Remitly

Principal Security Engineer

Remitly
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14 days ago

Base Salary

$256k - $320k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Set technical direction and demonstrate security excellence through hands-on delivery across multiple security domains.
  • Design, build, and ship agentic platforms, agents, skills, tooling, controls, and automations for application and infrastructure security, identity, privacy, governance, and risk.
  • Deliver production features and security controls at a rapid pace while automating previously manual work.
  • Advise engineering leaders and executives on secure design and security-business tradeoffs.
  • Mentor and develop builders across security and privacy job families and raise the organization’s technical bar.
  • Partner across the company to accelerate development and delivery through effective security capabilities.

Requirements

  • Proven software engineering depth building, operating, and leading major production services at scale.
  • Hands-on experience delivering production or open-source software through agentic development and shipping code weekly.
  • Experience building foundational security controls and automations with LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, Python, and Golang.
  • Broad ownership across security functions at organizations with more than 1,000 users, with deep expertise in security engineering, AI development, and application security.
  • Deep command of cloud and infrastructure security, identity and access management, cryptography, and data protection.
  • Ability to quickly develop expertise in unfamiliar security domains and use agentic development to reduce classes of risk.
  • Experience building on cloud-native infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes.
  • Track record of mentoring engineers who became technical leaders.
  • Strong technical judgment, comfort with ambiguity, and communication skills for aligning leaders without formal authority.

Benefits

  • Starting U.S. base salary range is $256,000-$320,000, with equity and additional medical and financial benefits available.
  • Hybrid work culture requires onsite attendance Tuesday through Thursday each week, with additional onsite attendance possible based on business needs.
Remitly

About Remitly

1,001-5,000 employees

Remitly builds a digital remittance platform and mobile app for sending money across borders, with delivery options like bank deposit, cash pickup, and mobile wallets. It earns revenue from transfer fees and foreign-exchange spreads, serving immigrant communities and their families. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Seattle, Remitly is a public company listed on NASDAQ (ticker: RELY) with operations across major send and receive corridors worldwide.

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