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Swile is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to lead the design and implementation of security platforms that protect products, data, and engineering infrastructure. This is a highly technical, hands-on role requiring deep expertise in security architecture and cryptography.
You will operate across two strategic horizons:
1. Strengthen security today: continuously harden applications, access controls, and data-protection mechanisms against evolving threats. This includes working closely with Engineering teams to identify vulnerabilities and implement defensive measures across the platform.
2. Build the privacy architecture of tomorrow: move beyond traditional perimeter and access-control security by designing systems where sensitive data is cryptographically isolated, minimally exposed, and increasingly usable without being directly revealed. This involves architecting next-generation security systems that fundamentally reduce the value of stolen data.
The core objective is not simply to make Swile harder to breach, but to make a breach increasingly uninteresting by reducing the amount of usable data available to attackers. You will design and influence company-wide security standards, mentor engineering teams on security best practices, and drive architectural decisions that embed security into the platform from the ground up.
This role requires someone who can balance immediate security hardening with long-term architectural vision, communicate complex security concepts to non-security engineers, and operate with significant autonomy and influence across the organization.
