Manager of Security Engineering

Clover is looking for an experienced technical engineering manager to lead a geographically distributed team of product security engineers that work across the entire Clover platform.

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Be a part of the company that’s transforming the way merchants do business. At Clover, we deliver the leading Point of Sale system with an elegant end-to-end solution that incorporates beautiful devices, cloud-based POS software, payments processing, platform API’s for third-party developers, and an ecosystem with over 220 apps.

The Clover platform delivers solutions in a scalable and modular fashion that powers tiny merchants through large football stadiums, supporting millions of transactions daily.

We are looking for self starters with a passion for security technology who want to help us impact millions of merchant’s lives one transaction at a time.

Clover is looking for an experienced technical engineering manager to lead a geographically distributed team of product security engineers that work across the entire Clover platform.

This team’s primary responsibility is ensuring the security of Clover by building tooling and automation that supports application and platform engineering in writing and deploying secure code and infrastructure quickly.

This team consults with other engineering teams on architecture, security reviews, vendor selection and qualification, and training / best practices.

A successful leader in this role will be highly technical with a deep understanding of software engineering, and shipping secure code to production in a fast paced environment. A foundation in product security engineering is key, and the ability to combine security and engineering for business success is most important.

Daily Responsibilities and requirements:

  • Manage a team of high functioning security engineers
  • Work with the team to define and deliver short, middle, and long term strategies for securing applications and infrastructure.
  • Partner with teams throughout the organization to build the relationships and trust necessary to improve the state of security
  • Enable the team to deliver projects and roll out new products at scale
  • Experience managing and mentoring diverse individuals (diverse in both experience and skill set)
  • A broad and practical understanding of security fundamentals
  • Specific experience in infrastructure security; especially with modern CI/CD, and the design of secure distributed systems.
  • Practical knowledge and experience working in public cloud environments (AWS, GCP, etc.)
  • Interested in building creative solutions to challenging security problems

Strategic Responsibilities

  • Experienced in creating security strategies and roadmap for the security engineering team to help scale the infrastructure and meet business objectives. Align with quarterly, annual product roadmap to meet the growth goals of the organization.
  • Research and evaluate new technology products for pilot or proof of concept by technical teams. Bring a level of maturity around costs for scale into the evaluation at the POC as well as full scale use of a tool/technology.
  • Manage all application security products for Clover, including application security logging, and alerting.
  • Develop and present security product roadmap, reference architecture, and implementation plans from concept to product offering.
  • Develop and drive programs to evangelize, operationalize the security mindset, vision and best practices across the company with an emphasis on gaining measurable results.
  • Develop and drive approaches to identify and prevent security vulnerabilities earlier in the software development process in an automated scalable manner and work with engineering to implement these approaches. Basic Qualifications for Consideration:
  • 10+ years of software engineering experience
  • 5+ years of team management experience.
  • Experience with common application security foundations (SAST/DAST, OWASP, and similar)
  • Experience with securing infrastructure for a major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • 3+ years of experience with Agile project methodologies (Daily Standup, Sprint Planning and Sprint Retrospective meetings)
  • Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
  • Effective in building partnerships with senior technical, functional and business leaders to forward short-term and longer term security initiatives

Salary Range: $175k-$225k base, +25% annual bonus + RSU’s. Amount dependent on experience.

 

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