Senior Security Enablement Engineer

Location:

Ireland, United Kingdom

Would you like to create the future of a product used by thousands of businesses and millions of consumers? Phorest Salon Software powers over 11,000 hair and beauty salons in Ireland, UK, Germany, Australia, Finland, USA, Canada, UAE and Netherlands and the platform processes 7 million appointments a month for hair and beauty consumers. Phorest is the number 1 salon software brand for premium independent salons in those markets and our next goal is to become a platform upon which other companies can build applications for premium salons.

Our system touches every point of the salon experience. We have the in-salon software desktop application, Phorest Go (the native staff application), online bookings website for salons, and custom native apps per salon. In a typical month, Phorest processes 3 million appointments and we send over 3 million SMS and 4 million emails. We process 200k online bookings per month and over 150 custom built white label native apps.

We’re adding to our security capability and we are looking for someone who can move the needle, not a ticket-taker, but an experienced engineer who takes initiative, builds things, and genuinely partners with our product and engineering teams and the wider business. You’ll use your deep security expertise not only to solve complex problems, but to raise the security capability of the teams around you.

Reactive work eats into time that should be spent on proactive, strategic programmes. You will change that dynamic: by building security tooling and processes that scale, identifying risks and capability gaps, and turning them into impactful improvements. By embedding yourself in our engineering culture you’ll make security an integral part of how teams build and enable engineers to make good security decisions.

You will function primarily as an enabler, working across our stream-aligned engineering teams to build security knowledge, tooling, and practice where the work actually happens. An integral part of your impact will come through coaching others, sharing knowledge and creating scalable practices that raise the security bar for our Engineering Team.

You will own security engineering outcomes - acting as SME, identifying cross-functional opportunities, and driving improvements through to impact.

• Partner with engineering teams to introduce tooling that makes secure coding the path of least resistance. Identify opportunities to improve the security experience and take ownership of delivering improvements that materially reduce risk or friction.

• Collaborate with platform engineers to weave security into CI/CD pipelines, our cloud environment and code review workflows, without creating friction or bottlenecks. Establish reusable patterns and practices that enable teams to adopt secure-by-default approaches.

• Work with engineering leads to identify and prioritise process & tooling improvements against our real risk landscape, building shared agreement on what matters most.

• Proactively identify security knowledge and capability gaps, and build confidence across Phorest engineering through collaborative threat-modelling sessions, documentation, and hands-on pairing, so teams can make good security decisions independently.

• Embed with stream-aligned product teams at key stages like design, architecture review, pre-launch to provide security input as a trusted peer, not an external auditor. Coach teams through complex security decisions, helping them build their own capability.

• Act as a subject matter expert and trusted partner between Security and Product & Engineering, helping teams understand security…