Greenlight3mo ago

Senior Security Engineer, SecOps

Bengaluru, KarnatakaFull Timesenior

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Greenlight is the leading family fintech company on a mission to help parents raise financially smart kids. We proudly serve more than 6 million parents and kids with our award-winning banking app for families. With Greenlight, parents can automate allowance, manage chores, set flexible spend controls, and invest for their family’s future. Kids and teens learn to earn, save, spend wisely, and invest.

At Greenlight, we believe every child should have the opportunity to become financially healthy and happy. It’s no small task, and that’s why we leap out of bed every morning to come to work. Because creating a better, brighter future for the next generation depends on it.

Greenlight's Security Operations team safeguards our mission-critical fintech infrastructure through advanced threat detection, innovative internally built AI tooling, comprehensive incident response, and strategic security architecture that protects the sensitive financial data of the families and children we serve. As a Senior Security Engineer, you will be a hands-on practitioner responsible for detecting, investigating, and responding to security threats across our cloud-native platform. You'll play a critical role in our day-to-day security operations triaging alerts, leading incident investigations, managing vulnerabilities, and continuously improving our detection capabilities.

This role is ideal for someone with strong security analyst fundamentals who is eager to grow their engineering skills and contribute to building and improving security tooling over time.You will collaborate closely with engineering, infrastructure, and product teams to ensure security is woven into everything we build. The ideal candidate is a reliable operator who thrives on solving problems, takes ownership of their work, and is motivated to continuously learn and expand their technical skillset in a fast-paced fintech environment.

Serve as a frontline responder for security incidents — triage alerts, lead investigations, coordinate cross-functional response efforts, and drive post-incident reviews and remediation

Monitor and tune security tooling and detection rules to identify threats across our cloud infrastructure and applications; reduce false positives and improve signal quality

Perform proactive threat hunting to identify attack patterns, anomalous behavior, and gaps in detection coverage

Support and maintain security controls across our AWS environment, including monitoring for misconfigurations, access issues, and infrastructure risks

Contribute to building and improving security automation, scripts, and internal tooling to reduce manual overhead and enhance operational efficiency; grow into deeper engineering contributions over time

Own the enterprise vulnerability management program, establishing risk-based prioritization frameworks and driving organization-wide remediation strategies

Spearhead AI/ML integration and automation initiatives to transform security operations, reduce manual overhead, and enhance detection capabilities

Assist with and contribute to AI-driven security initiatives and automation efforts within the team

Support ongoing security compliance, audit, and certification programs (e.g., PCI, SOC2)

Work closely with engineering, infrastructure, and product teams to provide security guidance and support security-by-design practices

Participate in team knowledge sharing, document runbooks and playbooks, and contribute to continuous improvement of SecOps processes

Participate in on-call rotation and serve as a first responder to security event escalations

6+ years of experience in security operations, incident response, or a security analyst role, preferably in cloud-centric environments

Strong hands-on experience with incident response and investigation alert triage, forensic analysis, root cause determination, and remediation

Solid understanding of common attack vectors, threat intelligence fundamentals, and attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)

Working knowledge of cloud security fundamentals (AWS) IAM, VPC, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub, or equivalent services

Familiarity with TCP/IP protocols, network analysis, and common network/security tooling (SIEM, EDR, IDS/IPS)

Demonstrated ability to identify exploits, vulnerabilities, and misconfigurations and drive remediation in cloud and server environments

Growth mindset genuine interest in developing engineering skills (scripting, automation, tooling) and growing beyond a pure analyst role

Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and respond to security event escalations

Team player comfortable collaborating across India and US teams (primarily PST timezone)

Experience with scripting languages (Python, PowerShell, etc.)

Experience with public cloud security (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Red/Blue team experience

Security certifications (e.g., CISSP, Security+, CEH, GIAC)

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Posted: February 10, 2026
First seen: March 26, 2026
Last seen: May 11, 2026

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Scored at: May 11, 2026

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Greenlight Financial Technology offers a debit card and app for kids and teens, empowering parents to teach financial literacy through features like allowance automation, chore management, and spending controls.

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750

Founded

2014

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