Security Engineering Lead

• Upvest is at the inflection point where security needs to scale and remain a foundational discipline of the company
• We’re hiring a Security Engineering Lead to step into our lean and efficient Security team, set its multi-quarter direction, work cross-functionally and scale Security Engineering into a team that continues to own Upvest’s entire application security and cloud security posture in a highly regulated environment as it scales
• This role sits alongside our Security Operations and GRC teams, which owns detection, response, and compliance operations
• Where SecOps keeps watch over what’s happening now, Security Engineering shapes what we build and how we build it, embedding security into the SDLC, hardening our cloud environment, and building the platforms that make security teams more effective
• You will own the secure paved roads every Upvest engineer relies on: automated SAST/DAST/SCA in our GitHub Actions pipelines, SSDLC adherence, IAM and network controls, and the technical implementation of DORA’s (and other regulations’) ICT risk framework for our platform
• Our mission for the team is simple: make the secure way the easy way for everyone at Upvest
• Set the multi-quarter strategy for application and cloud security across Upvest’s Investment API platform - aligned with our product roadmap, our tenant commitments, and our regulatory obligations under DORA, MiFID II, and BaFin’s MaRisk / BAIT requirements
• Lead, mentor, and grow our Security Engineering and Upvest’s security culture. You’ll inherit a small, talented team and own hiring, onboarding, growth, and retention as we scale. And you’ll create initiatives to build security into the development and product life cycle
• Build paved roads. Own how Upvest performs encryption, authN/authZ, CI/CD, data, and network surfaces. We want fewer security review queues and more security baked into the templates
• Own application security end-to-end. Threat modeling, secure code review, SAST/DAST/SCA tooling integration in our GitHub Actions CI/CD, and vulnerability management
• Drive better cloud security posture across our GCP environment - IAM, VPC Service Controls, Cloud KMS, CSPM (Wiz), Binary Authorization for GKE, Terraform-driven infrastructure security baselines, and our Linkerd service mesh posture
• Mature Upvest’s DORA technical implementation. Partner with our risk and compliance functions to translate DORA’s ICT risk framework (Art. 5-9), secure development testing requirements (Art. 16), and threat-led penetration testing (Art. 24-27) into engineering work programmes - and into evidence we can show auditors and regulators
• Embed security in every product design. Partner deeply with product and engineering teams. Architecture reviews, design partnerships, security champions across product squads, collaboration beats gatekeeping
• Stay current on emerging threats. AI / LLM security, agentic identities, and the secure use of AI tooling in our own engineering workflow are an active concern
• Represent Upvest’s security posture clearly to everyone

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