Staff Product Security Engineer

Rippling is the first way for businesses to manage all of their HR & IT—payroll, benefits, computers, apps, and more—in one unified workforce platform.
By connecting every business system to one source of truth for employee data, businesses can automate all of the manual work they normally need to do to make employee changes. Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can just click a button and set up a new employees’ payroll, health insurance, work computer, and third-party apps—like Slack, Zoom, and Office 365—all within 90 seconds.
Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.2B from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America’s best startup employers by Forbes.
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About The Role

We’re looking for a hands-on staff security engineer to play a key role in building Rippling’s security program. Rippling’s product’s scope provides a unique set of security challenges, but our management is especially supportive of security and compliance as a central function of the business. As an early member of Rippling’s security team, you’ll have a meaningful impact on the security program’s priorities and direction.

About the team

We are a diverse team of skilled security engineers that are passionate about pushing the boundaries of  security practices. We look to collaborate with our Engineering partners to find the right solution for our interesting challenges. Our team thrives on re-imagining approaches to traditional security to secure our vast ecosystem.

Our achievements are shared through our blogs and at conferences and meetups. 

A little more about our team:

• Our Infrastructure Security team shared a blog about how they streamlined AWS access 

• We spoke at BSides SF about attacking and defending infrastructure with terraform

• Our Product Security lead talked about the Future Application Security Engineers

• Our Security Engineering lead talk about an innovative way to reduce vulnerabilities in your organization 

What You’ll Do

• Develop and maintain a security architecture strategy, evaluate security technologies, and ensure compliance through design and architecture reviews.

• Provide full SDLC support for new product features developed by engineering and non-engineering teams, including threat modeling, design reviews, manual code reviews, and exploit writing.

• Conduct system security and vulnerability analyses, provide risk mitigation recommendations, and mentor team members in security best practices.

• Build automations or secure paved paths to make it easier for Product Security to scale with the business.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in an product security role

• Experience leading architectural changes or complex cross team efforts to mitigate security vulnerabilities

• Familiar with security frameworks (e.g., NIST SSDF) and regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA).

• Deep understanding of securing web applications

• Fluency in Python, React, and Django Rest Framework

• Experience with manual source code review, and embedding security to code in production environments.

• Experience with deploying application security tools in the CI/CD pipeline

• Experience with securing software development lifecycle including building programs that eliminate full classes of vulnerabilities

Bonus Points

• Good understanding of SSO, including OAUTH, SAML
• Experience with speaking at meetups or conferences
• Experience running a bug bounty program

Additional Information
Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email [email protected]