Kikoff
Senior Security Engineer
San Francisco · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$244k-$292kDetected 21 days ago
PythonGoRubyCode ReviewAWSCloud PlatformsTerraformCI/CDCybersecurityIncident ResponseComplianceValuationSupply ChainCommunicationPipeline Integrity
About the role
- This is a mission-critical role at the heart of how Kikoff protects millions of customers and their financial data.
- You'll have real ownership, and the work you do will be felt by every engineer at Kikoff and every customer we serve.
Responsibilities
- With record revenue growth in 2025 and a unicorn valuation, we've built a suite of products that help millions of people build credit, access liquidity, and save money.
- Join us if you want to build something meaningful and help millions of people move forward financially.
- We value extreme ownership, clear communication, a strong sense of craftsmanship, and the desire to create lasting work and work relationships.
- Design and maintain secure-by-default infrastructure patterns - IaC modules, container configurations, IAM policy baselines, and secrets management - so the secure path is the easy path for developers
- Build detection and audit logging capabilities that give us visibility at scale
- Partner with product and platform engineers to embed security into the development lifecycle through code review, threat modeling, and reusable secure patterns
- Build internal tooling that scales security and our engineering teams
- Track and drive remediation of vulnerabilities across infrastructure and applications
Requirements
- Data security expertise - tokenization, column-level access controls, audit logging at scale
Nice to have
- Be the person engineers come to for a clear, practical answers
- Participate in incident response and postmortems
- Help shape our security program as an early, senior hire on the team
- 5+ years in security engineering with meaningful experience in cloud-native environments (AWS strongly preferred)
- Hands-on with infrastructure-as-code security - you've written and reviewed Pulumi or Terraform and know where things go wrong
- Strong command of AWS security primitives
- Experience securing containerized workloads
- Fluency in at least one scripting or programming language for automation (Python, Go, Ruby, or similar)
Compensation
- Data security expertise - tokenization, column-level access controls, audit logging at scale
- Fintech or consumer financial services background
- You've built internal security tooling from scratch, not just deployed vendor products
Company info
- Kikoff is a profitable, pre-IPO fintech company on a mission to empower everyone to achieve financial security.
Equal opportunity
- Kikoff Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.
- We are committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities and considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
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