# Principal Information Security Engineer

Hiring organization: [SentiLink](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/sentilink)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/2cdb969e-39e2-4025-bc20-0b0d83782c29

Listed on SentiLink's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Lead / Staff / Principal
- Location: United States
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 220000 – 280000 USD per year

## Summary

SentiLink is seeking a hands-on security leader to design and build security tooling, conduct penetration testing, and guide infrastructure hardening across their identity verification platform. This role suits experienced security engineers who can balance technical depth with operational judgment in a fast-moving fintech environment.

_Our summary, not SentiLink's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon EKS, Amazon RDS, Amazon Web Services (AWS), C++, Go, Penetration Testing, Python, Rust, TypeScript

## Required

- 8+ years in security engineering or related roles
- Proficiency in at least one systems language (Go, Rust, C++)
- Proficiency in at least one higher-level language (Python, TypeScript)
- Proven track record shipping production software end-to-end
- Deep AWS infrastructure expertise including IAM, EKS, RDS, networking, and managed services
- Ability to identify security misconfigurations and vulnerabilities across cloud architectures and application code
- Experience conducting or building tooling for penetration testing, vulnerability assessment, or red team activities
- Track record building security automation and tooling from scratch
- Ability to work independently on ambiguous problems
- Strong communication and partnership skills with non-security engineers

## Nice to have

- Experience building or deploying LLM-based agents or AI-assisted security tooling
- Prior experience at a security product company or security-forward engineering organization
- Fintech, identity, or fraud detection experience
- Industry certifications (OSCP, OSCE, GPEN, GXPN)
- Experience with detection engineering or SIEM platforms
- Published security research, CVEs, or open source security tooling contributions
- Experience supporting compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, SOC 2, PCI DSS)

Apply on SentiLink's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sentilink/48ebd3af-54cd-429a-ae59-256feea94cdf/application