Hybrid Senior Security Engineer

Posted 2 weeks ago

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About the role

  • Design and own mission‑critical authentication and authorization services that keep Shipt secure and seamless.
  • Build and evolve secure, scalable IAM capabilities—SSO, MFA, token services, policy, and role management—integrating platforms like Auth0 and Okta with our applications and API Gateway.
  • Collaborate closely with Security, Infrastructure, and Product engineering teams to drive best practices, reliability, and a great developer experience.
  • Set the bar for code quality and operational excellence through clear designs, thoughtful documentation, and hands‑on mentorship.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of software development experience delivering and operating production services.
  • Ownership of mission‑critical systems, including support for incident response and production troubleshooting.
  • Strong grasp of REST principles and API design; experience with service‑oriented/microservice architectures and distributed systems.
  • Practical expertise in IAM: designing authn/authz flows; token‑based auth (OAuth/JWT); SSO and MFA; secure session and policy/role management.
  • Hands‑on with identity platforms such as Auth0 and/or Okta, integrating identity with diverse applications and services.
  • Proficiency with modern stacks and tooling, e.g., Go, JavaScript, Terraform, and operational tooling for deploy/monitoring.
  • Data and systems fundamentals: modeling complex persisted data; performance tuning of code and database queries.
  • Familiarity with storage and messaging (e.g., Postgres, Redis, Kafka) and effective caching patterns.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to simplify complex ideas and produce clear design docs/runbooks.
  • Collaborative and mentoring mindset: generous with code reviews, eager to learn and to coach peers; results‑driven and pragmatic.
  • Passion for continual learning and building reliable, high‑performance, secure systems that enable our engineers and delight our users.

Benefits

  • Employees (and eligible family members) are covered by medical, dental, vision and more.
  • Employees may enroll in our company’s 401k plan.
  • Employees will also be eligible to receive discretionary vacation for exempt team members.
  • Paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
  • Paid sick leave.
  • Other compensation includes eligibility for an annual bonus and the potential for restricted stock units based on role.

Job title

Senior Security Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$93,000 - $187,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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