Remitly

Remitly

Staff Security Engineer

Seattle, Washington United States · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$212k-$265kDetected 7 days ago
PythonDartCybersecuritySIEMKQLSOARDetection EngineeringSystems EngineeringCollaborationMentoring

About the role

  • Remitly moves billions of dollars across borders for millions of customers, which makes it a target.
  • Nation-state actors, financially motivated crews, supply-chain attackers, and fraud rings all want a piece of that money, and there are more of them every year.
  • To stay ahead, Remitly has brought four security functions into a single Adversary Management directorate: Threat Intelligence (SIFT), Detection & Response (DART), Vulnerability Management, and Red Team.

Responsibilities

  • Drive the strategy for your area.
  • You'll read the current state of the sub-domain and its threat vectors, define the objectives that follow from it, and build a roadmap that looks one to three years out and delivers risk reduction in stages.
  • That includes framing the build-vs-buy calls and weighing acceptable risk against what it costs to reduce.
  • Shape the architecture and direction of Remitly's logging, alerting, and investigation platforms across cloud and corporate environments, and drive the automation that makes detection and response faster.
  • When something major happens, you'll drive the response across teams and the wider Adversary Management directorate, write the COEs, and push through the systemic fixes that close root causes for good.
  • Review new products and architectures for risk and lead design reviews so detection and response are built in before launch. A lot of the value here is catching the long-term risks that come from architecture or process gaps spanning multiple teams.
  • Experience designing, building, or integrating AI-enabled systems to accelerate technical and non-technical workflows such.
  • Ability to evaluate where AI can safely add value, design reliable AI-assisted workflows, and implement production-ready solutions with appropriate security, privacy, monitoring, and human-review controls.
  • A proven ability to lead through complex, high-stakes situations and to drive long-standing or intractable problems to resolution.
  • You'll work with a "detection as code" mindset, and your impact will come as much from the standards, automation, and mentorship you create as from the detections you write yourself.

Requirements

  • Proficiency in writing and reading code and queries, whether hand-written or AI/agent-assisted (e.g., Python, scripting, query languages like SPL/KQL), enough to set the patterns others follow and to review their work.
  • Bachelor's degree in a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
  • You can pitch the message to the audience, and you operate with discretion.

Compensation

  • The starting base salary range for this position is typically $212,000-$265,000.
  • In the U.S., Remitly employees are shareholders in our Company and equity is part of our total compensation plan.
  • Your recruiter can share more information about medical benefits offered, as well as other financial benefits and total compensation components offered with this role.

Benefits

  • Flexible paid time off
  • Health, dental, and vision + 401k plan with company matching
  • Paid parental, medical, military and family care leave
  • Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
  • Learning & development benefits

Company info

  • Threat Intelligence (SIFT), Detection & Response (DART), Vulnerability Management, and Red Team.
  • The goal is to understand the adversaries who want to do financial and material harm to Remitly and our customers, and to get out in front of them.
  • These functions depend on each other every day, and that only works with a strong program backbone connecting the pillars.
  • We're looking for a Staff Security Engineer to join Detection & Response as a senior individual contributor and technical leader.
  • You'll lead through technical depth and influence rather than through direct reports, working alongside our other senior engineers.
  • Driving Innovation, Together
  • At Remitly, we believe that true innovation sparks when we come together.
  • Our Connected Work Culture fosters dynamic in-person collaboration, where ideas ignite and challenging problems find solutions faster.
  • For corporate team members, we have an in-office expectation of at least 50% of the time monthly, typically achieved by coming in three days a week.
  • Managers also have the flexibility to set higher expectations based on their team's specific needs.
  • These intentional in-office moments are vital for deepening relationships, fueling creativity, and ensuring your impact is felt where it matters most.
  • Remitly is an E-Verify Employer
  • At Remitly, we are dedicated to ensuring that our workplace offers equal employment opportunities to all employees and candidates, in full compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

Equal opportunity

  • equal opportunity employer.
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