Lead Security Engineer

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🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $240k - $260k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Prelim

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2017

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

Finance • Fintech • SaaS

Prelim is a company that provides advanced digital solutions for banks and credit unions. Its platform supports banks in building over 100 financial applications and enhances their offerings with omnichannel onboarding and real-time integrations. Prelim empowers financial institutions to offer a uniform customer experience across various financial products like deposit accounts and credit cards. Its white-labeled solutions align with the banks' brand identities, and its powerful tools allow institutions to automate processes and tailor customer journeys. The company ensures compliance and security with its SOC 2 certifications and partnerships with established security and compliance entities, making it an integral partner for banks managing over $5 trillion in assets.

📋 Description

• Own the Secure SDLC, including dependency scanning, static analysis, security reviews of high-risk changes, and coordination of annual penetration tests • Teach engineers to identify security issues earlier • Partner with DevOps on IAM, secrets management, network architecture, logging, and detection • Define policies, conduct risk assessments, and create the security roadmap • Own security questionnaires, vendor risk assessments, and customer security reviews • Manage endpoint security, access reviews, phishing resistance, and offboarding hygiene • Own SOC 2 Type II end to end, including control design, evidence collection, and auditor management • Own incident response by writing the plan, running tabletops, and leading real incidents • Help define Prelim's security program as its first dedicated security hire

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years in security engineering, with breadth across appsec, cloud security, and compliance • Hands-on ability to read code, write scripts, and configure cloud controls • Owned or heavily contributed to a SOC 2 audit, or ISO 27001 / equivalent • Experience answering enterprise or financial-institution security reviews • Strong written communication • Judgment about proportionality and appropriate security controls • Fintech or banking-vendor experience preferred; familiarity with FFIEC, GLBA, or bank third-party risk management preferred • Experience as a first or early security hire preferred • Detection engineering / SIEM experience preferred • Familiarity with core banking integrations or PII/KYC data flows preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Sponsored 401K • Parental leave • Fully paid health, vision, and dental insurance • Unlimited PTO • Remote work stipend • Life-style stipend • Twice-yearly company retreats