Principal Platform Security Engineer

At Early Warning, we’ve powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle®, Paze℠, and so much more. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses.

Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.

Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.

The Principal Platform Security Engineer is a hands-on enterprise technical leader responsible for defining the long-term technical vision, secure target states, architecture patterns, technical standards, and control strategy for platform security across products, platforms, and shared services. This role leads principal-level engineering efforts that bridge product, infrastructure, and security, ensuring that secure engineering is embedded throughout the software and infrastructure lifecycle. The roleestablishesscalable security capabilities, influences enterprise technical direction, and drives adoption of secure-by-default patterns across multiple systems and pillars.

• Owns the enterprise technical vision for platform security engineering across shared services, internal platforms, and engineering workflows.
• Defines and drives secure target states, enterprise-scale design patterns, engineering standards, and control strategies spanning multiple products, platforms, and technology pillars.
• Shapes long-range technical direction for secure-by-default platform capabilities, balancing risk reduction, scalability, resilience, and developer experience.
• Leads the most complexsecurityengineering decisions involving platform security, shared services, lifecycle controls, and systemic risk reduction.
• Partners with senior engineering, infrastructure, product, and security leaders to align long-term roadmaps, investment priorities, and enterprise design direction.
• Establishes reusable frameworks, reference implementations, technical guardrails, and scalable automation that are adopted broadly across the organization.
• Evaluates emerging technologies,engineering options, and operating models to guide enterprise security engineering strategy.
• Resolves highly ambiguous, cross-domain technical challenges and provides clear recommendations on risk, tradeoffs, sequencing, and implementation approach.
• Influences enterprise technical standards, major engineering decisions, and control adoption models across multiple teams and domains.
• Leads technical response strategy for significant platform security issues with a focus on durable correction and systemic improvement.
• Mentors senior engineers and serves as a recognized technical authority across the organization.
• Supports the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

• Typically has 15 or more years of experience ordemonstratedportfolio consistent with experience required of the role.
• Expert-level experience across platform, infrastructure, software, and security engineering, including architectural and implementation leadership.
• Significant experience owning technical direction for broad engineering domains, enterprise initiatives, orhighly complex cross-functional programs.
• Significant experience defining target states, standards, design patterns, reference architectures, or control strategies adopted at scale.
• Demonstrated ability to influence…