Security Engineer, Cloud
Role summary
Ramp is seeking a Security Engineer, Cloud to enhance the security posture of its financial infrastructure. This role involves driving the cloud security roadmap, designing and implementing secure infrastructure primitives, and leading issue remediation. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 5 years in software development and 3 years of experience building in AWS with Terraform, demonstrating a strong sense of ownership and a desire for continuous growth in a fast-paced environment. Experience with Python (Flask), Azure, and GCP is preferred.
About Ramp
Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $100B in annualized spend flows in and out of 50,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books.
The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving.
We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome.
The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same.
If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it.
About The Role
The Security Engineering team helps make Ramp the most secure place for our customers to collect, manage, and put to work their business’ financial information
Our work centers in three areas:
- Ramp builds products with an eye for security
- Ramp detects and responds to threats before they cause harm
- Security powers Ramp’s growth
Check out our Engineering Blog for more on our tech stack, mission and values!
What You’ll Do
- Drive our cloud security roadmap: review our cloud deployments to identify opportunities for improvement
- Design and build security-focused infrastructure primitives and integrate them into our existing products and development processes
- Lead remediation of prioritized issues across our technology stack
- Partner with infrastructure, data, and devops teams to design and deploy solutions that are inherently secure
What You Need
- Minimum 5 years of experience building software
- Minimum 3 years of experience building in AWS (with Terraform)
- A strong sense of ownership: you need to drive projects from inception to scaling it in production
- Desire to work in a fast-paced environment, continuously grow, and master your craft
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with Python (Flask) and Terraform
- Experience with Azure, GCP, and other cloud providers
- Experience improving the developer experience and security properties of a multi-service deployment
Benefits (for U.S.-based Full-time Employees)
- 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you
- Partially covered for your dependents
- One Medical annual membership
- 401k (including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp)
- Flexible PTO
- Fertility HRA (up to $10,000 per year)
- Parental Leave
- Unlimited AI token usage
- Pet insurance
- Centralized home-office equipment ordering for all employees
- Health and Wellness stipend
- In-office perks: lunch, snacks, drinks, and more
- Budget for intra-office travel
- Relocation support to NYC or SF (as needed)
Referral Instructions
If you are being referred for the role, please contact that person to apply on your behalf.
Other Notices
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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