Staff Security Engineer

Intuit

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Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
Mountain View, CA
Salary
$207,000–$280,000 / yr
Posted
7 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $187k
This role $244k
$120k most similar roles pay here $297k

This role pays more than 92% of similar roles. Most pay $158,625–$216,065 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $244k versus about $187k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Intuit

Intuit is a financial software company known for products like TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mint, and Credit Karma, helping consumers and small businesses manage their finances and taxes. Industry: Financial Software & Technology

Intuit currently has 174 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $202,500–$274,000 across 152 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Security Engineer

As a Staff Security Engineer, you will join the security team to lead strategic initiatives aimed at mitigating and remediating organizational risk. You will build and instrument security controls across cloud infrastructure, manage containerized workloads in serverless architectures, and develop custom tooling through scripting and coding to automate redundant tasks. Your daily work involves using Terraform for deploying baseline controls, performing code reviews, and managing the applied cryptography function, including PKI and secrets management in multi-tenant environments. You will operate within a Tier 0 production environment requiring high discipline for incident response. The role requires expertise in Golang or Java, along with proficiency in Kubernetes, Helm, and CI/CD toolsets. You will solve complex problems involving network architecture, identity and access management, vulnerability management, and detection and response engineering across hybrid and public cloud environments.

What does a Security Engineer earn in California?

Median $196000 from 31 postings across 16 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead strategic initiatives to mitigate and remediate security risks across the organization.
  • Implement and instrument security controls and tooling across cloud infrastructure.
  • Manage infrastructure using containerized workloads, serverless architecture, and automated CI/CD pipelines.
  • Develop custom scripts and code to build security tools and automate redundant tasks.
  • Use Terraform to deploy security baseline controls and perform code reviews.
  • Lead the applied cryptography function including PKI, key lifecycle management, and secrets management.
  • Define and document security standards and procedures for cloud infrastructure operations.
  • Manage Tier 0 systems with a focus on incident response and high-availability production environments.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years of experience in Security Engineering building, operating, and architecting home-grown and vendor solutions.
  • Strong understanding of Computer Engineering with a focus on Infrastructure, Platform, IAM, and Application security.
  • Experience running infrastructure at scale using configuration management and automation to ensure idempotency and reliability.
  • Experience operating Tier 0 systems in production that are customer and revenue impacting.
  • Expertise in at least 2-3 vertical domains such as Applied Cryptography, IAM, Network Security, Vulnerability Management, or Detection & Response.
  • Professional knowledge of Golang, Java, or other higher-level OOP languages.
  • Professional experience with Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and CI/CD toolsets.
  • Familiarity with SRE and DevSecOps methodologies to solve operational problems through automation and software.

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