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By offering seamless, immersive access to ASX and Wall St, we’ve empowered a new wave of investors. Today, we have 750,000+ customers and more than A$8B under administration. Join us as we continue to reshape the financial industry, inspire investor confidence and unleash the investor in everyone.\nAbout the role\nWe are looking for a Senior Security Engineer to join our Technology team in Sydney.\nSecurity is a force multiplier at Stake. We work alongside Engineering, Product and Infrastructure to build security into everything we create, helping teams move quickly while protecting our customers, platform and business. Rather than acting as a gatekeeper, we enable engineers to build secure, resilient systems with confidence.\nAs a Senior Security Engineer, you'll combine deep software engineering expertise with strong security judgement to shape how secure software is built across Stake. You'll lead complex, high-impact initiatives that span multiple teams, influence architectural decisions early and establish the standards, tooling and practices that make security scalable. Your work will improve developer experience while strengthening our security posture as the business continues to grow.\nThis is an opportunity to shape the future of secure engineering at one of Australia's fastest-growing technology companies. You'll partner closely with Engineering, Infrastructure, Risk and Compliance leaders, influencing decisions that balance customer protection, engineering velocity and long-term business outcomes. We work hybrid spending 3 days in our beautiful, dog-friendly Sydney office.\nWhat success looks like\nOver the next two years, you will:\nDefine and evolve the secure engineering practices that become the default across Stake's technology organisation.\nLead complex application security initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams, improving the resilience of our applications, infrastructure and software development lifecycle.\nInfluence architecture and technical design decisions early, helping teams solve difficult security challenges without slowing delivery.\nBuild security tooling, automation and guardrails that enable engineers to identify and resolve risks before they reach production.\nRaise the security capability of the engineering organisation through mentoring, practical guidance and secure engineering education.\nStrengthen Stake's ability to detect, respond to and learn from security incidents across customer-facing and internal systems.\nPartner with Engineering, Infrastructure, Risk and Compliance to make pragmatic security decisions that support both innovation and regulatory obligations.\nBecome a trusted technical leader whose judgement shapes how Stake approaches secure software engineering at scale.\nYou'll thrive here if…\nYou've led complex application security initiatives across multiple engineering teams and enjoy solving broad technical challenges through influence.\nYou have deep experience in application security, secure software engineering and modern cloud-native architectures.\nYou're comfortable shaping technical direction, establishing engineering standards and influencing decisions without relying on formal authority.\nYou balance pragmatism with a high security bar, making thoughtful trade-offs that protect customers while enabling teams to move quickly.\nYou enjoy mentoring engineers, sharing knowledge and raising the security capability of the wider organisation.\nYou communicate complex technical risks clearly and build trusted relationships across Engineering, Product and Infrastructure.\nBonus if you've ever\nDefined secure engineering standards or application security strategy for a growing technology company.\nBuilt internal security platforms, developer tooling or DevSecOps automation at scale.\nLed security reviews for distributed systems, cloud-native platforms or highly available production environments.\nWorked in fintech, financial services or another highly regulated technology environment.\nSupported security frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOC 2 or the Essential Eight.\nBenefits of working at Stake\nYou'll have the opportunity to work with autonomy while learning from some of the best talent in the industry, playing a meaningful role in building a company that has loads of positive momentum and excitement around it. Having said that, we also have perks. Please see on our Careers website the list of benefits under ourGrow with Stake program.\nProfessional development allowance\nUp to 16 weeks of paid parental leave\nChildcare allowance\nWellbeing support\nAnnual leave swap days\nDiscretionary performance bonus\nStake products: SMSF 30% discount on yearly membership fee, $295 AUD annual trading credit and Stake Black account\nSo what happens next?\nOnce we've received your application, we'll give it the attention it deserves and if we think you’d be a good addition to our team, we’ll give you a call and from there, you'll cruise through our recruitment process.\nTo all recruitment agencies: Stake does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or directly to Stake employees. 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