Senior Security Engineer

About the role:

Forter has a complex set of cloud applications and infrastructure with petabytes of sensitive data flowing through numerous data stores and thousands of cloud compute instances providing logic for real-time decision-making. Securing this system in a way that makes the perimeter and the internals safe from sophisticated attackers, satisfies its customers, and still provides the engineers with a smooth development experience is a world-class challenge. 

The Security Team’s mission is to help design secure products, features, infrastructure and platforms from the very start while engaging with every engineering team. The team also develops security features to add to Forter’s infrastructure, choosing and deploying external security tools to complement its abilities where needed.

Why should you join us?

• We have a team combining security architecture and hands-on development skills,  engaged closely with all of Forter’s engineering, right in the middle of all the interesting changes taking place as the company grows and expands. We make a lot of impact beyond security and we grow our people.

What you'll be doing:     

• Lead projects with multiple engineering teams to introduce next generation security designs and features into Forter applications and cloud infrastructure, to meet business requirements and prevent external attacks.
• Represent the Security Team as point of contact and source of knowledge, in Design Review meetings and sessions with Security Champions across Engineering.
• Improve the company’s security standing by developing secure platform features, security tooling and integrations.
• Improve our internal security products and features in areas such as identity and access management, key and secret management, security monitoring, production machine access, and cloud security posture management.

 Who are you?:    

• 6+ years of experience developing secure products or security features
• 3+ years of experience working with public clouds (AWS preferred but GCP and Azure acceptable)
• Experience with complex software projects (Python, NodeJS, Java etc.) 
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools (Cloudformation, Terraform etc.) 
• Extensive knowledge of every layer of the cloud software stack (Hardware, OS, Containers, Network, Application,Database, Storage etc.) 
• Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production
• Fluent written and spoken English, excellent listening and presentation skills
• Experience leading cross-team efforts (champion an idea, get buy-in, reach widespread adoption)

We would especially love to hear if you:

• Have experience with security design, threat modeling, and performing security audits.
• Have hands-on experience developing applications over SAAS platforms.
• Have production experience with CNCF technologies like Kubernetes, Prometheus, Vault, Consul, etc.
• Contributed to open-source application security tooling or standards.
• Have experience with certification and compliance programs such as PCI-DSS, SOC II, and ISO27001.

About us:

Digital commerce is built on trust. At every point along the eCommerce journey, businesses must make a critical decision: Can I trust this customer? Answering this simple question accurately and instantly is powerful—it can accelerate revenue growth and strengthen a company’s connection with its customers. How do we do it? Forter was founded on the insight that it's not about what is being purchased, nor where— but who is behind the interaction.

The Forter Decision Engine finds patterns across more than one billion identities in our dataset. We isolate fraudsters and protect customers—ensuring everyone gets the experience they deserve.  Given that trust is central to how we operate, Forter is very much driven by a defined set of values. We attract remarkable talent and have retention and engagement levels that are well above benchmarks. We’re meticulous about strengthening our culture as we grow and ensuring this is an environment where people can have outsized impact. 

Trust is backed by data –  Forter is a recipient of over 10 workplace and innovation awards, including: 

• Great Place to Work Certification (2021, 2022, 2023)
• Fortune’s Best Workplaces in NYC (2022)
• #3 on Fast Company’s list of “Most Innovative Finance Companies” (2022)
• Forbes Cloud 100 (2021, 2022)
• SAP Pinnacle Awards “New Partner Application Award” (2023) 
• Fintech Breakthrough Awards – Best Fraud Prevention Platform (2023)

Life as a Forterian:

We are a team of over 500 Forterians spread across 3 different continents. Since 2013, we've raised $525 million from investors such as Tiger Global, Bessemer, Sequoia Capital, March Capital and Salesforce Ventures. We're on a mission to bring trust to global digital commerce so that companies like Nordstrom, Priceline, Instacart and ASOS can block fraud, drive revenue and improve customer experience.

At Forter, we believe unique people create unique ideas, and valuable experience comes in many forms. So, even if your background doesn't match everything we have listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply and tell us why your skills and values could be an asset to us. By welcoming different perspectives, we grow together as humans and as a company.

Forter is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that will consider all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetics, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at interviewaccommodation@forter.com. This information will be treated as confidential and used only for the purpose of determining an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.