Earnest

Security Engineer

• Lead and scale the security team: Directly manage, mentor, and grow emerging security leaders and engineers, including a Sr Security Engineer, Security Architect, and your existing team members.
• Define and evolve security strategy: Build and mature a comprehensive security program from an early stage, aligning security initiatives with overall business and product goals.
• Embed security into engineering workflows: Collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to integrate security early in system designs (such as threat and design reviews) and into CI/CD pipelines.
• Govern compliance and third-party risk: Own security architecture, operations, engineering, IT compliance, and third-party risk assessment programs to satisfy regulatory and fintech expectations.
• Act as a risk-management partner: Serve as a pragmatic advisor who assesses risk and provides business-enabling guardrails rather than acting as a strict gatekeeper.
• Communicate across stakeholders: Effectively translate complex security concepts and major risks to non-technical stakeholders, executive leadership, and cross-functional partners.

Director of Security