About the role:You will represent the Security Team as a point of contact and source of knowledge, working with management, InfoSec and Legal teams, and across the R&D department.
What you will be doing:- Own and innovate the security strategy for Forter’s use of Generative AI, ensuring high development velocity while handling rapidly evolving threats.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to embed security best practices early, balancing protection with development velocity.
- Perform risk assessments and negotiate with other teams on where to invest effort.
- Design, build, promote, and maintain security infrastructure and tools used by all of Forter's engineering teams.
- Mentor and build relationships with “Security Champions” in Engineering to design and build secure applications
Who You Are (Must-Haves)- 5-6+ years of experience in the relevant fields:
- 3+ years experience in a security-focused role
- 3+ years working with production systems in public cloud environments (AWS / GCP / Azure / Kubernetes) OR
- 3+ years experience with programming and infrastructure-as-code (Python, NodeJS, Go, Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
- Deep understanding of security across every layer of the tech stack (OS, Network, Application, Database, Storage, etc.)
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to drive cross-team security initiatives
Nice-to-Have- Experience with security in the AI model lifecycle, LLMs and agentic AI
- Experience with threat modeling, security audits, penetration testing, or SAST tools
- Contributions to security research, blogs, talks, or open-source security projects
Benefits include:- Competitive salary
- Quarterly company bonus
- Private health insurance, including vision and dental coverage
- Restricted Stock Units (RSU’s)
- Generous PTO policy
- Half day Fridays, every Friday
- Work from home allowance
- Pension plan with an option for salary sacrifice
Trust is backed by data – Forter is a recipient of over 10 workplace and innovation awards, including:
- Great Place to Work Certification (2021, 2022, 2023)
- in NYC (2022)
- #3 on of “Most Innovative Finance Companies” (2022)
- Forbes Cloud 100 (2021, )
- SAP Pinnacle Awards “ ” (2023)
- Fintech Breakthrough Awards – Best Fraud Prevention Platform (2023)