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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
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The Staff Security Engineer joins the security engineering team to lead strategic initiatives for mitigating and remediating organizational security risks. This role involves implementing and instrumenting security controls across cloud infrastructure, managing containerized workloads, and utilizing serverless architecture within automated CI/CD pipelines. You will perform scripting and coding to build security tooling, use Terraform to deploy baseline controls, and lead the Applied Cryptography function focusing on PKI and secrets management. The position requires expertise in Golang, Java, Kubernetes, Helm, and configuration management. You will operate Tier 0 systems, requiring rigor in incident response and vulnerability management. Key responsibilities include defining security standards for multi-tenant environments and researching new architectures to address threat vectors across network security and identity management domains.
What does a Security Engineer earn in California?
Median $200125 from 42 postings across 15 companies.
Lead strategic initiatives to mitigate and remediate security risks across the organization.
Implement and instrument security controls and tooling across cloud infrastructure.
Manage Infrastructure-as-a-Service using containerized workloads, serverless architecture, and automated CI/CD pipelines.
Write code and scripts to build security tooling and automate redundant tasks.
Use Terraform to deploy security baseline controls and perform code reviews.
Lead the Applied Cryptography function focusing on PKI, key lifecycle, and secrets management.
Operate Tier 0 production systems with a focus on incident response and on-call rotation.
Define and document security standards and procedures for cloud infrastructure 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 focusing on Security, Infrastructure, Platform, IAM, and Application.
Demonstrable knowledge of Network Architecture and experience supporting multi-tier web application architectures.
Experience running Infrastructure at scale using Configuration Management and automation to ensure idempotency, ephemerality, security, and reliability.
Experience operating Tier 0 Systems in Production which are customer and revenue impacting.
Professional knowledge of Golang, Java, or other higher-level OOP languages.
Professional experience with Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and CI/CD toolsets.
Expertise in 2-3 vertical domains such as Applied Cryptography, IAM, Network Security, Vulnerability Management, or Detection & Response (preferred).
EDR
XDR
Zero Trust
SASE
ZTNA
Python
Golang
Java
C/C++
Endpoint Security
Infrastructure Security
System Hardening
Data Loss Prevention
SaaS Security
AI/ML
Automation
macOS
Windows
Linux