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Senior Security Engineer, GenSec
GoodleapSan Francisco, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 11 Mar 2026
About the role
About GoodLeap:GoodLeap is a technology company delivering best-in-class financing and software products for sustainable solutions, from solar panels and batteries to energy-efficient HVAC, heat pumps, roofing, windows, and more. Over 1 million homeowners have benefited from our simple, fast, and frictionless technology that makes the adoption of these products more affordable, accessible, and easier to understand. Thousands of professionals deploying home efficiency and solar solutions rely on GoodLeap’s proprietary, AI-powered applications and developer tools to drive more transparent customer communication, deeper business intelligence, and streamlined payment and operations. Our platform has led to more than $30 billion in financing for sustainable solutions since 2018. GoodLeap is also proud to support our award-winning nonprofit, GivePower, which is building and deploying life-saving water and clean electricity systems, changing the lives of more than 1.6 million people across Africa, Asia, and South America.
Position Summary The GoodLeap security team is responsible for both business enablement and safeguarding the organization’s information assets; it is involved in virtually all aspects of the business, from product safety and resilience, to building security paved roads, customer, partner, and regulatory trust, managing technology governance and compliance, and ensuring the privacy, and safety of GoodLeap’s customers, partners, and employees information.
The senior security engineer role provides a unique opportunity to shape the security and resilience of GoodLeap corporate systems, services, and operational processes. In this role, you will work closely with product, engineering, IT, and business teams within GoodLeap, acting as the key individual with both the authority and responsibility to ensure the safety and resilience of enterprise systems, products, and services.
Your oversight will encompass: - Enterprise systems:Identifying potential misuse and abuse cases, proposing solutions to address these scenarios, and identifying product features, configuration settings, and/or mitigating or compensating controls to meet resilience requirements. - Build-time controls: Managing applications/products security controls and activities during development. - Runtime controls: Overseeing security measures at runtime, from prevention to detection and response.
Additionally, you will be involved with aspects of internally built products and represent all areas of security, spanning governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) to security monitoring, for a number of departments/teams. You will also have the authority and ability to involve other security team members as needed.
While you will take on multiple responsibilities—from advisor to builder and beyond—your primary focus will be designing and building security patterns and practices for services and processes, and fostering strong relationships with product, business, and engineering.
Position Summary The GoodLeap security team is responsible for both business enablement and safeguarding the organization’s information assets; it is involved in virtually all aspects of the business, from product safety and resilience, to building security paved roads, customer, partner, and regulatory trust, managing technology governance and compliance, and ensuring the privacy, and safety of GoodLeap’s customers, partners, and employees information.
The senior security engineer role provides a unique opportunity to shape the security and resilience of GoodLeap corporate systems, services, and operational processes. In this role, you will work closely with product, engineering, IT, and business teams within GoodLeap, acting as the key individual with both the authority and responsibility to ensure the safety and resilience of enterprise systems, products, and services.
Your oversight will encompass: - Enterprise systems:Identifying potential misuse and abuse cases, proposing solutions to address these scenarios, and identifying product features, configuration settings, and/or mitigating or compensating controls to meet resilience requirements. - Build-time controls: Managing applications/products security controls and activities during development. - Runtime controls: Overseeing security measures at runtime, from prevention to detection and response.
Additionally, you will be involved with aspects of internally built products and represent all areas of security, spanning governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) to security monitoring, for a number of departments/teams. You will also have the authority and ability to involve other security team members as needed.
While you will take on multiple responsibilities—from advisor to builder and beyond—your primary focus will be designing and building security patterns and practices for services and processes, and fostering strong relationships with product, business, and engineering.
Essential Job Duties & Responsibilities
- Lead, participate in, and contribute to partnerships between security, IT, General & Administrative teams, engineering, product, and operations teams to build, orchestrate, and automate security controls and services in GoodLeap enterprise systems, products, services, and operational processes.
- Identify potential misuse and abuse cases in enterprise systems, propose solutions to address these scenarios, and identify product features, configuration settings, and/or mitigating or compensating controls to meet resilience requirements.
- Support or develop components of the security analytics platform.
- Contribute to investigations, threat hunting, and incident response activities in a supporting role.
- Collaborate with the monitoring and response team to create playbooks for specific incident response scenarios related to the products and services you oversee. These investigations, incidents, and playbooks may address security, fraud, privacy, resilience, and related concerns.
- Support the security operations team with the vulnerability management lifecycle for products and services under your purview.
- Ensure technical alignment for the products and services you oversee with team initiatives, including GRC, security operations, and monitoring and response activities.
Required Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
- Strong communicator with the ability to lead technical architecture discussions, drive technical decisions, and effectively communicate with non-technical audiences.
- Expertise in agile product lifecycles. Ideally, you have experience in a product manager or engineering manager role and understand how SaaS products (B2B, B2B2C, and B2C) are
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