Senior Security Engineer

About Bridgewater

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors.

Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world’s markets and economies work — using cutting edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles.

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment for excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture.

Explore more information about Bridgewater on our website here.

Our Culture

Bridgewater’s unique success is the direct result of our unique way of being. We want an idea meritocracy in which meaningful work and meaningful relationships are pursued through radical truth and radical transparency. We require people to be extremely open, air disagreements, test each other’s logic, and view discovering mistakes and weaknesses as a good thing that leads to improvement and innovation. It is by continually striving together for the highest levels of truth and excellence that we create meaningful work and meaningful relationships. Within this culture, Diversity and Inclusion is a top priority because it is essential to finding the best talent in the world, enabling our idea meritocracy, and creating an environment where all types of people can thrive. We have a full-time team as well as affinity networks that work on these issues - If you would like to learn more, please let your Bridgewater recruiter know.

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About the Security Group:

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors. The Security Department’s mission is to protect Bridgewater. We constantly evolve our cyber, physical, and staff security practices to meet business needs and stay ahead of the changing threat landscape. 

About the Role:

Our Engineering team is looking to hire a Senior Engineer that has a passion for leading efforts across technology, engineering, and automation. The Senior Engineer will be responsible for ensuring that CI/CD pipelines are secure and enabled for fast and safe development. A key portion of this role is the ability to collaborate with Bridgewater’s DevOps teams to raise awareness and adoption of security best practices, embed these in code, and foster a security-first culture in those teams. This individual will also be responsible for advising teams on infrastructure security architecture, authentication, configurations, policies, and processes. This is a key leadership role on the engineering team, where this individual will be relied on to lead and manage others work efforts. 

You will drive the following responsibilities:

• Build relationships with application, infrastructure, and cloud technology teams to ensure the secure delivery of technology solutions
• Help design and implement software modules, features, and services that are scalable and compoundable
• Demonstrate full competency and comprehensive knowledge of one or more fields within the function
• Perform granular security reviews - apply knowledge to guide testing of these systems to uncover security issues both manually and by developing automated tools
• Independently and collaboratively solve security and technology problems
• Maintain a high security standards through implementation of security controls at both enterprise and project levels
• Navigate ambiguous situations thoughtfully, collaboratively and logically, taking ownership of technical decisions

Position Requirements

• You are passionate engineer, and…
• technology has always been pervasive in your life, whether it be building drones and mini raspberry pi projects or contributing to open source projects
• stay sharp in your craft by keeping on top of emerging technologies, threats, new controls and staying abreast of what’s going on in your field
• insist on seeing your projects through from start to finish
• are open-minded, appreciate direct feedback, and revel in intellectually rigorous environment
• A B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience in security engineering, architecture, design, and/or security operations
• 4+ years of Python or other language application development experience
• Experience with software development technologies like Git, GitHub, GitLab, etc
• Experience working on cloud services in Azure and/or AWS
• Expertise in designing secure networks and systems, solid networking fundamentals
• Experience with multiple operating systems such as Windows and Linux

Preferred Experience

• Experience with Devcontainers, Docker, Kubernetes, and Azure Functions, Lambda and other serverless technologies
• Experience working with Terraform, Ansible, Chef or other IaC tools
• Experience with CSPM tools, such as Wiz
• Experience with ZeroTrust tools, such as Zscaler
• Experience with network security controls such as Firewalls, WAFs, Proxies, Data Loss Prevention, IDS, IPS
• Experience with threat modeling
• Relevant industry certifications such as CISSP, GIAC, Azure Security (AZ-500), or AWS Security

Physical Requirements

This role is offered with fully-remote flexibility and can be performed from anywhere within the United States. This approach is role specific and each team will have some slight variations that we will be able to describe in more detail throughout the recruiting process.

Compensation

The wage range for this role is $335,000 - $475,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 70% - 80% of this wage range.

Why Choose Bridgewater?

It takes all types to make Bridgewater great. We seek a diverse group of innovative thinkers and push them to engage in rigorous and thoughtful inquiry. We develop people through an honest examination of their abilities and performance, enabling personal growth and professional development. We strive to provide you opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential.

In this role, you will grow with us by:

• Learning how to build teams that span levels and organizations
• Developing rich expertise across a broad set of finance operations problems and principles
• Taking ownership of increasingly complex systems and processes.
• Taking on oversight and mentorship responsibilities to grow talent as you gain experience.
• Opportunities to grow your career across Bridgewater depending on your strengths, weaknesses, and experience.

One of our core priorities at Bridgewater is to enable our employees to build a great life and career, and we believe our benefits are an important extension of that philosophy. As such, currently Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits including:

• Health insurance with 100% premium covered and access to additional concierge medical services
• 401(k) plan with generous employer match
• Paid time off, including fully paid parental leave and a competitive PTO package
• Workplace flexibility and access to back up childcare
• Financial assistance for family building support, including adoption and egg freezing
• Workplace wellness, including on-site gyms, free meals and healthy snacks , and meditation rooms
• An engaged and active community that includes many company events, affinity networks, and extracurricular interest groups
• For a full list of Bridgewater benefits, click here.

Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations

This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Bridgewater has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment. Please note that we do not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer