Lead Security Engineer

Benepass

Lead Security Engineer at Benepass building security practices to protect benefits platform. Collaborate with teams to embed security across applications, infrastructure, and workflows.

Posted 5/20/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $190,000 - $230,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudSDLC

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build, operationalize, and scale the security engineering practices that protect the benefits platform
Work across application security, cloud security, security architecture, supply chain security, detection engineering, and vulnerability management
Partner deeply with the teams building web and mobile applications, backend services, system integrations, card and banking workflows, infrastructure as code, and data platforms
Turn risk reduction into scalable guardrails, automated controls, and clear engineering guidance
Help define secure AI tooling usage, LLM and code-assistant governance, and data protection practices for AI-enabled development workflows
Balance ideal security outcomes with engineering velocity and business priorities

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years in security engineering, application security, cloud security, product security, platform security, or closely related technical security roles
Proven ability to lead broad security engineering initiatives as a senior IC
Strong working knowledge of secure SDLC practices, secure design review, threat modeling, API security, code scanning, SAST, CI/CD security integrations, security testing, defect management, and vulnerability remediation workflows
Hands-on experience with AWS-native security patterns and services
Ability to guide secure system builds involving access control, encryption standards, key and certificate management, vaulting, secrets management, and managed HSM/KMS-backed cryptographic services
Experience hardening build, test, and deployment workflows through dependency scanning, SBOMs, artifact signing, secret scanning, CI/CD guardrails
Ability to use frameworks such as NIST CSF 2.0 and OWASP SAMM pragmatically

Benefits

Comp & perks

95% coverage of medical, dental, and vision
$250 WFH setup (one time)
$500/year Learning & Development Benefit
$150/month cell phone + internet
$100/month Wellness
$100/month Co-working and Commuter Benefit
Flexible PTO

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Hard Skills & Tools

security engineeringapplication securitycloud securityproduct securityplatform securitysecure SDLC practicesthreat modelingAPI securitySASTCI/CD security integrations

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationrisk managementguidancecommunication