Staff Software Engineer, Product Security

About GlossGenius

GlossGenius is building an ecosystem enabling entrepreneurs to succeed.  We empower small business owners to focus on being creators, not admins, by offering a range of business management tools including booking and scheduling, marketing, analytics, payment processing and much more. 

Tens of thousands of small business owners have chosen to rely on GlossGenius every day to run their entire set of business operations. With its powerful, intuitive platform, GlossGenius is some part a fintech company, some part an SMB software company, while its vibrant, distinguished brand makes it some part a consumer company.

About the Role

As a Staff Software Engineer, Product Security, you’ll have an opportunity to join GlossGenius as an early member of our Platform Engineering team. As a technical leader, you will help to identify and solve technical and business problems faced by our team. You will help to set the foundations of our security engineering team and work closely with various cross-functional product teams so we are able to ship more reliable, secure products to tens of thousands GlossGenius customers.

What You’ll Do

• Own and define our long-term roadmap and technical vision for security engineering at GlossGenius and actively support a team of engineers to deliver on it
• Influence business and product decisions, balancing the right long term trade-offs between customer impact and product security
• Influence senior leaders on security engineering strategy and execution to achieve team goals
• Partner closely with development teams to design and implement security controls and processes
• Conduct security assessments and audits to identify vulnerabilities and risks in products and systems
• Manage security incidents and coordinating response and recovery efforts
• Develop and maintain security policies, procedures, and tooling
• Understand industry and company-wide trends to help assess and develop new technologies

What We’re Looking For

• A prior track record of technical leadership experience
• 7+ years of experience with software engineering or a related field, with a focus on security engineering, application security, or product security
• 3+ years of experience developing in a high level programming language (e.g. Typescript, golang, Ruby, Python)
• Deep understanding of security principles and best practices
• Advanced knowledge of OWASP Top 10 for web, mobile and APIs
• Experience with leading and hands-on development of security features, tools, or services
• Experience collaborating with cross functional stakeholders such as product managers and development teams
• Demonstrated experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc), having designed, built, and maintained secure cloud platforms that run highly reliable, web-facing services
• Demonstrated experience with infrastructure-as-code principles and development
• Knowledge of IP networking, DNS, CDN, load balancing, HTTP, and firewalls
• Willingness to participate in on-call rotations
• You prefer taking projects from start to finish and are outcome oriented

Benefits & Perks 

• Flexible PTO
• Competitive health, vision & dental insurance options, with premiums partially covered by GG
• Fertility and adoption benefits via Carrot and Kindbody
• Generous, fully-paid parental leave policy
• 401k benefit - employees are eligible to contribute starting day 1 of employment
• Professional Development - employees receive a yearly stipend for approved learning and educational-related expenses
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Dependent Care FSA
• Home office stipend
• Team Bonding opportunities - annual company retreat for entire team, plus virtual events throughout the year

The starting base salary for this role in New York, California, and Washington is between $198,000-$272,250 + target equity + benefits. The base salary offered is dependent upon many factors including skills, experience, location, and education. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. 

In order to enter the NY office or participate in any in-person events, all employees must show proof of vaccination against COVID-19. For those individuals who are unable to be vaccinated, GlossGenius will engage in an interactive process to determine a reasonable accommodation.

At GlossGenius, we celebrate our differences and are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel supported and empowered to do their best work. We believe this benefits not only our employees but our product, customers, and community as well. GlossGenius is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.