Senior Staff Security Engineer (Fintech)

Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States; hybrid collaboration with teams coming into the office 10+ days per month.

Annual base salary for Illinois: $220,000–$300,000 USD, excluding equity, bonuses, and commissions.

Company

hirify.global builds crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments, and developers to improve the global financial system.

What you will do

• Own the security posture of hirify.global Treasury products and infrastructure from assessment through remediation and continuous maturity improvement.
• Lead threat modeling, security architecture reviews, and senior-level architecture decisions across Treasury offerings.
• Define secure software development lifecycle guardrails, CI/CD integrations, and developer guidance.
• Design cloud security architecture across Azure and AWS, including IAM, network segmentation, encryption, zero trust, Kubernetes traffic policies, DDoS protection, and WAF strategy.
• Drive vulnerability discovery, penetration testing, bug bounty findings, remediation, and validation with an emphasis on automation and developer self-service.
• Build a Security Champions model, mentor Security Engineers, and translate emerging FinTech and crypto threats into defensive improvements.

Requirements

• 10+ years of Security Engineering experience, including Product Security and Infrastructure Security.
• Expertise in threat modeling, security architecture, OWASP Top 10, API security, authentication and authorization, and secure SDLC practices.
• Deep cloud security experience across Azure, AWS, and/or GCP, including IAM, network security, secrets management, containers, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code.
• Hands-on experience with DevSecOps tooling, static and dynamic analysis, software composition analysis, secrets and container scanning, and CI/CD security integration.
• Strong software engineering skills in Python, Go, or an equivalent language.
• Experience with cryptographic principles and key management, including HSMs, MPC, PKI, and key rotation.

Nice to have

• Background in FinTech, crypto, blockchain, or other high-stakes financial environments.
• Experience working with systems where security failures can create direct customer or systemic financial impact.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced startup environment with experienced industry leaders.
• Professional development budget and opportunities to work with current technologies.
• Flexible manager- and team-led in-office collaboration for important moments, with 10+ office days per month.
• Healthcare, retirement, family-forming and family-support benefits, employee giving match, and mobile phone stipend.
• Vacation, R&R days, wellness reimbursement, parental leave, family planning benefits, catered lunches, and team events.