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Passion, excitement & global collaboration are all core to what it means to be a FlyMate. At Flywire, we’re on a mission to deliver the world’s most important and complex payments. We use our Flywire Advantage - the combination of our next-gen payments platform, proprietary payment network and vertical specific software, to help our clients get paid, and help their customers pay with ease - no matter where they are in the world.
What more do we need to truly be unstoppable? Perhaps, that is you!
Today we support more than 5,300 clients across the global education, healthcare, travel & B2B industries, with diverse payment methods across 240 countries & territories and more than 140 currencies.
With over 1,400+ global FlyMates, representing more than 40 nationalities, and in 15 offices world-wide, we’re looking for FlyMates to join the next stage of our journey as we continue to grow.
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track you will act as a technical authority for secure software design and cloud native infrastructure defence across Flywire's global footprint. You will bring an automation first mindset to a high velocity fintech environment, partnering with software engineering and SRE squads to embed security controls directly into our public cloud and GitLab CI/CD pipelines using AI workflows, so that our global payment systems stay secure by design and resilient in production.
Own, design and drive the end to end integration of automated security requirements and validation tooling into high velocity engineering pipelines.
Build custom internal tooling, wrappers and automated controls to replace manual security checkpoints, protecting development velocity while removing friction.
Partner directly with SRE and DevOps teams to establish secure public cloud architecture blueprints, manage Infrastructure as Code security scanning (for example Terraform) and enforce strict network isolation.
Architect and maintain cloud Identity and Access Management controls and enforce Zero Trust boundaries within containerised environments such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Design, prompt engineer and deploy automated security review workflows using LLM APIs to run real time code analysis and give context aware feedback on pull requests.
Establish and enforce technical controls that protect internal and external generative AI features against LLM specific risks, including prompt injection, insecure output handling, model inversion and data poisoning.
Run deep dive source code audits and API security reviews that go beyond automated scanning, surfacing complex logic flaws before they reach production.
Embed within software development and infrastructure sprint planning from the inception phase so that security is built in from day rather than bolted on.
Provide expert level, actionable code and configuration guidance directly to software and SRE engineers.
Mentor junior security, software and SRE engineers to raise technical resilience across the wider organisation.
of progressive engineering experience across Application Security and Cloud Architecture Defence.
(Offensive Security AI Red Teamer).
Balances a builder's engineering empathy with a security first mindset, treating software, SRE and product teams as operational allies rather than a source of friction.
Communicates clearly under pressure, able to distill cloud configuration drift or a live vulnerability into a plain, high impact risk summary for non-technical stakeholders.
Shows creative, novel problem solving across complex, non-standard application and cloud infrastructure challenges within a distributed financial microservices environment.
Resilience and analytical clarity in high-pressure scenarios, with the ability to manage transparency and guide risk-based decisions during active security incidents or compressed financial product launch windows.
Balances technical risk reduction with business enablement, ensuring security infrastructure serves as a competitive advantage that unblocks global revenue and enterprise-client acquisition.
We are excited to get to know you! Throughout our process you can expect to meet with different FlyMates including the Hiring Manager, Peers on the team, the VP of the department, and a skills assessment. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will walk you through the steps and be your “go-to” person for any questions.
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We are excited to get to know you! Throughout our process you can expect to meet with different FlyMates including the Hiring Manager, Peers on the team, the VP of the department, and a skills assessment. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will walk you through the steps and be your “go-to” person for any questions.
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How to apply for Senior Security Engineer (Defensive) at Flywire1?
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What is the salary for this role?
Salary details will be discussed during the interview.
What experience is required?
8+ yrs of experience is required.
Is this position still open?
Yes, currently active and accepting applications.
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