Who We Are

At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.

We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.

We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.

Our Values

If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.

Who You Are

Justworks is looking for an experienced, hands-on Senior Security Engineer who can help drive the company’s Security Architecture & Engineering function. We are looking for a versatile candidate who can lean into multiple security domains including, but not limited to cloud, application security, IAM, and data protection. This person will also collaborate across the Security department by working closely with and supporting our Security Operation and GRC functions. 

An ideal candidate has a proven track record of building security solutions to enhance security, and managing company security postures. . Given this hands-on technical role, you should be comfortable coding in  Ruby on Rails, Go, JavaScript or other similar languages. We would also prefer that you have experience operating in a Linux environment and proficiency using common cybersecurity tools. 

Your Success Profile

What You Will Work On

• Evaluate existing security controls and identify opportunities to enhance the security posture of Justworks
• Responsible for Exposure Management which includes, but is not limited to vulnerability management, misconfiguration management, end-of-life management and bug bounty program. 
• Improve our security posture through strengthening vulnerability scanning, penetration testing and exposure remediation. Be the SME for all scanning tools and exposure management platforms.
• Implement security capabilities in SaaS and IAAS (i.e. AWS, GCP, Azure etc.) and enterprise environments while executing and delivering the security roadmap. 
• Support the overall Justworks Security organization across multiples domains such as cloud infrastructure, application security, identity and access management, data protection, Security Operations and GRC (Governance, Risks and Compliance)
• Work crossfunctionally with technology teams to implement security capabilities into solution architecture.
• Conduct threat modeling and security design reviews of major product development projects to ensure appropriate security controls are built into systems prior to production cutover.
• Drive process improvement and control implementation projects in coordination with the larger Digital Technology team at Justworks.
• Act as a cross-functional tools and services expert, working with engineering,risk and security operations teams to build security control requirements

How You Will Do Your Work

As a Senior Security Engineer, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following:

• Good judgment - the exercise of critical thinking, analyzing and assessing problems and implications, identifying patterns, making connections of underlying issues, understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome.
• Resourcefulness - taking a can-do approach, even in the face of obstacles and constraints by assessing what’s in front of you and effectively and efficiently optimizing what you have, whether it's working on something new or thinking about how to do something better.
• Teamwork and communication - putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism.
• Influence and leadership - fostering a community of knowledge-sharing, collaboration, mentorship, and forward-thinking.
• Skills and knowledge - the capacity to actively learn and apply specific domain knowledge, know-how, and best practices to continually enhance and