Security Software Engineer Intern 2023

Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. Affirm proudly includes Returnly.
As an intern at Affirm, you will be a contributing member of our outstanding product security team and will work on meaningful projects that will help Affirm engineering teams deliver secure products. The Product Security team is responsible for managing end-to-end security risk for Affirm's products. Our team works with engineering teams to create threat models, do security testing, and build guardrails to ensure shipping of secure software. You will have an opportunity to learn how security integrates with the Affirm Software development life cycle and make contributions which will have a broader impact.
We are excited to meet curious and motivated students for our 12-16 week internship. We are a dynamic organization that is happy to tailor projects to your skills, and we will work with you throughout the interview process to determine which team will be best for you.
What You'll Do
Interns are responsible for researching and building a solution that raises the security bar in the software development life-cycle. Because things are changing fast at Affirm, security teams need to keep innovating on how to integrate into upcoming Affirm products and evaluate their security posture. You will be working on a project that enables continuous security feedback early into the software development cycle and helps teams create secure software.

• You will get to understand how security issues occur in different environments, evaluate business risks they impose. You will get to research, design and build solutions for interesting and complex security problems that arise in fast paced software development environments.
• We pair interns with a dedicated mentor who will be by your side to give advice and ensure the success of your project. Expect to meet with them on a regular basis and receive feedback.
• There are opportunities to attend events with other interns and full-time Affirmers! Past events have included virtual cooking classes, executive fireside chats, cable car trolley tours, and Giants games.
• Interns present their work to the entire engineering organization at the end of the internship.

What We Look For

• Passion and dedication to changing consumer banking for the better
• Curious and motivated learner: University enrolled student who has experience or interest in application security, security testing, and secure software development
• Strong communication skills
• Experience with Python, Java, or other object oriented programing language
• Analyze information and evaluate results to choose the best solution to effectively solve challenges
• Develop scripts to automate routine tasks
• AWS or other PaaS frameworks

Location - Remote U.S.
Grade - Intern
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Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company ! The majority of our roles are remote and can be located anywhere in the U.S. and Canada (with the exception of the U.S. Territories, Quebec, Yukon, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories) unless the job indicates a different global location. We are currently building operations in Spain, Poland, and Australia. Employees in remote roles have the option of working remotely or from an Affirm office in their country of hire, and may occasionally travel to an Affirm office or elsewhere for required meetings or team-building events. Our offices in Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and Toronto will remain operational and accessible for anyone to use on a voluntary basis, subject to local COVID-19 guidelines.
All full-time jobs at Affirm (excluding interns and apprentices) are tied to a transparent grade-based pay range taking location into account.
[Colorado Candidates] In accordance with Colorado's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act , the grade for this position in Colorado is listed above. You can find the Colorado base pay range and benefits here .
If you got this far, we hope you're feeling excited about this role. Even if you don't feel you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We're eager to meet people who believe in Affirm's mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways-not just candidates who check all the boxes.
Inclusivity:
At Affirm, People Come First is one of our core values, and that's why diversity and inclusion are vital to our priorities as an equal opportunity employer. You can read about our D&I program here and our progress thus far in our 2021 DEI Report .
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