Security Engineer

Beacon Platform was founded in 2014 by Kirat Singh and Mark Higgins, industry leaders in building and designing enterprise-scale trading, analytics, and risk management platforms. Our products enable financial institutions of all sizes to operationalize front-office development at enterprise scale on the cloud. The Platform consists of Beacon Front Office Suite for cross-asset management of trades, positions and risk, and Beacon Core, an integrated development and operating platform that enables quants and software engineers to collaboratively develop and continuously deploy business solutions. Beacon’s open architecture and transparent source-code model empower clients to achieve their business goals while maintaining unparalleled ownership of the full technology stack.

Position Overview

We are looking for an experienced Security Engineer with a development background to join Beacon's Security Team. You get to work alongside our Core and Platform teams, and apply their domain principles while cementing security of Beacon Platform as just another baseline feature.

You understand how code, cloud, systems and services work, having worked with and maintained all of them. You also know how to secure them, and what it takes to keep things usable. Beacon Platform is an integrated development and runtime environment, so you will get to build the machinery to make it seamlessly secure.

What You’ll Do

• Apply solid engineering and automation practices to ensure security is an integral part of Beacon’s development workflow
• Build software and tooling to continuously improve security everywhere at Beacon
• Infuse the expectation of secure-by-default into everything you come in contact with
• Harden our stack and make the process visible for all of our users
• Share your knowledge, help and mentor others, and allow them to rely on themselves

What We’re Looking For

• Good understanding of systems, cloud and software security
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in systems and software engineering
• Intimately familiar with Linux, comfortable with orchestration runtimes
• At home with Agile development, DevOps mentality and Continuous Delivery
• Happy with Python and Go, but always ready to pick up the right tool for the job
• Ability to work in a creative, fast-paced environment
• Constant drive for usability
• A degree in CS is preferable, but not strictly necessary

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Solid Software Engineering skills
• Experience in securing software and its development
• Familiarity with cloud pentesting
• You don't impose on others - you enable them
• Pragmatism and humility
• You know when to roll up your sleeves (and when not)
• Personal experience on what engineering-first approach feels like

What You’ll Love About Beacon

• Unlimited PTO - This isn’t your typical unlimited PTO plan. All employees take at least 20 days off a year. After that? Take the time off you need to strike the perfect work/life balance for you.
• 10 paid company holidays
• 401k match
• Charitable donation match
• Access to Udemy - An online learning and teaching marketplace with over 185,000 courses. Learn programming, marketing, data science, or brush up on your public speaking and writing skills.
• Startup Culture - Our employees have a voice and can make a big impact across the organization. A lot of people in large companies don’t feel connected to what they’re doing and feel like they’re put in a box. Here you will have the freedom to be creative and innovative. We’re looking for smart and driven people to help get us to the next level.

Beacon does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Beacon encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled, protected veterans and all other qualified applicants.

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