Sr. Security Engineer

Full Time
Full Remote
About Sofía

We are a proudly Latin American startup, but because we want to reach the whole world we share most of our internal communication and knowledge in English. This is why this section will not be in Spanish, although we love both languages.

About Sofía

At Sofia we want to change the way millions of people take care of their health by offering a health plan that is more complete and simpler to understand for anyone who wants to live a healthier life. We want to build a thriving community that deeply changes the way the health system works.

About the role

In this role, you will take a hands-on approach to security. You will collaborate closely with our engineering team to develop security features and improve our infrastructure to make our systems more secure and reliable. You will also spend a small portion of your time establishing company wide processes that protect us from non-technical threats, such as phishing.

This position is key to ensure that we remain at the forefront of best practices in cybersecurity. Your expertise will help safeguard our users' data and maintain the trust that Sofía's stakeholders place in our company.

What you'll do

  • Develop security features in our product alongside the rest of our engineering team.
  • Establish secure development patterns and frameworks.
  • Evolve our infrastructure to make sure it’s reliable and secure.
  • Deploy company-wide processes and policies that increase the safety of our user’s information (e.g. phishing simulations, SSO, asset management, etc.).
  • Coordinate our external pentesting projects (and/or manage a bug bounty program).

What we're looking for

Our ideal Sr. Security Engineer has:

  • Evident expertise on Infosec.
  • Several years of backend development experience.
  • Significant interest in other non-development aspects of security.

And it would be ideal if they have:

  • Experience with Heroku, Vercel and AWS.
  • Worked at a security team on a startup at series B or C.

Our process

  1. Cultural screening ft. Max, from People & Culture
  2. Specific background screening ft. Mani, Co-founder & CTO
  3. Technical interview (coding exercise) ft. Mani, Co-founder & CTO
  4. Semi technical screening  ft. David, Backend Engineer
  5. Final screening ft. Arturo, Co-founder & CEO and Sebo, Co-founder & CPO.

*Our selection processes usually last between 3 to 4 weeks. In some cases, we may need to add an additional stage if we require further clarity.

Benefits

Work on an ambitious mission to improve how people take care of their health.

Intentional freedom. We believe in a flexible environment where you have the freedom to make your job match your lifestyle and own those decisions.

A driven and talented team that will challenge you to go further everyday.

Sofía’s Health Plan.

20 flexible vacation days per year + official holidays.

Competitive salary.

About Sofía

We are a proudly Latin American startup, but because we want to reach the whole world we share most of our internal communication and knowledge in English. This is why this section will not be in Spanish, although we love both languages.