An Elite Technical Leader: You have 10+ years of experience in security engineering, with a proven track record of architecting secure systems across complex technical surface areas in both startup and scaled enterprise environments
A Practitioner, Not Just a Theorist: You have driven security outcomes at scale. You know how to balance pragmatism with bulletproof defense-in-depth, and you excel at navigating the technical trade-offs required in a fast-moving engineering organization
A Security Expert: You possess a deep, native understanding of sensitive, highly regulated datasets and the unique, high-stakes challenges of handling protected critical information
A Force Multiplier: You know how to code, architect, and influence. You are equally comfortable writing secure infrastructure-as-code, threat-modeling a distributed system, or standing in front of an enterprise customer's CISO to defend Candid's security posture
Our values
We spend at least as much time with our coworkers as we do with our closest friends + family - if we intend to do the most important + challenging work of our lives, it’s important that these folks energize us, support us, inspire us, and push us to do our best work. This is what you can expect of your teammates at Candid (in no particular order)
We put our customers first
We take care of each other and ourselves
We anchor on outcomes and work relentlessly and creatively to achieve them
We collectively prioritize building a diverse and inclusive workspace
We believe humility is our greatest strength
We are candid, kind, and committed
We strive to be the most prepared person in the room
We are truth seekers