Lead Security Engineer

Build and scale security engineering practices for Benepass's benefits platform.

• •As a Lead Security Engineer at Benepass, you will build, operationalize, and scale the security engineering practices that protect our benefits platform and the sensitive employee, benefits, and financial data it processes.
• •Key Responsibilities Work across application security, cloud security, security architecture, supply chain security, detection engineering, and vulnerability management.
• •Partner deeply with the teams building our web and mobile applications, backend services, system integrations, card and banking workflows, infrastructure as code, and data platforms.
• •Turn risk reduction into scalable guardrails, automated controls, and clear engineering guidance.
• •Requirements Security Engineering Technical Lead: Experience with setting strategy while staying hands-on with design reviews, code, automation, tooling, and operational follow-through.
• •Application Security Builder: Deep experience with secure SDLC practices, threat modeling, API security, SAST/code scanning, CI/CD security integrations, security QA, vulnerability management, and developer-friendly security UX.
• •Cloud Security Partner: Comfortable partnering with Platform Engineering on IAM, KMS, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Securi