Senior Manager, Product Security (SecArch)
Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest. Affirm, Inc. proudly includes Affirm, PayBright, and Returnly.
Affirm values information security as a critical part of the company’s continued success. Our mission is to make information security programmatic and cultural in Affirm, enabling the company to succeed in building honest financial products. The Security team posture increases security and reduces risk while securely enabling access to information for those who need it!
The Sr Manager of Product Security (Security Architecture) candidate will have experience building and leading teams of highly technical security engineers and software developers. The ideal candidate will work effectively with product and engineering teams to evaluate and influence product requirements. The ideal candidate will also lead the Security Architecture team to help engineers achieve results, build effective processes, and grow in their careers.
What You'll Do
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of security engineers and software developers.
- Partner with Affirm product teams to ensure that security is included in every phase of the product development lifecycle.
- Lead threat modeling program ensuring that processes and tools are sufficient.
- Lead a software development team in producing product security tooling and secure development resources that can be leveraged by engineering teams.
- Manage escalations needed to ensure product security risks receive the proper visibility.
What We Look For
- Passion and drive to improve security for Affirm customers and build trust.
- 5+ years of experience working as a security engineer or security focussed developer
- 2+ years of experience managing security or developer teams.
- Understanding of continuous integration / continuous deployment processes and tools.
- Experience managing software development projects.
- BS degree in related field or equivalent experience or MS Degree in a technical major (Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, etc.)
- Familiarity with the payments ecosystem.
- Comfortable writing code in at least one language.
- Experience producing and presenting technical training materials
Location - Remote (Canada)
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Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and can be located anywhere in the U.S. and Canada (with the exception of the U.S. Territories, Quebec, Yukon, Nunavut, and the Northwest Territories) unless the job indicates a different global location. We are currently building operations in Spain, Poland, and Australia. Employees in remote roles have the option of working remotely or from an Affirm office in their country of hire, and may occasionally travel to an Affirm office or elsewhere for required meetings or team-building events. Our offices in Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City, San Francisco and Toronto will remain operational and accessible for anyone to use on a voluntary basis, subject to local COVID-19 guidelines.
If you got this far, we hope you're feeling excited about this role. Even if you don't feel you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We're eager to meet people who believe in Affirm's mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways—not just candidates who check all the boxes.
Inclusivity:
At Affirm, People Come First is one of our core values, and that’s why diversity and inclusion are vital to our priorities as an equal opportunity employer. You can read about our D&I program here and our progress thus far in our 2020 DEI Report.
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