Staff Security Engineer

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

TBD is looking for a passionate Staff Security Engineer who is excited to jump in and help drive security engineering efforts. We are looking for individuals that have hands-on experience securing the payment process. You should have a natural sense of curiosity, a propensity for action, and a collaborative and diplomatic approach to problem solving. You will also work cross functionally with engineering teams to architect security solutions. 

You Will:

• Respond to all security incidents and manage end-to-end incident response lifecycle
• Implement security technical and process improvements
• Implement automation for security tasks such as audit, metrics collection, and reporting
• Maintain strong awareness of events in the external community to identify threats and opportunities for enhancement.
• Conduct security architecture reviews and make recommendations
• Evaluate, test, implement and support third party security too
• Monitor active threats, analyze them and come up with a remediation plan.
• Monitor, Audit, Detect and Remediate critical Security exposures in Infrastructure

Qualifications

You Have:

• 8+ years of security engineering experience
• A desire to help build secure products, not just poke holes in it. 
• Experience advising product teams on how to address a broad set of security and privacy challenges
• Experience shipping code in consumer-facing products
• Knowledge of any scripting languages like: Python, Perl, Rust etc…
• Understanding of cryptography fundamentals (experience with bitcoin is a plus but not a requirement
• Experience in the financial services industry is preferred. 

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 - USD $329,500
Zone C: USD $269,600 - USD $329,500
Zone D: USD $269,600 - USD $329,500

To find a location’s zone designation, please refer to this resource. If a location of interest is not listed, please speak with a recruiter for additional information. 

Benefits include the following:

• Healthcare coverage
• Retirement Plans including company match 
• Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Wellness programs, including access to mental health, 1:1 financial planners, and a monthly wellness allowance 
• Paid parental and caregiving leave
• Paid time off
• Learning and Development resources
• Paid Life insurance, AD&D. and disability benefits 
• Perks such as WFH reimbursements and free access to caregiving, legal, and discounted resources 

This role is also eligible to participate in Block's equity plan subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies, and may be eligible for a sign-on bonus. Sales roles may be eligible to participate in a commission plan subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies. Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.

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