Security Engineer

ABOUT OPORTUN

Oportun (Nasdaq: OPRT) is an A.I.-powered digital banking platform that seeks to make financial health effortless for anyone. Driven by a mission to provide inclusive and affordable financial services, Oportun helps its nearly 1.5 million hardworking members meet their daily borrowing, savings, banking, and investing needs. Since inception, Oportun has provided more than $12 billion in responsible and affordable credit, saved its members more than $2 billion in interest and fees, and automatically helped members set aside more than $7.2 billion for rainy days and other needs. In recognition of its responsibly designed products, Oportun has been certified as a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) since 2009.

With headquarters in California and a remote-first corporate culture, our 3,000+ team members work in Oportun locations and remotely throughout the United States, Mexico, and India.  Our global operations include our Mexico contact centers and administrative offices, our India technology development center, and our US corporate, technology, and retail operations.

We are proud to have been named a “Top Workplace” by the Bay Area News Group for three consecutive years, one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in the World for 2020 and recognized as one of TIME Magazine’s 2018 Genius Companies Reinventing the Future.

WORKING AT OPORTUN

Working at Oportun means enjoying a differentiated experience of being part of a team that fosters a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where we all feel a sense of belonging and are encouraged to share our perspectives. This inclusive culture is directly connected to our organization's performance and ability to fulfill our mission of delivering affordable credit to those left out of the financial mainstream. We celebrate and nurture our inclusive culture through our employee resource groups and our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Council.

ABOUT ENGINEERING @ OPORTUN

Let’s face it, managing personal finances is hard. 70% of Americans struggle with at least one aspect of financial stability, 1 in 5 has no retirement savings, the average college student graduates with $37,000 in student loans, and the national credit card debt is over $1 trillion. We’re building a smart financial assistant to help make financial health effortless for everyone.

We have a collaborative, diverse, and supportive culture and we look for people who are curious, ambitious, and mission-driven. If you’re passionate about building something that’s never been built before and helping real people every day we’re excited to meet you.

The Role and Team

This role will help build a cutting-edge security program as we develop the next phase of financial services for everyone. The person in this role will be a member of a security team within our neobanking business unit, which partners with platform and product engineers across our organization. The role is that of a hands-on engineer with the passion to solve tough Security problems within the product platform, build and deploy pipelines, and general IT processes. We are builders, first and foremost.

Responsibilities

• You will develop tools and features to monitor and improve our security stance
• You will identify security gaps in our application and infrastructure
• You will build to automate the identification of security gaps
• Investigate, analyze, and integrate cloud monitoring solutions within AWS
• Assist in design and integration of CI/CD security tooling such as SAST, SCA, etc.
• Partner with security operations team to improve their accessibility and maneuverability using devops tools
• Assist in reviewing/editing/creating technology and security documentation
• Assist in investigations and escalations

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience security engineering, software engineering, site reliability engineering or similar
• Experience with one or more modern programming/scripting language such as Ruby, Python, Golang, Nodejs, or a C like language.
• Ability to work within an agile, asynchronous team (you must be self-driven as we are remote-first)
• Ability to build security features as a software engineer in our codebase
• Working knowledge of source version control, build/release tools and methodologies, and CI/CD pipelines
• Eager to learn new technologies and DevSecOps methodologies (auto-scaled cloud-native systems, serverless, observability, etc.)
• If you aren’t a security expert, you are willing to become one with our help

Useful/Desired Skills

• Experience with cloud systems and architectures (Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure)
• Experience developing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Configuration as Code (CaC) using tools like Terraform
• Development experience with Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• Experience with Istio

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We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants for employment opportunities without regard to race, age, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other category protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.