ABOUT HIGHNOTE

Founded in 2020 by a team of leaders from Braintree, PayPal, and Lending Club, Highnote is an all in one card issuer processor and program management platform. We give digital-first organizations the flexibility to easily issue and process payment cards that accelerate business growth and profitability.
We’ve raised $104M+ and grown our team to 120+ employees. Headquartered in San Francisco, we’ve managed to build one of the most advanced payments teams in the industry, with team members in 25+ US states.
Operating through our core values of customer obsession, executional excellence, intentional inclusion, we’re helping businesses grow for the future by creating the payment products demanded by tomorrow, with the ability to solve for use cases that don’t exist yet.
We are fast-moving, hands-on, and strongly believe everyone deserves a seat at the table. We believe we’re unlocking incredible opportunities that can change the future of payments, as long as we have the right people to make it happen.

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a Senior Security Engineer to lead the overall security efforts at Highnote. It’s an opportunity to take all your prior security experience and learnings, work with engineering leadership and various teams to improve security, and most importantly, be an evangelist for security across the company. Ideal candidates should have similar experience with early-stage companies.

BONUS SKILLS

• Experience in the financial payments technology space
• Experience with SpringBoot, Kubernetes and Istio
• Experience with big data technologies, such as BigQuery

WHY HIGHNOTE?

• We’re a startup that allows for our employees to truly build from the ground up and impact every layer of our organization.
• We’re a team of payments obsessed individuals. While some of us come from the fintech world, some of us don’t. We value the varied backgrounds and the diverse perspectives of our employees.
• We’re small on hierarchy and big on growth. We’re a flat organization that allows everyone to have direct exposure to our leadership team. We are looking for builders who thrive in ambiguity.
• We’re backed by Oak HC/FT, Costanoa Ventures, and XYZ Ventures. Angel Investors include Bill Ready (CEO at Pinterest) and Renaud Laplanche (Co-Founder & CEO of Upgrade).

• Refine and execute the overall security strategy
• Drive to and maintain security policies and processes
• Own various compliance programs such as PCI-DSS, SOC1/2, and GDPR
• Own and drive application and web security initiatives, ensuring industry best practices
• Serve as a security consultant in design discussions and reviews
• Drive secure coding and SDLC initiatives
• Manage penetration testing efforts and bug bounty programs
• Evaluate various technologies for improving security defenses and monitoring
• Integrate security controls across cloud-native and third-party tools
• Own infrastructure and vendor security audits
• Work with the infrastructure team on securing GCP, AWS, and On-Premise Colos
• Implementing security best practices across Kubernetes and Istio
• Own security incident response and related systems