At PPRO, our mission is to simplify access to local payment methods and our vision is to enable the sale of goods and services to anyone in the world using their preferred way to pay. We empower partners such as Ant Group, PayPal and Stripe to access new markets, connect with more customers, and accelerate their growth.
Our strength lies in our diverse global team with 50+ nationalities and 10+ international locations- all united around one goal – to deliver the best possible products and services to our partners and customers. While our company mission is to keep innovating global commerce, our internal mission is to #chooseaction, #beopen, #thinkcustomer, #gofurther and #wintogether
The Purpose:
As a Staff Product Security Engineer at PPRO, you’ll play a pivotal role in supporting PPRO’s mission to provide robust, secure, scalable and resilient systems.
This role gives you the opportunity to showcase your product and application security skills, combined with robust software engineering expertise. You’ll solve technical problems relating to security, compliance and resilience, participating in decisions on architecture and technical direction, supporting and mentoring other teams to embed a “secure by design” philosophy.
You’ll develop secure solution architectures and build Security as Code solutions that can be leveraged by developers, ensuring seamless, consistent controls which enable robust, high-velocity delivery. You’ll conduct threat modelling, designing and building repeatable solutions and patterns to address key findings. You’ll provide application and product security support, interfacing across Engineering and Product teams. If you have an interest in how security and counter-fraud controls can work together to better support robust financial services and safeguard customers, this will be a great opportunity for you to have a positive impact at scale across the payments ecosystem.
What you’ll do
- Partner with Engineering and Product teams to integrate security principles, practices, and tools into all stages of the software development lifecycle.
- Design and build reusable Security as Code artefacts, reducing developer friction while improving security outcomes.
- Conduct threat modelling exercises to identify and address risks in critical applications and systems.
- Provide application and product security guidance, supporting teams in adopting secure design and coding practices.
- Assist in developing and maintaining security patterns and solutions aligned with PPRO’s technical strategy.
- Contribute to security assessments and application penetration testing initiatives, implementing recommendations for risk mitigation.
- Collaborate on cross-team security projects, enhancing PPRO's security posture at scale.
- Continuously monitor emerging security trends and technologies to drive proactive improvements.
- Collaborate and grow in a dynamic and autonomous environment, providing cross-functional support in a lean, agile environment.
What we look for in you:
- Results-oriented, highly collaborative, pragmatic and proactive, and with a continuous improvement mindset.
- Deep experience in application/product security and security architecture, with a strong background in software development.
- Experience designing and building scalable security controls, architecture and services, taking strategic decisions and having a wide impact
- Strong expertise in cloud (preferably AWS, and GCP) and container security (Kubernetes, Docker)
- Deep understanding of designing and building DevSecOps and CI/CD security controls, in line with best practices.
- Great problem solving abilities
- Developer mindset and empathetic approach to find innovative “win-win” solutions
- Security qualifications a bonus
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills and fluent proficient in English
What's in it for you?:
Hybrid working - We offer a hybrid structure with a 3 days / week on site expectation, so you can strike the balance between office and home working. In addition to our 30-day holiday allowance, we also provide a work from abroad policy, enabling employees to work remotely for up to another 30 days per year.
Insurance - Because better safe than sorry - we want our employees to benefit from various insurances including accident insurance, disability insurance, direct insurance (bAV) and travel insurance.
Gym membership - PPRO helps contribute towards the costs of your gym membership, supporting your physical fitness journey while easing the burden on your wallet
Enhance Family Leave - We understand the importance of family - that's why we offer enhanced family leave to support you during key life moments.
Professional and personal development - We provide leadership cafes, on-the-job training, and access to LinkedIn learning to help you gain knowledge beyond your role. We also offer German language courses to our non native speakers employees.
Mental Health Platform - We’ve teamed up with a top well-being platform to provide one-on-one therapy, chat therapy, therapist-led courses, guided meditations, and more.
Our Principles:
We get things done: We are courageous; we take ownership, make decisions and get things done.
We act with trust and integrity: We listen first and challenge respectfully. We seek out and leverage diverse perspectives. We welcome and offer honest and open feedback, always assuming positive intent
We put the customer first: We are laser focused on delivering outstanding outcomes for our customers. We put the customer at the heart of what we do.
We make things better: We boldly explore new ideas and have an unwavering commitment to continuous improvement.
We work as a team: We collaborate closely and value team success over individual achievement.
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Last updated on Dec 5, 2024