Security Engineer II (Application)

We are seeking a Security Engineer II to join our Application Security team. The Application Security team enables NerdWallet’s mission, to provide clarity for all of life’s financial decisions, by taking steps to ensure the products and services we design and build safeguard our user’s data and trust.

In this role, you can expect to partner with technical teams across the company, executing on initiatives that mitigate risk and prevent harm to user trust throughout the lifecycle of products. You’ll have the opportunity to mature the tools, workflows, and standards that lead to secure software coding practices, while providing a phenomenal developer experience and empowering partners to take ownership of the security posture of their products.

The right candidate will be eager to help engineers secure their software, have a desire to empower developers, and be a terrific collaborator maturing our security posture in meaningful ways. If you would like to develop your security skills in a supportive environment and contribute to maturing an organization’s security program, we encourage you to apply!

This role will report to a Business Information Security Officer.

If you were here 6 months ago, here are some things you might have worked on: 

• Designed and Implemented a secret scanner in the CI/CD
• Helped triage and respond to security events and findings identified by various application security tools
• Rolled out a Content-Security-Policy response header for various applications

Where you can make an impact: 

• Help scale our application security program through automation and developer empowerment
• Influence engineering and product partners to remediate security gaps across multiple functional areas while balancing company and security needs
• Build tools and processes to drive greater security posture visibility for leadership
• Review developer pull requests for adherence to security best practices
• Support operational work in response to security incidents

You are:

• Familiar with industry standards, risk mitigation techniques, and new developments within application security, e.g. OWASP Top 10
• Pragmatic in your approach to reducing risk in a manner that incorporates business and product needs that balances time and risk reduction
• Asking questions, seeking guidance, and soliciting feedback when clarification is needed about assigned work or discussion topics
• Continuously training to understand application security fundamentals and goals for a company 
• Committed to fostering a respectful, blameless, and collaborative work environment and are receptive to constructive feedback from peers and mentors

Your experience:

We recognize not everyone will meet all of the criteria. If you meet most of the criteria below and you’re excited about the opportunity and willing to learn, we’d love to hear from you.

• 2+ years of experience in a professional application security engineering role and experience developing software deployed in a cloud environment, especially AWS
• Identified, triaged, and remediated security vulnerabilities
• Proficient in Python
• Comfortable reading JavaScript
• Comfort with learning new languages as needed

Where:

• This role is remote, based in the U.S.
• We believe great work can be done anywhere. No matter where you are based, NerdWallet offers benefits and perks to support the physical, financial, and emotional well being of you and your family

What we offer:

Work Hard, Stay Balanced (Life’s a series of balancing acts, eh?)

• Industry-leading medical, dental, and vision health care plans for employees and their dependents
• Rejuvenation Policy – Flexible Time Off + 13 holidays + 4 Mental Health Days Off
• New Parent Leave for employees with a newborn child or a child placed with them for adoption or foster care
• Mental health support through Headspace
• Financial wellness, guidance, and unlimited access to a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) through Northstar 
• Paid sabbatical for Nerds to recharge, gain knowledge and pursue their interests
• Health and Dependent Care FSA and HSA Plan with monthly NerdWallet contribution
• Weekly Virtual Bootcamp, Yoga, and Mindfulness Meditation sessions
• Monthly Wellness Stipend, Cell Phone Stipend, and Wifi Stipend

Have Some Fun! (Nerds are fun, too)

• Nerd-led group initiatives – Intramural Sports, Employee Resource Groups for Parents, Diversity and Inclusion, Women, LGBTQIA, and other communities
• Hackathons, Happy Hou