Security Engineer

Forward Financing is a financial technology company based in Boston, Massachusetts, dedicated to unlocking capital for small businesses across America. As an Information Security Engineer, you will architect, implement, and maintain security systems to protect the organization's digital infrastructure, while also developing security automation workflows and participating in incident response.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain security automation workflows, integrating detection, triage, and response across tools (CrowdStrike, SOAR, Slack, etc.) to reduce analyst response times
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Terragrunt) for security tooling and configurations
• Participate in incident response and on-call rotation for security events
• Instrument and measure security operations — track metrics like MTTA/MTTR and build dashboards to demonstrate program effectiveness and ROI
• Evaluate and integrate AI-augmented security tools and workflows to enhance detection and response capabilities

Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience in a Security Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer or similar type role
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar)
• Familiarity with languages like Python, Go, TypeScript/Node.js, or similar
• Experience integrating and managing EDR/XDR platforms
• Comfort working in a small, fast-moving security team where you own problems end-to-end
• Experience with browser-based security, SASE, or ZTNA solutions
• Experience with cloud security posture management (CSPM) tools