Senior Product Security Engineer

The Company You'll Join

Carta is a platform that helps people manage equity, build businesses, and invest in the companies of tomorrow. Our mission is to unlock the power of equity ownership for more people in more places.

Carta is trusted by more than 40,000 companies and over two million people in nearly 160 countries to manage cap tables, compensation, and valuations.

Carta also supports nearly 7,000 funds and SPVs, and represents nearly $130B in assets under administration. Carta's tender offer solutions have returned $14B to shareholders in secondary transactions.

Today, Carta's platform manages nearly three trillion dollars in equity globally.

For more information about our offices and culture, check out our Carta careers page.

The Problems You'll Solve

At Carta, our employees set out on a mission to unlock the power of equity ownership for more people in more places. We believe that the problems we solve today unlock the opportunities of tomorrow.

As a Senior Product Security Engineer, you'll work to help us solve problems including :

• How do we build tooling, automation, and infrastructure that empowers our engineering organization to move fast while simultaneously improving product security?
• How do we improve the software development lifecycle to make security the path of least resistance?
• Which tools and what guidance can we provide developers to ensure that they are able to peer review code in the most effective manner?
• How do we encourage developers to seamlessly consider and continuously think about security?

The Team You'll Work With

You'll be joining the Product Security team within the Information Security organization. The Product Security organization protects our customers' data, investments, and livelihood by ensuring Carta's products are designed and implemented to the highest security standards.

You will be working with the team to take on projects which identify security vulnerabilities from many sources, automatically build security into our product, and provide a paved road for engineering teams to produce secure software.

Our risk model puts teams in charge of owning risk which makes us a trusted partner. To complete this mission, we need people who share our passion for creating engineering solutions to complex security problems.

The Impact You'll Have

You will leverage your ability to improve Carta's product, pipeline, and developer experience in order to pave the way for security ownership by all product teams across the company.

You will be a key partner for engineering teams releasing high-quality and secure software.

About You

We are looking for a proactive individual who is able to :

• Advise on risks related to application, container, and cloud security vulnerabilities.
• Automate tasks for themselves or developers.
• Understand threat modeling, general software development practices and the components of a modern product security program.
• Be an empathetic security consultant on new and existing products, perform code reviews, and conduct penetration tests to proactively identify vulnerabilities.
• Educate Product and Engineering teams on relevant security topics.
• Experience with a variety of product security testing tools (e.g. Burp Suite, OWASP Zap, Semgrep, CodeQL, etc)
• Has 6+ years of experience implementing scalable security programs.
• Software development experience with several interpreted or compiled programming languages.
• A team player who is considerate of others.

This role can be based in NYC, SF, Santa Clara, or Seattle.

Salary

Carta's compensation package includes a market competitive salary, equity for all full time roles, exceptional benefits, and, for applicable roles, commissions plans.

Our minimum cash compensation (salary + commission if applicable) range for this role is :

• $191,250 - $225,000 in San Francisco, CA; Santa Clara, CA; or New York City, NY
• $181,688 - $213,750 in Seattle, WA

Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, and other factors.

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to providing a positive interview experience for every candidate. If accommodations due to a disability or medical condition are needed, please connect with the recruiter via email.

As a company, we value fairness, helpfulness, transparency, leadership and build our teams around these values. Check out our careers page to get to know us better as you think about your next step at Carta.

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Awards and Acknowledgements

Companies and funds like Tribe and Pipe build their businesses on Carta. The company has been included on the Forbes World's Best Cloud Companies, Fast Company's Most Innovative list, and Inc.

s Fastest-Growing Private Companies. We've also been recognized as a 2023 Built In Best Place to Work in the U.S., a Muse VIBE Award winner in the Vacation and Time Off category and certified as a Great Place to Work.

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