# Senior Software Engineer, Security

About the Role We're hiring our first security engineers. Both report directly to the CTO. We want software engineers with security as their superpower, not security specialists who occasionally write code. The distinction matters here. At our size, the only way one person covers a surface this large is to build things that keep working after they move on. A findings queue you work through by hand grows faster than you can close it. A guardrail in the deployment pipeline doesn't. The work is product and infrastructure security: making the paths that move money hard to attack, and making the secure way to build something also the easy way. The ledger and its write path, card issuing, payouts, and our stablecoin work are the systems that matter most. The job runs in both directions. You'll be in design review early on anything new, and you'll be continuously assessing what we've already shipped, because most of Flex's risk lives in code that exists today. We don't expect you to read the codebase by hand or to keep a findings queue. We expect you to build the automation and repeatable checks that keep assessing it for you, and to spend the time you get back on the golden paths that st

- **Id**: 1289796
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/flex-senior-software-engineer-security-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-08-21T04:26:33Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-08-21
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T19:45:02Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 83
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6985
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Financial Software & Embedded Finance, Money Transfer & Remittances

## Company

- **Id**: 1910712
- **Name**: Flex
- **Domain**: flex.one
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/flex-one>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 79
- **Open postings**: 26
- **Ghost share**: 0.346
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 56
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 170000
- **Max**: 230000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 230000

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SBOM** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Threat Modeling** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: company_stale
- **Days open**: 83

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-26T07:38:02Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1; Filings 12m: 1

## Liveness

- **Score**: 35
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.803
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 83
- **Expected fill days**: 56
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 230000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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