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Founding Security Engineer at Nclusion – Palo Alto, California

Nclusion
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Employment Type:Full-Time

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About Nclusion
Nclusion is on a mission to provide traditional financial services to 1.5 billion people worldwide without access today. Without a secure way to save, invest, or transfer money, individuals are not empowered to accumulate short or long-term wealth. We're changing that by bridging the gap between traditional banking and the communities that need it most.

About the Role
As a Security Engineer at Nclusion, you’ll be a hands-on builder at the intersection of product security, payments security, and cloud/infra security. You’ll partner with engineering, product, hardware, and operations to design secure-by-default systems, reduce risk without slowing delivery, and raise the bar on trust—across mobile apps, backend services, payments/Stablecoin infrastructure, and card/device programs.

What You’ll do
  • Design & review secure architectures for login/auth flows, payments, KMS/HSM usage, card/device interactions, and data protections.
  • Threat model features (web, mobile, backend, hardware) and turn risks into pragmatic controls, test cases, and guardrails.
  • Build security automations (SAST/SCA, CI policy gates, IaC validation, secret scanning, SBOM/provenance, dependency hygiene).
  • Harden cloud/infra on GCP: identity boundaries, network segmentation, workload identity, service accounts, least privilege, secrets.
  • Ship observability for trust: structured logs, audit trails, detection hooks, incident runbooks, and post-incident improvements.
  • Own incident response drills with engineering; triage, contain, learn; drive reliability & fraud-prevention signals into products.
  • Partner on compliance (PCI-DSS/SOC2/ISO): help define scope, automate evidence, and keep “secure by design” as the default.
  • Enable teams with secure patterns, library wrappers, and “paved roads” (auth clients, tokenization, crypto APIs, KMS helpers).
  • Contribute across the stack (TypeScript/Node/React-Native; Terraform; container/K8s) and collaborate with hardware/firmware when needed.

What You Bring to the Table
  • B.S. in Computer Science or a related field
  • 6+ years of experience in Security Engineering
  • Familiarity with payments, PCI concepts, etc.
  • PCI-DSS/SOC2/ISO27001 participation, evidence automation, and SDLC governance
  • Experience with cryptography & key management (KMS/HSM, tokenization, envelope encryption)
  • Experience supply-chain security (SBOM, Sigstore/cosign, SLSA); mobile security (React-Native)
  • Experience with detection engineering (SIEM/OTel), incident response/forensics, red/purple teaming
  • Interest or experience in hardware/embedded security (smart cards, POS, secure elements)
  • Fluent technical writing; empathy for users and regulators; bias to action is a plus.

Yearly Salary: $150,000 - $260,000

Job Location

Palo Alto, California, United States

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