Best Egg

Best Egg is the online credit and financial wellness platform that is owned and operated by Marlette Holdings, Inc.

Senior Lead Security Engineer – Bot Management

Security EngineerSecurity EngineerFull TimeRemoteTeam 501-1,000Since 2014H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

95 days ago

Salary

$120K - $140K / year

Bachelor Degree5 yrs expEnglishAWSCloudMicroservicesPython

Job Description

• Design, deploy, and optimize bot-mitigation and service-abuse controls, including WAF configurations, rate limiting, behavioral/velocity checks, challenge/attestation frameworks (e.g., Cloudflare Turnstile), device-telemetry validation, and API/form hardening. • Develop and maintain automated detection capabilities leveraging IP/ASN intelligence, identity patterns, traffic analytics, and anomalous behavior models. • Lead bot-related incident response activities, including triage, containment, root-cause analysis, and long-term remediation planning to support platform stability and operational continuity. • Partner closely with Engineering, DevSecOps, Fraud Strategy, Fraud Operations, Data, and Product teams to integrate preventive and detective controls across the customer funnel. • Drive the long-term bot-mitigation roadmap and capability vision in partnership with Engineering, Product, Fraud, Data, and DevOps, ensuring alignment with enterprise risk-reduction, platform resiliency, and operational efficiency goals. • Establish monitoring, reporting, and multi-signal decisioning (signal-fusion) mechanisms to provide visibility into bot activity, control effectiveness, system performance impacts, and operational risk indicators. • Evaluate new tools, technologies, and techniques related to bot detection, behavioral analytics, device attestation, signal fusion, and automated-abuse prevention; develop recommendations based on threat trends, performance considerations, and business requirements. • Produce architectural documentation, detection logic specifications, technical standards, and operational runbooks that support scalable and repeatable defense capabilities. • Guide engineering teams in embedding resilient security patterns into web and API designs and influencing product flows to reduce automated-abuse exposure. • Mentor team members and contribute to the broader security engineering and service-abuse management knowledge base.

Job Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent work experience.
  • 5+ years of experience in Security Engineering, Application Security, Detection Engineering, or Fraud/Abuse/Risk Engineering.
  • Strong understanding of web architecture, microservices, RESTful APIs, and common automation-abuse vectors.
  • Experience with WAF/CDN platforms, API security, or cloud-native security constructs (AWS preferred).
  • Ability to analyze high-volume web data to identify automated, anomalous, or abusive patterns.
  • Familiarity with automation or scripting languages (e.g., Python) for detection logic, data analysis, or security-control deployment.
  • Experience with CI/CD processes, infrastructure-as-code, and security automation tools is a plus.
  • Demonstrated ability to produce high-quality technical documentation, architectural diagrams, and detection logic specifications.

Benefits

  • Pre-tax and post-tax retirement savings plans with a competitive company matching program
  • Generous paid time-off plans including vacation, personal/sick time, paid short-- term and long-term disability leaves, paid parental leave, and paid company holidays
  • Multiple health care plans to choose from, including dental and vision options
  • Flexible Spending Plans for Health Care, Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts
  • Company-paid benefits such as life insurance, wellness platforms, employee assistance programs, and Health Advocate programs
  • Other great discounted benefits include identity theft protection, pet insurance, fitness center reimbursements, and many more!

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