Staff Product Security Engineer

As a Staff Product Security Engineer, you will join the Product Security team at Credit Karma and play a critical role in designing and influencing the technical strategy of Credit Karma’s Product Security Team. You’ll have the opportunity to influence the security posture of our products and services.You will collaborate across all engineering teams and product development organizations, and be a trusted advisor to senior and executive leadership. 

What you'll do:

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• Drive a holistic security architectural and technical strategy across a number of interdependent engineering teams, architects, systems and offerings.
• Partner closely with senior product leadership to continuously connect business outcomes to platform technical strategy
• Drive system and platform thinking within development teams
• Influence and shape the frameworks, abstractions, and patterns used by product development teams.
• Be the technical expert, researching, evaluating, and implementing state-of-the-art security technologies (open source, third party)
• Apply strong technical documentation and presentation skills to communicate architectural and design options at all levels, including to executive leadership.
• Act as an industry thought leader, continuing to share Intuit’s growth story as one of the top SaaS, data-driven, and cloud deployed companies on the web
• Grow a strong security culture - set and evangelize vision, facilitative leadership, attract and retain key talent. Talent steward for the security organization, mentor rising leaders

What's great about the role:

• Developing and communicating vision, strategy, and roadmap for the capabilities you own
• Build a mitigation plan for addressing cyber security risks
• Collaborating with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Collaborating with the architecture team to ensure those technical solutions are scalable, reliable, and secure 
• Collaborating across the organization to align technical strategy and to ensure interoperability of systems
• Evaluating and selecting best fit technologies, frameworks, and tools to support the Credit Karma’s Cybersecurity goals
• Drive the adoption of secure coding and secure testing practices across Credit Karma
• Mentoring and growing engineers, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning
• Studying emerging technologies, industry trends, and advancements in security architecture and in fintech

What we expect:

• 5+ years’ experience designing and leading large security architectural efforts for Product Security, including hands-on contributions to complex distributed code bases.
• Broad expertise with modern technology stacks and architectural patterns including API design, Database, microservices, cloud and modern online and offline data processing techniques
• Experience driving security programs like Data Security, API Security and Zero trust architecture.
• Experience designing and building for scale, resilience and operational excellence
• Excellent communication skills: demonstrated ability to present to all levels of leadership, including executives 
• Seasoned and ambidextrous leadership - able to balance short and long term goals, inspire and coach
• BS/MS in computer science, or equivalent work experience

What we'd like to see:

• Expertise in FinTech and how technology can be used to solve problems
• Strong background in Software development and good understanding of software design principles.
• Boundaryless leadership experience: the ability to influence and drive alignment across organizational boundaries and across disciplines

Benefits at Credit Karma include:

• Medical and Dental Coverage
• Retirement Plan
• Commuter Benefits
• Wellness perks
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick, Baby Bonding, Cultural Observance, & More)
• Education Perks
• Paid Gift Week in December