Senior Engineer, Security

Responsibilities: Fix it, don't just find it: Remediate security findings across our infrastructure, writing the Terraform and application changes that close them. Where the fix belongs to another team, drive it to completion. Run vulnerability management from Snyk, Prowler, and ASV findings through to verified fixes. Own AWS security : Cloud posture across IAM and least privilege, network boundaries, secrets management, and logging coverage. Define the technical security baselines new services are built to, covering host hardening, WAF configuration and deployment patterns, and enforce them as code. Find problems before anyone else does : Regular penetration testing against our own environment, ahead of the formal annual assessment carried out by our external testers. Threat modelling and security review for new services early enough to change the design, including our integrations with payment and custody providers. Respond when it matters : Serve as technical lead for security incidents, including forensic investigation. Own and improve detection coverage in Datadog, tuning alerts for signals. What you need Five or more years in hands‑on security engineering, with responsibility for production systems. You write and ship code. Terraform and Python, and enough application fluency to fix what you find rather than hand it off. Deep AWS security experience, including IAM and least privilege at organization scale, and container workloads in ECS or EKS.Application security, including threat modelling and hands‑on offensive testing against cloud and application targets. Security incident response, including forensic investigation. You have run vulnerability management and driven fixes through teams you do not manage; you work the finding queue on your own initiative, without being chased. You have worked in a regulated environment and turned ISO 27001, PCI DSS, or SOC 2 requirements into engineering work. Detection engineering in Datadog, or a comparable SIEM.Securing CI/CD pipelines, particularly GitHub Actions. Cryptography and secrets management in practice, including key rotation and certificate lifecycle. Using AI coding tools to remediate at scale, and reviewing AI-generated code with a security eye Experience with payments, cards, or digital assets.

About Us: We're building the world's leading cross‑border fintech for emerging markets - empowering families, fuelling local economies, and changing how millions access financial services. Since our launch in 2019, we have transformed how money moves across borders with our operations spanning 6 out of 7 continents and covering both the busiest and most underserved (remittance) corridors. We tapped into a massive shift - from banks to phones - bringing digital finance to places where traditional systems never reached. The next stage of growth will fuel a network of services and products especially designed to make money more accessible to diaspora communities including local cards, and additional savings and payments features. We're growing fast, backed by world‑class investors, and scaling a product that blendsreal world impact with cutting edge fintech innovation .Here's a little more:

• Founded by Harvard grads and 3‑time founderswho previously built Segovia (acquired) and Give
• Directly (>$300M revenue, fastest‑growing NGO in the world)
• Backed by top investorsincluding Spark Capital, Canaan, Reid Hoffman, Breyer Capital, Unbound, Wamda, and more
• Built by global top performersfrom Bain, Google, McKinsey, Uber, Checkout, Bolt, and beyond - we move fast, stay humble, and care deeply about our mission
• Truly global team- 250+ people, 50+ nationalities, 50+ languages
• Guided by our values- ownership, impact, humility, and heart - in deed, not just word
• Taptap Values

Note: we recognize imposter syndrome is real - any candidate that does not perfectly fit every characteristic of this role is still strongly encouraged to apply.