Security Engineer, Cloud
💰 $130,000 – $190,000/yr
Job Description
About Ramp
Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. The company automates how over $100B in annualized spend flows in and out of 50,000+ companies by authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books. Ramp's mission is to empower ambitious companies with financial infrastructure that delivers measurable results—the median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year.
Ramp hires builders with high agency and high urgency. The company prioritizes what you've built over where you trained, and every team member owns problems end-to-end while making consequential decisions that shape outcomes.
About the Role
The Security Engineering team at Ramp ensures the platform remains the most secure place for customers to collect, manage, and deploy their business financial information. This role focuses on three core areas:
- Building products with security as a foundational principle
- Detecting and responding to threats before they cause harm
- Leveraging security as a growth enabler
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive the cloud security roadmap by reviewing deployments and identifying improvement opportunities
- Design and build security-focused infrastructure primitives, integrating them into existing products and development processes
- Lead remediation of prioritized security issues across the technology stack
- Partner with infrastructure, data, and DevOps teams to design and deploy inherently secure solutions
- Contribute to threat detection and incident response capabilities
What You Bring
Required Experience:
- Minimum 5 years building production software
- Minimum 3 years hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure (Terraform required)
- Strong sense of ownership—ability to drive projects from conception through production scaling
- Thrives in fast-paced environments with continuous learning mindset
Preferred Qualifications:
- Python (Flask) and advanced Terraform expertise
- Experience with multi-cloud environments (Azure, GCP)
- Track record improving developer experience and security posture simultaneously
- Background in cloud security best practices and compliance frameworks
For more insight into Ramp's engineering culture, technology stack, and values, visit the Engineering Blog.
💰 Compensation not publicly listed. Market estimate for similar roles: from $130K, varying by experience and location.