At a Glance
About This Role
At Beyond Finance, we've made it our mission to help everyday Americans escape the endless cycle of crippling debt and step into a brighter financial future. Through compassionate, individualized care,a culture focused on compliance and ethics, supportive user-centric technology, and customized financial solutions, we've helped over 1 million clients on their path to a brighter future.
While we're proud of what we've already accomplished, we're searching for new collaborators to help us get to the next level! If you're looking to join a forward-thinking, rapidly growing organization with helping people as its number one goal, we want to hear from you.
Role Overview
As a Staff Security Engineer, you'll get involved early with Product and Software Engineering teams to embed security into our architecture and processes as they design, build, and ship. You'll also be someone the Security team can pull into any project, at any phase and regardless of domain, to make sure it lands on the right security outcome.
This is a hands-on role, and you don't need to be an expert in all three areas: application security, cloud security, and security automation and tooling. You should have strong, demonstrated depth in one of the three, along with enough working knowledge of the other two to contribute without hand-holding and to be a trusted voice on technical decisions outside the systems you personally own.
What You'll Do
- Partner with Engineering, DevOps, and Product across projects, providing security input at any phase of design or build, regardless of domain.
- Guide secure design and code review for web and mobile applications, and help manage core AppSec tooling (SAST, SCA, secret scanning, DAST, ASM, and mobile security tooling).
- Help triage and remediate application-level vulnerabilities with engineering teams.
- Contribute to cloud security posture across the AWS environment, including IAM, network segmentation, container security, secrets, and data exposure, using CNAPP and AWS-native tooling.
- Support cloud and application vulnerability management, and help tune WAF rules as needed.
- Build automation and internal tooling, primarily in Python, that reduces manual work for the security team.
- Contribute to security log pipelines, SIEM detections, and endpoint security controls.
- Help embed security checks, such as scanning and secrets detection, into CI/CD pipelines in partnership with DevOps.
- Contribute to secure development and infrastructure standards, playbooks, and enablement materials used across engineering.
What We're Looking For
Requirements
- 8+ years of hands-on security engineering experience.
- Strong, demonstrated depth in one of the following, with working knowledge of the other two: application security, cloud security, or security automation and tooling.
- Working knowledge of threat modeling.
- Operates independently and drives projects without day-to-day oversight.
Nice to Have
- Deeper expertise across more than one of the following: application security (SAST/DAST/ASM tooling, secure SDLC), cloud security (AWS IAM, networking, container orchestration, CNAPP-driven posture management), or security automation (Python tooling, log pipelines, SIEM detection engineering).
- Hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience, ideally Terraform.
- Red teaming or offensive security experience.
- PCI-regulated or financial services environment experience.
- Mobile application security experience.
- AI/ML security exposure: prompt injection, data poisoning, model abuse, and the controls that mitigate them.
- Identity security across human and non-human identities.
- Development experience with Ruby on Rails, Python, Go, or similar languages.
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate measures success by reduced risk, not tickets closed. They understand how an attacker would approach a system and use that understanding to favor secure design and simple guardrails over adding more scanners or approval gates. They treat application code, cloud infrastructure, identity, and the pipeline as one connected system rather than separate problems.
This person is proactive. Given an ambiguous problem, they identify the highest-impact piece and start working on it rather than waiting for a fully scoped ticket, and they'd rather deliver a partial fix now and improve it over time than spend months on the perfect design. When a fix is needed in a system they don't own, they make the change themselves, get it reviewed, and ship it rather than filing a ticket and waiting on someone else.
Engineers trust this person's judgment. They catch a bad design, a fragile system, or an overlooked risk before it ships, and they flag potential blockers early enough to design around them instead of working around them later.
Why Join Us
- High-ownership role with room to influence architecture, tooling, and process beyond your own domain.
- Work spans application security, cloud security, and security automation rather than being boxed into one lane.
- Modern engineering environment with strong leadership support for security.
- Competitive compensation, benefits, and growth opportunities.
The base annual salary range is listed below. This role is eligible for additional incentives, including an annual bonus.
Why Join Us?
While you make a difference for others, we’ll work to make a difference for you, providing an uplifting, collaborative work environment and benefits that reflect your value to us. For eligible full-time employees, we offer:
- Considerable employer contributions for health, dental, and vision programs
- Generous PTO, paid holidays, and paid parental leave
- 401(k) matching program
- Merit advancement opportunities
- Career development & training
And finally, our team spirit and culture! We cultivate an environment of community, connection, and belonging across our entire organization.
Beyond Finance does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job positions. No fee will be paid to their parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to Beyond Finance employees or the Beyond Finance HR team. No placement fee will be paid to any third party unless such a request has been made by the Beyond HR team.
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About Beyond Finance
Beyond Finance is a leading debt consolidation company in the United States, founded in 2011. The company specializes in helping clients manage and reduce their unsecured debt, having assisted over 1 million people and facilitated the payoff of more than $3 billion in debt. Beyond Finance operates with approximately 2,000 employees across corporate campuses in San Diego, Chicago, and Houston, offering a hybrid workspace model. The company provides personalized debt consolidation programs that can lower monthly payments by 40% or more, helping clients become debt-free within 24 to 48 months. Beyond Finance also offers financial wellness tools, including budgeting resources and support from accredited financial therapists. The company is committed to transparency and client empowerment, allowing individuals to track their progress on their financial journey. With an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau and recognition from various industry awards, Beyond Finance is dedicated to transforming the lives of those facing financial challenges.
Security at Beyond Finance
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Security Philosophy
- Beyond Finance views security as an integral component of product quality, emphasizing proactive risk management and developer partnership over reactive gating.
- The stated AppSec mission is to be the primary owner and driver of the application security program.
- The company prioritizes developer enablement by partnering with engineering teams during sprint planning and feature design to proactively address risks, while driving adoption of secure coding practices and threat-modeling across engineering teams. The company values security as a core part of product quality.
Security Team
- Beyond Finance's security team includes specialized roles such as the Senior Lead Cybersecurity Engineer and Information Security Technicians.
- The AppSec function is currently a high-priority area for growth, as evidenced by active senior-level recruitment.
- Key public-facing leaders include Bean Brown (Cybersecurity Program Builder) and Shawn Parkerson (Sr Lead, Cybersecurity Engineer).
- The security team is estimated at 10-15 people as of March 2026.
Key Initiatives
- The team is focused on evolving the AppSec roadmap and integrating security into the development lifecycle through standardized playbooks and automated monitoring.
- Key initiatives include building and maintaining secure development standards, playbooks, and training materials, monitoring and prioritizing findings from SAST/DAST/ASM tools, and leading the evolution of the company's application security strategy and roadmap under new senior leadership.
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