Principal Platform Security Engineer
Early Warning Services1 day ago
Chicago, IL, USA +2 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$184k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the enterprise technical vision for platform security engineering across shared services, internal platforms, and engineering workflows.
- Define secure target states, enterprise-scale design patterns, engineering standards, and control strategies across multiple products and technology pillars.
- Lead complex platform security decisions and establish reusable frameworks, reference implementations, technical guardrails, and scalable automation.
- Partner with engineering, infrastructure, product, and security leaders to align roadmaps, investments, and enterprise technical direction.
- Lead technical response strategy for significant platform security issues and mentor senior engineers as a recognized technical authority.
Requirements
- Typically 15 or more years of experience, or a demonstrated portfolio consistent with the role’s requirements.
- Expert-level experience across platform, infrastructure, software, and security engineering, including architectural and implementation leadership.
- Significant experience owning technical direction, defining standards or architectures adopted at scale, and solving complex systemic engineering problems.
- Ability to influence senior technical and business stakeholders and provide strategic recommendations on risk, tradeoffs, sequencing, and implementation.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred experience as a principal engineer, architect, or enterprise technical leader; with platform or cloud strategy, modernization, shared services, internal developer platforms, regulated institutions, threat modeling, or architectural risk analysis.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model.
- Base pay is listed by location at $184,000-$253,000 per year in Phoenix or Chicago and $221,000-$304,000 per year in San Francisco, plus a discretionary incentive plan.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage, with HSA or FSA options.
- 401(k) plan with a 100% company Safe Harbor Match on the first 6% of deferral immediately upon eligibility.
- Flexible time off or generous PTO depending on employee classification, 11 paid company holidays, and a paid volunteer day.
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave and Maven Family Planning support.
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About Early Warning Services
Early Warning Services builds payment networks and fraud/risk mitigation solutions for U.S. banks and credit unions. It operates the Zelle peer-to-peer payments network and is rolling out Paze, a digital wallet, alongside identity verification and account risk services. Headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, it is owned by a consortium of major U.S. banks and partners with thousands of financial institutions nationwide.