Exceptional collaboration and communication skills • Ability to influence executive leadership and direct engineering teams in prioritizing security roadmap items • Ability to write production-quality code/script for security automation and tooling • Experience leading significant technical initiatives across multiple team, organizational, and product boundaries (preferred) • Experience in financial technology, payments, or cryptocurrency/bitcoin (preferred) • Experience improving engineering standards and practices for security (preferred)

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work • Medical insurance • Flexible time off • Retirement savings plans • Modern family planning • Reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process

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