
Senior Software Engineer, Security
Loancrate
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $170,000 - $300,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Design and build shared libraries, platform guardrails, and internal tools that make the secure path the easy path for engineers
- Review architecture, technical designs, and production code for security issues in product and platform systems
- Perform pragmatic threat modeling for new features, workflows, services, and integrations
- Improve core security patterns across the stack, including authentication, authorization, secrets handling, secure logging/redaction, auditability, and sensitive-data protections
- Build or improve developer-facing security automation in CI/CD and local workflows, including code scanning, dependency policy, secret detection, and infrastructure checks, with a bias toward low-noise, high-signal results
- Work directly with engineers to remediate vulnerabilities in code and design, focusing on durable fixes and reusable patterns rather than one-off tickets
- Help define and evolve a lightweight secure SDLC that fits a fast-moving startup environment
- Contribute to incident analysis and postmortems when product or platform security issues arise
- Write clear documentation, examples, and decision records that help teams build securely without unnecessary friction
Requirements
- Strong software engineering background, ideally in backend or platform systems
- Comfortable making meaningful contributions in a production codebase, not just scripts or proofs of concept
- Experience with secure design reviews, threat modeling, code review, and vulnerability remediation
- Strong understanding of common application and API security issues, including authentication, authorization, injection risks, secrets handling, session security, data exposure, and multi-tenant isolation
- Experience building engineering-facing tooling, libraries, CLIs, CI/CD checks, or other developer-platform guardrails
- Good technical judgment and a practical approach to reducing real risk without slowing the company down unnecessarily
- Strong written communication and the ability to explain technical risk clearly to engineers and non-security stakeholders
- Comfort operating with high autonomy in a small or medium-sized engineering organization
- Preference for solving problems in code and architecture rather than by introducing heavyweight process
Benefits
- Robust medical coverage (100% of employee + family premiums covered)
- Vision & dental coverage
- 401(k)
- HSA / FSA
- Remote-first culture - work from wherever you do your best work
- Flexible time off - we trust you to manage your time
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
secure design reviewsthreat modelingcode reviewvulnerability remediationauthenticationauthorizationsecrets handlingsecure loggingCI/CDdeveloper-facing tooling
Soft Skills
technical judgmentwritten communicationproblem-solvingautonomycollaboration