{"id":1455453,"url":"https://alion.io/job/taptap-send-senior-engineer-security","title":"Senior Engineer, Security","company":{"id":7686,"name":"Taptap Send","domain":"taptapsend.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/taptap-send","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":76,"open_postings":13,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.769,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":74,"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"inferred","locations":["New York, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":118000,"max_usd":215000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":234},"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Amazon ECS","optional":false},{"name":"Amazon EKS","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Datadog","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub Actions","optional":false},{"name":"IAM","optional":false},{"name":"ISO 27001","optional":false},{"name":"Least Privilege","optional":false},{"name":"PCI DSS","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Prowler","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"SIEM","optional":false},{"name":"Snyk","optional":false},{"name":"SOC 2","optional":false},{"name":"Spark","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-29T08:55:47Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-29","last_verified_at":"2026-10-02T01:04:11Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"The Role\nWe are looking for a Senior Engineer, Security to join our Platform Engineering team. This is a find-and-fix role. When you find a vulnerability in our infrastructure, you write the Terraform or the application change that closes it. Where the fix belongs to another team, you drive it to completion, with the CISO supporting you.\nYou will report into Platform Engineering and work closely with our CISO, who sets the security agenda and is your escalation route when remediation stalls elsewhere.\nResponsibilities\nFix 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.\n\nOwn 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.\n\nFind 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.\n\nRespond when it matters: Serve as technical lead for security incidents, including forensic investigation. Own and improve detection coverage in Datadog, tuning alerts for signals.\n\nWhat you need\nFive or more years in hands-on security engineering, with responsibility for production systems.\n\nYou write and ship code. Terraform and Python, and enough application fluency to fix what you find rather than hand it off.\n\nDeep AWS security experience, including IAM and least privilege at organization scale, and container workloads in ECS or EKS.\n\nApplication security, including threat modelling and hands-on offensive testing against cloud and application targets.\n\nSecurity incident response, including forensic investigation.\n\nYou 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.\n\nYou have worked in a regulated environment and turned ISO 27001, PCI DSS, or SOC 2 requirements into engineering work.\n\nDetection engineering in Datadog, or a comparable SIEM.\n\nSecuring CI/CD pipelines, particularly GitHub Actions.\n\nCryptography and secrets management in practice, including key rotation and certificate lifecycle.\n\nUsing AI coding tools to remediate at scale, and reviewing AI-generated code with a security eye\n\nExperience with payments, cards, or digital assets.\n\nAbout Us\nWe’re building the world’s leading cross-border fintech for emerging markets - empowering families, fuelling local economies, and changing how millions access financial services.\nSince 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.\nWe’re growing fast, backed by world-class investors, and scaling a product that blends real world impact with cutting edge fintech innovation.\nHere’s a little more:\nFounded by Harvard grads and 3-time founders who previously built Segovia (acquired) and GiveDirectly (>$300M revenue, fastest-growing NGO in the world)\n\nBacked by top investors including Spark Capital, Canaan, Reid Hoffman, Breyer Capital, Unbound, Wamda, and more\n\nBuilt by global top performers from Bain, Google, McKinsey, Uber, Checkout, Bolt, and beyond - we move fast, stay humble, and care deeply about our mission\n\nTruly global team - 250+ people, 50+ nationalities, 50+ languages\n\nGuided by our values - ownership, impact, humility, and heart - in deed, not just word\n\nTaptap Values \nImpact first\nTeam next\nAccept reality\nPropose solutions\nWin with grit\nBe proactively candid, with yourself and others\nLove the particular\nOwn it\nCreate positive energy\nMaybe, even have fun\nTaptap Send is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce. All employment decisions are decided on the basis of qualifications, experience and business need. We strongly encourage applications who are members of underrepresented communities to apply.\nIf you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let us know. Any information you provide us in this respect will only be used to accommodate your requirements.\nNote: we recognize imposter syndrome is real - any candidate that does not perfectly fit every characteristic of this role is still strongly encouraged to apply.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5173,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"},{"name":"New York","iso":null,"kind":"city"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Money Transfer & Remittances"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-29T09:31:20Z"}],"liveness":{"score":63,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.632,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":74,"reasons":["conf:7","stale_co","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/taptap-send-senior-engineer-security","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/taptap-send-senior-engineer-security.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-02T01:32:33Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1867,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3133,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-03T00:00:00Z"}}}