Farther
Senior Software Engineer, Platform Security & Reliability
Hybrid - New York +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted May 29, 2025
- Location
- Hybrid - New York
New York, New York, United States - Experience
- 8-15+ years of software engineering experience.
About the job
Own and secure Farther’s AWS infrastructure platform, establishing reusable standards, compliance controls, and proactive reliability monitoring for engineering teams.
What you'll do
- Design and maintain AWS access, data protection, security monitoring, and compliance controls.
- Build shared platform services and infrastructure as code, and review engineering system designs for security and reliability.
- Set and document platform standards and advise teams on secure system design.
What they ask for
- Deep, hands-on AWS experience building production systems end to end.
- Proven ownership of AWS cloud security, including API access, IAM, network boundaries, storage, encryption, secrets, and audit trails.
- Infrastructure as code experience using CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation; monitoring and alerting practice including detective controls and SLIs/SLOs.
- Proficiency in TypeScript, Python, or Scala; fluent daily use of AI coding tools; strong written communication.
Nice to have
- AWS Certified Security - Specialty or Solutions Architect - Professional; experience with accredited security compliance protocols or financial-services regulatory frameworks (SEC Regulation S-P, GLBA).
- Threat modeling, vulnerability management, pen-test remediation, SRE, production PostgreSQL operations, or fintech/regulatory-industry experience.
Tools
AWS, GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, X-Ray, RUM
AI focus
Daily use of AI coding tools, with ownership of and ability to explain, defend, and assess the work produced.
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