[Hiring] Lead Security Engineer @Prelim

Role Description

As the first dedicated security hire at Prelim, you will help define the security program for the next generation of banking. Your responsibilities will include:

• Secure SDLC: dependency scanning, static analysis, security review of high-risk changes, and coordinating annual penetration tests.
• Partner with DevOps on IAM, secrets management, network architecture, logging, and detection.
• Policies, risk assessment, and roadmap: Decide what a company our size and risk profile actually needs, and defend that reasoning to auditors, bankers, and internally.
• Own security questionnaires, vendor risk assessments, and customer security reviews.
• Endpoint management, access reviews, phishing resistance, offboarding hygiene.
• Own SOC 2 Type II end to end: control design, evidence collection, auditor management.
• Owning incident response, from writing the plan, running the tabletops, and leading if it's ever real.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in security engineering, with breadth across appsec, cloud security, and compliance.
• Hands-on: you can read code, write scripts, and configure cloud controls yourself.
• You've owned or heavily contributed to a SOC 2 audit (or ISO 27001 / equivalent).
• Experience answering enterprise or financial-institution security reviews.
• Strong written communication.
• Judgment about proportionality: you know which risks matter at our scale and which controls are theater.

Requirements

• Fintech or banking-vendor experience; familiarity with FFIEC, GLBA, or bank third-party risk management.
• Experience as a first or early security hire.
• Detection engineering / SIEM experience.
• Familiarity with core banking integrations or handling of PII/KYC data flows.

Benefits

• Equity.
• Sponsored 401K.
• Parental leave.
• Fully paid health, vision, and dental insurance.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Remote work stipend.
• Life-style stipend.
• Twice-yearly company retreats.

Company Description

Prelim is a San Francisco and New York City-based startup that operates with fully remote positions across the US, helping banks onboard their customers. Our platform is designed to streamline the account opening process for both consumers and businesses, accelerating speed-to-market and enhancing the customer experience for financial institutions. We value diversity and inclusion; people of all backgrounds are welcome to join our mission to transform banking.