Forward Financing

Forward Financing is a financial technology company based in Boston, Massachusetts with team members throughout the United States, Dominican Republic, and Canada. The company is on a mission to unlock the capital that fuels small businesses across America. Forward has been recognized as a Best Place to Work by Built In and is certified as a Great Place To Work.® We’re investing in our employees, technology, and customer experience – with long-term success in mind every step of the way. Want to learn more? Visit: forwardfinancing.com/careers

Security Engineer

Full TimeRemoteTeam 529Since 2012Company Site

Location

United States + 2 moreAll locations: United States, Canada, Dominican Republic

Posted

6 days ago

Salary

Not specified

No structured requirement data.

Job Description

As an Information Security Engineer, you'll play a vital role in architecting, implementing, and maintaining robust security systems to safeguard our organization's digital infrastructure. You'll design proactive security solutions, resolve complex vulnerabilities, and drive continuous improvement in our security posture. 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.

Job 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.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive total rewards package, including but not limited to: medical, dental, vision, commuter benefits, a flexible time-off policy, paid parental leave, 401k match for US employees, wellness reimbursement, volunteering days, annual professional development budget, and charitable donation match.
  • Core Values
  • Drive the Mission: We believe in financial opportunity for underserved small businesses. We say “yes” when others say “no.”
  • Keep It Real: We value direct communication, candid feedback, and authenticity. We are an open book.
  • Act With Kindness: We create an environment where caring is cool and helping is the norm. We do the right thing.
  • Shoot for Extraordinary: We are inspired by innovative thinking and continuous improvement. We never settle for yesterday’s best.

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