Data Security Engineer - Remote

Company Description

PayNearMe develops award-winning technology to facilitate the end-to-end customer payment experience, making it easy for businesses to manage and accept payments. The company enables more ways to pay by offering all major payment types and channels in a single platform. PayNearMe is the technology company that’s changing how payments are made.

We are a diverse and collaborative company that loves to delight its customers (merchants, consumers, etc.) with simple, useful and practical product/service offerings. PayNearMe has over 200 employees, closed a $45M Series D round in June 2023, and is processing over $1B in payments monthly. We’re headquartered in Silicon Valley with our employees distributed all across the US. Help us reimagine payments!

We’re in growth mode and looking to add a dynamic Data Security Engineer reporting to our Director, Information Security Engineering.

Job Description

• Proactively identify and address data security concerns while fostering a culture of data security awareness within the organization.
• Collaborate with the Data, Legal, and Audit Teams to ensure data security controls align with data governance frameworks, principles, classification models and labeling.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive data security strategy aligned with industry best practices, regulatory requirements, data security policies, procedures and standards..
• Recommend data security controls for integration into data lifecycle management processes while staying up-to-date on the latest security threats and trends.
• Monitor and manage data access controls and ensure appropriate authorization is granted.
• Evaluate, recommend data security technology tools to configure and manage data security infrastructure, including access control systems, data loss prevention (DLP) solutions, and other data-related security tools.
• Effectively collaborate and communicate data security risks and best practices to various stakeholders, business leaders, engineering teams, while implementing data security measures.
• Assist with security audits and penetration testing when appropriate.
• Participate and/or conduct data security risk assessments and identify vulnerabilities.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in data security and/or information security.
• Proven experience in developing and implementing data governance principles, frameworks, data security policies, procedures, and standards.
• Expertise in data security technologies and tools, including access control, DLP, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.
• Experience working with data classification and labeling systems.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Up-to-date knowledge of industry best practices and regulatory requirements for data security.
• Experience with specific data security regulations, such as PCI, NYDFS, CCPA, ISO, NIST and/or SoX.
• Experience with cloud security and data security in the cloud environment.
• Preferred 4 year degree information technology, engineering, or information security
• Preferred experience working in a financial industry or fintech company.
• Preferred security certifications such as the following:
  • ISC2 (CISSP, CC, CCSP) 
  • ISACA (CISA, CISM, CDPSE), CCSP
  • Other relevant security certification(s)

Bonus: Programming experience (e.g., SQL, bash, powershell, Ruby on Rails, Golang).

Additional Information

Benefits

• Base salary per year (paid semi-monthly)
• Fast- paced and professional work culture
• Stock options with standard startup vesting - 1 year cliff; 4 years total
• $50 monthly communication expense stipend to go towards your phone/internet bill
• $250 stipend to enhance your WFH setup
• Reimbursement for peripheral equipment: monitor (up to $400), keyboard and mouse (up to $200)
• Premium medical benefits including vision and dental (100% coverage for employees)
• Company-sponsored life and disability insurance
• Paid parental bonding leave
• Paid sick leave, jury duty, bereavement
• 401k plan
• Flexible Time Off (our team members typically take off ~3-4 weeks per year)
• Volunteer Time Off
• 13 scheduled holidays
• 2x / year in-person team meet-ups (2-3 days, company paid)

Salary Range: $130,000 - $160,000

PayNearMe strives to create a workplace where all employees thrive. Our core values represent who we are today and we take pride in the way we work with each othe