Staff Software Security Engineer, TBD

Company Description

Founded in July 2021, TBD is one of Block's four business units, alongside Square, Cash App, and TIDAL.  At TBD, we believe in a decentralized future that returns ownership and control over your finances, data, and identity. Guided by this vision, TBD is building an open source platform and developer infrastructure that enables everyone to access and participate in the global economy.

TBD is inviting the world to join us in building and adopting open and decentralized technologies that solve real problems for real people — from next generation infrastructure that lowers the cost of global payments and enables frictionless commerce, to decentralized identity technologies that enable anyone to access and participate in the global economy.  Our mission advances economic empowerment through the power of decentralized solutions, built open source and collaboratively.

The offerings we build will provide developers, institutions, and individuals with the capabilities needed to build the next wave of innovative apps and services, and access this decentralized future.  We’re leveraging bitcoin and other decentralized technologies to reinvent the global financial system in an open and permissionless way to further Block’s mission of economic empowerment, with a global focus.

Job Description

As Staff Information Security Engineer for TBD, you will be responsible for ensuring TBD’s security enables innovation and meets the foundational standards of Block. In this role you will collaboratively lead engineering efforts in concert with engineers, finance, operations, design and product, and other cross-functional team members to ensure that our organization remains secure and is leading the way for our consumers that interact with our product. As the very first security engineer hired for TBD you will lead to lay the foundation for our fintech product. 

You will:

• Build innovative security solutions throughout the TBD business.
• Work with product and foundational teams to establish and communicate security and privacy posture that balances risk with growth across programs designed to help TBD scale.
• Identify, measure, and report on security and privacy risks for TBD
• Work with partner teams both inside and outside of our Security organization as you work through security design of operational procedures.
• Direct our leaders and Engineering teams in prioritizing roadmap items in order to balance security and business risks
• Foster a security culture throughout TBD focused on enablement and an understanding of what it takes to develop great products
• Identify cross-cutting security concerns and lead in the development of common solutions and infrastructure
• Be hands on with engineering solutions that help set the foundation for TBD security

Qualifications

You Have:

• 7+ years of experience developing production software and critical services
• 3+ years of experience establishing and scaling security practices in modern technology company environments with a combination of application security, cloud security architecture, risk/policy/compliance engineering, IAM, or engineering operations.
• Deep technical understanding of security vulnerabilities and risks, as well as countermeasures and compensating controls
• Experience supporting engineering teams and leaders with security architecture review, threat modeling, and security roadmap development.
• Broad knowledge of security challenges and mitigations, exposure to compliance engineering and regulatory processes, and empathy for the difficulties of product development.
• Demonstrable experience influencing executive leadership and able to communicate with audiences at every level and in every role within the company.
• Experience working on early stage products and are comfortable handling ambiguity with humility.
• Willingness to get hands on in implementing solutions
• Strong business sense, with entrepreneurial or startup experience preferred
• Extensive experience in product development, strategy, and market research
• Ability to collaborate effectively with senior business leaders and product and engineering team
• Demonstrable ability to write code/script (any language will do)
• Ideally previous experience working with fintech organizations

Additional Information

Block takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. U.S. locations are categorized into one of four zones based on a cost of labor index for that geographic area. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Zone A: USD $269,600 - USD $329,500
Zone B: USD $269,600 -