Salient

Lead Security Engineer

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Base Salary

$200k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own operating procedures for SOC 2, PCI, enterprise security questionnaires, and bank-specific security requirements.
  • Conduct security testing across cloud/IAM, application, payment, and AI boundaries, including synthetic tests of recordings, transcripts, logs, tools, storage, and providers.
  • Investigate access anomalies and strengthen IAM/PAM controls and monitoring.
  • Manage network and vulnerability scanning through service-owner remediation, retesting, or authorized exceptions.
  • Develop incident runbooks, detections, and handoffs between security, service teams, and backup personnel.
  • Automate security controls and evidence workflows, including tested evidence connectors, asset reconciliation, obligation tracking, and claim review.
  • Write production-quality code and build tested security tooling and automation while communicating risk and tradeoffs to leadership.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience securing cloud infrastructure and identity and access management, including investigating suspicious access.
  • Software engineering background with the ability to write production-quality code and build tested tooling and automation.
  • Ability to own outcomes end to end, make decisions with incomplete information, prioritize by real risk, and ship weekly with a small team.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Generous 401(k).
  • Catered lunches.
  • Work is based in San Francisco, with four days per week collaborating in person.
  • The team typically works around 60 hours per week beginning at 8:00 AM.

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About Salient

51-200 employees

Salient builds compliance-first AI agents that automate loan-servicing workflows for US consumer lenders, including collections, customer support, QA/compliance reviews, disputes, and total-loss mitigation. The platform integrates with existing banking and servicing systems and handles borrower communications across voice, text, and email. Founded in 2023 and based in San Francisco, the privately held company sells to banks, credit unions, auto lenders, and fintechs.

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