Senior Product Security Engineer

Toast is driven by building the restaurant platform that helps restaurants adapt take control and get back to what they do best: building the businesses they love.

SEAR at Toast focuses on two things: actionable intelligence collection analysis and delivery to engineers and hunting the adversaries who would damage and defraud Toast its customers and its partners. We bake security into every layer of our products from the first sprinkle of an idea to the final serving of a fully-baked solution. Our team is tasked with searching out and degrading the operations of persistent motivated attackers.

Like master chefs we blend cutting-edge technology with strategic thinking implementing bespoke and industry-standard solutions for intelligence processing at scale. By joining SEAR youll be part of the kitchen crew that keeps our customers trust from going stale. Youll tackle complex challenges that have real-world impact helping to serve up a safer more secure digital experience for businesses that count on Toast every day. Its not just about pattern-matching its about crafting a recipe for digital trust that keeps our customers coming back for more.

A day in the life (Responsibilities)Select implement design and build services and tools to manage and deliver security intelligence across Toast platforms.

• Identify triage and provide remediation guidance for application vulnerabilities with a specific focus on anti-abuse activities.
• Improve developer tooling and adoption to build a more robust SSDLC which integrates security and anti-abuse features.
• Practice a #OneTeam attitude to help other Toast teams make informed security-conscious decisions when building new public-facing software.
• Assist incident response teams with application security expertise and tools especially related to abuse and fraud.
• Build threat models on Toast applications and use cases.
• Guide in the design and maintenance of robust and resilient network and application architecture.
• Collaborate to improve information gathering and sharing across all Toast products.
• Leverage cutting edge AI tools to enhance your development workflow improve velocity and help pioneer new approaches to building - contributing to a culture of innovation and productivity across the team.

What youll need to thrive (Requirements)

• Minimum 5 years of experience in application security and security engineering.
• Experience building and maintaining scaled Java web services in production.
• Experience developing script applications in Python for scheduling and backend data handling.
• Experience leveraging LLM AI features for software development and/or security operations.
• Strong understanding of cloud application architecture.
• Successful history of being a subject matter expert to guide colleagues toward better security outcomes especially related to abuse fraud and legal concerns.
• Previous security experience working with fintech applications and associated requirements.
• Strong understanding of privacy security and cryptography patterns and when to apply them especially when handling customer information (such as PKIs access management data tokenization and anonymization).

**This role requires two days per week in our Dublin office**

Nonessential Skills/Nice to Haves

• Offensive security training and certifications (e.g. OSCP OSWE OSEP)
• Edge Security solution like WAF API Security
• Adversary Emulation proficiency (red/purple teaming)
• Cloud and container security technologies
• SSDLC tooling (e.g. SAST/DAST/SCA)
• Scaled data handling in RDBMS streaming and columnar stores
• Metrics and charting software proficiency
• Mobile apps/threats (iOS Android) and their particular abuse vectors
• Knowledge in security of operating systems networking and protocols
• Securing financial technologies and associated requirements

AI at Toast

At Toast one of our company values is that were hungry to build and learn. We believe learning new AI tools empowers us to build for our customers faster more independently and with higher quality. We provide these tools across all disciplines from Engineering and Product to Sales and Support and are inspired by how our Toasters are already driving real value with them. The people who thrive here are those who embrace changes that let us build more for our customers; its a core part of our culture.

Our Total Rewards Philosophy
We strive to provide competitive compensation and benefits programs that help to attract retain and motivate the best and brightest people in our industry. Our total rewards package goes beyond great earnings potential and provides the means to a healthy lifestyle with the flexibility to meet Toasters changing needs. Learn more about our benefits at Toast Uses AI in its Hiring Process

Throughout the hiring process our goal is to get to know you. We use AI tools to support our recruiters and interviewers with tasks like note-taking summarization and documentation of interviews to ensure they can be fully focused on your conversation. All hiring decisions are made by people.

Diversity Equity and Inclusion is Baked into our Recipe for Success

At Toast our employees are our secret ingredientwhen they thrive we restaurant industry is one of the most diverse and we embrace that diversity with authenticity inclusivity respect and humility. By embedding these principles into our culture and design we create equitable opportunities for all and raise the bar in delivering exceptional experiences.

We Thrive Together

We embrace a hybrid work model that fosters in-person collaboration while valuing individual needs. Our goal is to build a strong culture of connection as we work together to empower the restaurant community. To learn more about how we work globally and regionally check out: today!

Toast is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive hiring process. As part of this commitment we strive to provide reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities to enable them to access the hiring process. If you need an accommodation to access the job application or interview process please contact .

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