Staff Product Security Engineer

Greenlight Financial Technology is the leading family fintech company on a mission to help parents raise financially smart kids. They are seeking an experienced Staff Product Security Engineer to oversee the security of their consumer products and digital platforms, driving security initiatives and collaborating across teams to ensure compliance and safety in a highly regulated environment.

Responsibilities:

• Lead security architecture/design review and threat modeling sessions with product and engineering teams using STRIDE, PASTA and attack tree methodologies
• Translate threats into actionable, risk-rated engineering remediations prioritized by severity
• Conduct hands-on penetration testing and security assessments across our full product stack producing actionable reports for engineering and leadership
• Red-Team our AI powered products and development tools to test for prompt injection, data exfiltration, MCP server exploitation, and tool misuse. Probe AI guardrails to ensure they hold
• Drive PSIRT Operations by triaging incoming vulnerability reports, leading technical investigations, coordinating remediation with engineering, scoring severity (CVSS), managing coordinated disclosure with external researchers and on-call incidents. This includes managing zero day findings, driving remediation, collaborating with engineering to patch or mitigate with compensating controls
• Shape the posture of our AI assisted development environment defining and enforcing enterprise policies for claude and cursor
• Partner across the organization, sitting in design review with architects, advising product managers and engineering teams on security and compliance implications of new features, briefing executives on emerging AI threats, mentoring junior security engineers and collaborating with the AI team on securing ML pipelines
• Champion Security Culture by running developer training on secure coding with AI assistants, evangelizing security by design for products and ensuring every engineer understands that product security is an enabler and not a gate

Requirements:

• 10+ years of product security experience spanning application security, cloud security, and secure SDLC. you will have full SDLC experience from design through development, deployment and incident response
• Expert level Threat Modeling using STRIDE, PASTA or equivalent across web, mobile, cloud, embedded and AI systems
• Hands-on penetration testing skills across applications, API, cloud infrastructure, and hardware/firmware. You think like an attacker and you can provide it through published research, CVE discoveries, bug bounty results or red-team engagements
• PSIRT operational experience from vulnerability intake and triage. You are fluent in CVE, CVSS, FIRST PSIRT frameworks
• Deep hands down AI security expertise and expert level understanding of OWASP Top 10 for LLM, API, Web, Mobile and have practical experience with MITRE
• Strong hands-on experience in security tools SAST, DAST, SCA, and securing AI development tools specifically Claude and Cursor
• You understand MCP security risks and know how to architect enterprise guardrails that enable safe AI-assisted development. You have defined policies for AI generated code, secrets scanning, and DLP for outbound AI traffic
• Strong programming ability enough to review code, build security tools, automate workflows and be credible with the engineering teams you partner with
• Ability to influence without authority, mentor without managing, and communicate complex risks in a language that resonates with engineers, product managers, legal and compliance and executives alike
• Hardware and embedded security experience with knowledge of secure boot, firmware integrity, hardware root of trust, and IoT threat modeling experience
• Experience in the Financial industry, knowledge of PCI DSS, COPPA or demonstrated ability to learn regulated domains quickly