Principal Product Security Engineer

The Tide Security Engineering team is made up of three core areas: Product Security, Threat Detection & Response, and Identity.

Product Security (this role!) consists of application and cloud security experts. Their mission is to protect the products we build, covering everything from secure design reviews to threat modelling and penetration testing, ensuring security is embedded from the ground up.

Threat Detection & Response focuses on protecting the company by building a robust detection and automation platform. We’re proactive in our defence, constantly hacking ourselves to improve our security posture and staying ahead of emerging threats. Our goal is to make Tide resilient against the ever-evolving threat landscape.

Identity is responsible for managing Tide's staff identity platform, ensuring that access to systems and infrastructure is secure, seamless, and aligned with modern security practices. The team uses strategies like zero trust, multi-factor authentication, and granular role-based access controls to safeguard our internal operations.

While each area has its own focus, collaboration is key - it's why we share the same Slack channel and hold our standups together as one cohesive team, ensuring alignment and seamless communication across all security functions.

- Regularly dive deep into mobile, web app technologies in order to understand feature development and proactively hunt for vulnerabilities

- Be proficient in securing cloud-native applications, ensuring that security best practices are applied consistently across our cloud environment

- Be proficient in threat modelling and guide developers in secure design principles to prevent vulnerabilities from being introduced in the first place

- Help remediate vulnerabilities through strategic initiatives, writing patches, or creating understandable and actionable vulnerability tickets.

- Be the subject matter expert across a wide range of security areas, particularly in Application Security.

- Make security invisible when possible, believing that gatekeeping and blocking product teams should be avoided in favour of enabling secure development.

- Mentor and coach junior engineers, sharing your knowledge to help raise the security bar across the organisation