Security Engineer II- Infrastructure

About Rippling

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365 - all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.2B from the world’s top investors - including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock - and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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About The Role Rippling is on a remarkable growth trajectory, and our engineering team of 1000+ professionals is at the core of this success, shipping code dozens of times every day. As an Infrastructure Security Engineer II, you will play a pivotal role in safeguarding our infrastructure. You will collaborate with infrastructure, corporate security, detection and response and product security teams to implement robust guardrails and create seamless, secure pathways. Your expertise will help define the future of our infrastructure security strategy, emphasizing secure defaults and end-to-end automation.

What You'll Do

• Implement Robust Security Controls: Secure our development and deployment ecosystem including AWS, Containers & Service Mesh, Data Stores, AI & ML, Network & Traffic, Supply Chain, etc.
• Support Secure Architecture Transition: Assist platform and infrastructure teams in securely transitioning to a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
• Build with AI: Use AI tools as a force multiplier for security engineering, from prototyping detections and automations to accelerating investigations and improving team workflows. Continuously look for opportunities to replace repetitive manual work with durable systems.
• Drive Data Security Initiatives: Lead efforts to enhance data security across the organization, ensuring compliance and resilience.
• Define Actionable Security Metrics: Establish and disseminate key security metrics that offer clear insights and drive improvements.
• Tackle Complex Challenges: Dive into critical areas, rapidly identifying and resolving security issues.
• Conduct Security Reviews: Participate in security design reviews and threat modeling exercises to preemptively address potential vulnerabilities.

Qualifications

• Extensive Experience: 5+ years in security or software engineering within a cloud environment.
• Programming Proficiency: Skilled in Python or Go for security-related development tasks.
• AI Fluency: Comfortable using AI tools to accelerate investigation, analysis, detection engineering, and security automation. Able to use AI as a practical building tool while applying strong judgment, validating outputs, and knowing when deeper manual investigation is required.
• AWS Security Acumen: In-depth knowledge of AWS security controls and services.
• Problem-Solving Prowess: Ability to thrive in high-pace environments, identifying impactful areas and independently driving solutions.

Additional Information

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accomodations@rippling.com

Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office at least three days a week under current policy to be an essential function of the employee's role.

This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here. A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.