Principal Security Engineer

1 week ago

New York, New York, United States Gusto Full time

About Gusto

Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. Our mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life, and it starts right here at Gusto. We're committed to building a collaborative and inclusive workplace, both physically and virtually.

About the Role

We're seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our Product Security Engineering team. Our team has the unique opportunity to prioritize bold engineering projects across the company to better protect our customers.

The Product Security team helps Gusto move faster, securely. We're a team of engineers who work to enable other teams to build products as quickly as possible while continuing to protect our customers. We help developers ship secure code by building security tools and services, providing security training and expertise, and advocating for best practices in authorization and safe data handling across the company.

Key Responsibilities

  • Improving authorization at scale, with considerations for security, engineering, and operations.
  • Bolstering security in core systems such as access control, sensitive data storage, API design, and more.
  • Building software to keep our customers and company safe and secure.
  • Working on impactful engineering problems across Gusto.
  • Maintaining high uptime for core services.
  • Providing leadership in promoting security and software engineering excellence.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of Software Engineering experience.
  • Experience with and understanding of authorization strategies such as role-based authorization and attribute-based authorization.
  • Experience building high-availability distributed systems and services.
  • Experience with applied cryptography - envelope encryption, AEAD, ECDSA.
  • Experience with Kotlin or Java with a desire to learn server-side Kotlin.
  • Experience with any of these technologies is a plus: Open Policy Agent, GraphQL, gRPC, Google Tink, Kubernetes, Terraform, Traefik.

We mainly use Ruby, Kotlin, and JavaScript/Typescript.

Cash compensation for this role is targeted at $200,000/yr to $235,000/yr in Denver & most remote locations, and $235,000/yr to $280,000/yr in New York & San Francisco Bay Area. Stock equity is additional. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.

Gusto has physical office spaces in Denver, San Francisco, and New York City. Employees who are based in those locations will be expected to work from the office on designated days approximately 2-3 days per week (or more depending on role). The same office expectations apply to all Symmetry roles, Gusto's subsidiary, whose physical office is in Scottsdale.

Note: The San Francisco office expectations encompass both the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas.

When approved to work from a location other than a Gusto office, a secure, reliable, and consistent internet connection is required.

Gusto is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Gusto considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Gusto is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you require assistance in filling out a Gusto job application, please reach out to .

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