Senior Staff Engineer, SOC
Blackhawk Network3 days ago
Base Salary
$156k - $323k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead offensive security assessments targeting transaction systems, authentication flows, APIs, and financially motivated threats.
- Embed security into requirements, design, development, and deployment phases of the SDLC.
- Define secure coding practices and perform security design reviews, threat modeling, and architecture assessments.
- Secure AWS environments and cloud-native workloads using AWS security tooling.
- Conduct vulnerability assessments with SAST, DAST, software composition analysis, and fuzzing platforms.
- Analyze findings, prioritize remediation, track issues to resolution, and develop risk mitigation strategies.
- Partner with engineering, DevOps, cloud, and product teams to improve security maturity.
- Mentor junior engineers and communicate security risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in application security, cloud security, or related fields.
- Strong expertise in secure coding, API security, software architecture, and application security.
- Hands-on experience with SAST, DAST, software composition analysis, and fuzzing platforms.
- Solid understanding of AWS services including IAM, Lambda, S3, and VPC, along with AWS-native security tooling.
- Experience securing containerized and microservice-based environments.
- Ability to influence cross-functional teams, prioritize risk, solve problems, and communicate effectively.
- CISSP, CSSLP, or AWS Security Specialty certification is preferred.
- Familiarity with OWASP, NIST, and ISO 27001 security standards and frameworks.
- Experience using AI tools to enhance work, improve processes, or deliver measurable results.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement combining remote work with in-person collaboration at the Coppell, Texas office.
- 401(k) with employer match, medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 12 paid holidays in 2026, flexible time off, parental leave, life insurance, disability insurance, and accident and illness insurance.
- Health and dependent care flexible spending accounts and wellness benefits.
- Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check and drug screen.
About Blackhawk Network
Blackhawk Network builds a global branded payments platform used by retailers, brands, and enterprises to issue and distribute gift cards, egifts, prepaid products, and incentive payouts across channels. It monetizes via card issuance, distribution, processing, and APIs, and operates a network reaching over 400,000 consumer touchpoints worldwide. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Pleasanton, California, it was previously NASDAQ-listed (HAWK) before being taken private in 2018.