Staff Security Engineer

At Forge (NYSE: FRGE), we know our team is our greatest asset. As technology innovators in the private market, our vision is to deliver a richer future for everyone. We live that vision through our values of being bold, accountable, and humble. We experience the value that our vision brings to the world every day, helping the teams behind the greatest innovations of our generation, from space travel to artificial intelligence, and more.

With liquidity solutions, exclusive data and insights, a custody offering, and a vibrant marketplace, Forge’s goal is to build the best-in-class technology infrastructure to power a global private market that is transparent, accessible, and seamless for companies, their employees, and investors. Through Forge, employees can sell their private shares, employers can reward shareholders with pre-IPO liquidity and individual and institutional investors can participate in private unicorn growth.

Forge's differentiated global marketplace addresses rising demand among individual and institutional investors for exposure to private company stocks and is building a growing network effect.

Our ability to offer these powerful financial solutions has generated incredible interest from investors, demand from customers, and a need to grow our team to meet the needs of more companies, teams, and innovators in this way.

The Role:

Our Staff, Security Engineers are both a visionary leader and hands-on builder. As one of Forge’s senior individual contributors, Staff, Security Engineers work on our hardest problems. They venture beyond comfortable approaches to pioneer new spaces and inspire others as to what is possible.The security organization is solving interesting problems across a wide range of businesses, from protecting Forge web properties to improving the SDLC to end-point protection to creating security dashboards that provide deep awareness of what is happening and where. Your vision will be instrumental in building innovative solutions that will change the private shares space around the world.

As the Staff, Security Engineer, you will lead security architecture across all production capabilities, will own the vision and push the strategic security roadmap vision for Forge by building and providing the best-in-class security solutions for protecting both to our customers and our organization’s information and data.

Location: Hybrid in in our San Francisco, CA office

Responsibilities:

• Assess, write, and deploy production code to continuously mature the Forge’s security resiliency

• Conduct thorough reviews to analyze security considerations, providing expert guidance for aligning solutions with the standards of a highly regulated financial institution

• Drive cybersecurity initiatives such as secure SDLC, security operations, encryption, and identity management ensuring alignment with industry best practices

• Improve data visibility and Integration by integrating various data sources to enhance alerts and dashboards, strengthening our ability to detect, respond, and mitigate security threats effectively

• Serve as Cybersecurity subject matter expert for cybersecurity matters, providing expert guidance on customer protection, research against evolving threats, and industry trends. Guide internal stakeholders on effective cybersecurity strategies

• Ensure compliance through monitoring and enforcing regulations and establishing best practices, collaborating with auditors to maintain a robust security posture for the organization

Qualifications:

• Demonstrate exceptional communication skills with a strong sense of ownership and drive, fostering effective collaboration within the team and across the organization

• Exhibit experience in dealing with challenges, making decisions with a sense of urgency, and the ability to navigate complex issues efficiently. Have a bias for action coupled with empathy, driving the resolution of difficult technical issues, dependencies, and questions

• Showcase the ability to deep-dive into data, identify and quantify opportunities, and design sustainable improvements and solutions

• Proactively seek out creative ways to deliver added value within the constraints of time and resources, contributing to the continuous improvement of processes and outcomes Display an appetite for change, pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved within the organization

• Experience with Event-Driven architectures is a big plus

• Physical requirements: operate a computer for 8 hours per day; give and receive detailed information through verbal and written communication

For residents of San Francisco/Bay Area, CA or New York, NY the annual salary range for this role is $180,000 - $220,000 + annual bonus. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, bonus, and other factors.

Upon offer, we conduct background checks that include employment and education verification, state, and county criminal history searches.

Forge is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to supporting a diverse and inclusive workplace. Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.