Job description
About the Engineering Organization:
The Engineering Team at Loop thrives on a balance of agility, consistency, and performance. These pillars empower us to consistently deliver impactful value to our customers. This deep customer understanding fuels our engineering teams to be leaders in our space, bringing innovative ideas to the market.
About the Role:
As a Senior Application Security Engineer at Loop, your primary responsibility will be to ensure the security and integrity of our systems and data. This will involve actively collaborating on security projects, identifying and communicating potential risks, and implementing effective security measures.
You will play a key role in maintaining a secure environment by proactively monitoring and remediating vulnerabilities, responding to security incidents, and conducting regular security audits. You will also participate in engineering team activities, share your expertise, and mentor other team members on security best practices.
Furthermore, you will be a strong advocate for security within the organization, promoting a culture of security awareness and continuously looking for opportunities to improve our security posture.
Our Blended Work Environment:
At Loop, we empower you to do your best work by offering flexibility and choice through our Blended Working Environment. You can choose to work from our HQ office in Columbus, Ohio, join a Hub location with 4+ team members, or remain fully remote. Our team spans the United States, select Canadian provinces (Ontario & British Columbia), and the United Kingdom, allowing you to create a work environment that suits your preferences and lifestyle.
Our Tech Stack:
While Loop utilizes core technologies, the specific tech stack varies across teams. You might encounter technologies such as Vue.js, Node.js, PHP/Laravel, MySQL, DynamoDB, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS Cloud, Gitlab, and Serverless Framework. The security stack consists of Vanta, Sysdig, Cloudflare, and other vulnerability and scanning solutions.
What you’ll do:
- Participate in security projects, delivering secure and well-documented work. Support SOC2 compliance and Pen Testing initiatives.
- Deeply understand how to secure networks, applications, infrastructure, and data. Hands-on expertise in some secure software development lifecycle areas with organizational support needed for others. Provide technical guidance and identify automation opportunities.
- Utilize monitoring and vulnerability scanning tools to identify security concerns within the production environment and systems, remediate findings, or communicate them to the relevant team for triage.
- Quickly learn the team’s tech stack, security tool ecosystem, and environment. Manage security projects independently, escalating when needed. Meet project deadlines and investigate automation opportunities.
- Build relationships with engineers. Give actionable security feedback to developers. Lead security discussions.
- Prioritize security issues based on risk assessments.
- Own and drive security incident response.
Your experience:
- Minimum of 7 years’ combined experience in application development or devops, and security engineering.
- Solid knowledge of common appsec vulnerabilities and their prevention (e.g., OWASP Top 10, SANS Top 25).
- Experience in security testing, including code review, SAST, DAST, and vulnerability scanning.
- Familiarity with incorporating security measures into all phases of software development, from initial concept to final launch including “Shift Left” security.
- Experience with SIEM, WAF, Risk Management Platforms, SAST/DAST or similar security tools.
- Deep understanding of cloud security best practices and challenges, with specific expertise in AWS security services and architectures or equivalent.
- Must be proficient in at least one scripting language (e.g., Python, Bash) to automate security tasks and integrate security tools.
- Skilled in identifying, evaluating, prioritizing, and monitoring the remediation of security vulnerabilities.
- Proven experience in handling security incidents, including identification, containment, and remediation.
- Ability to clearly communicate technical security concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, and to collaborate effectively with development, operations, and other teams.
- Ability to analyze security issues, identify root causes, remediate and/or recommend effective solutions.
$141,600 - $212,400 a year
We know that making decisions about your career and compensation is a huge deal. Because of that, we’re incredibly thoughtful about our compensation strategy. We want you to feel safe and excited, but also comfortable with the compensation package of a startup. We’ve outlined some important information for you here, but please know there’s a lot more to compensation than we can cover in this job posting.
The posted salary range is the base salary for this opportunity. The salary range is subject to change, and may be adjusted in the future.
The actual annual salary paid for this position will be based on several factors, including, but not limited to: your prior experience and skills related to the position, geographic location, company needs, current market demands, and your total compensation goals.
Great humans deserve great benefits. At Loop, you’ll be eligible for benefits such as: medical, dental, and vision insurance, flexible PTO, company holidays, sick & safe leave, parental leave, 401k, monthly wellness benefit, home workstation benefit, phone/internet benefit, and equity.
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Loop Story
In a perfect world, Loop wouldn’t exist. If we had our way, we’d live in a world where we’re mindful about how we consume, we love every product we own, and we sharevalues with the brands who create them. In reality, commerce isn’t perfect and often breaks. Loop creates secondchances.
We’re starting by revolutionizing the post-purchase experience. We’ve taken one of the most fragile commerce interactions - returns - and turned it into something consumers actually love, and that deepens our connection to brands and products.
We take connection seriously on the inside, too. We’re building a work experience that allows you to Be A Human First and prioritizes empathy and wellbeing. We view Loop as a special place in your career to shape the future of an industry and become a better person while doing it. You can grow faster here in a shorter amount of time - we’ll give you space and trust you to fill it.
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