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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 34 days Verygoodsecurity's roles stay open a median of 51 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Verygoodsecurity's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Verygoodsecurity
- high 16 stale, 1 reposted of 20 open
- Hiring momentum
- 26 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-23
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Verygoodsecurity's own lever board since 2026-08-04. Full hiring picture for Verygoodsecurity.
About this role
As a Staff Software Engineer at VGS, you will lead the design and development of secure payment infrastructure, focusing on creating reliable APIs and ensuring the system's security and scalability. Your role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to build and maintain high-scale systems that manage sensitive payment data, while also implementing observability practices and automating platform provisioning.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 5/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Verygoodsecurity as an employer.
What you need
- 10+ years of experience in complex, large-scale distributed systems
- Advanced proficiency in AWS ecosystems leveraging Terraform
- Strong experience with Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, and GitOps workflows
- Strong coding skills in Python for automation
- Experience implementing Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry at scale
- Solid understanding of cloud security, API Gateways, load balancing, and network isolation
Nice to have
- Experience with tokenization, payment processing, or security products
- BA/BS degree
- Experience designing mandate, credential-provisioning, authentication, attestation, or cryptogram-based workflows
- Experience applying AI developer tools or agentic automation to engineering workflows
What you get
- Competitive salary
- 401 (k) with a 4% match and immediate vesting
- Early equity
- Internet Stipend
- Learning Stipend
- Office set-up stipend
Worth weighing
- No specific salary listed
- Remote-first philosophy with hybrid options for local employees
- Focus on compliance and security as core deliverables, not just administrative tasks
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Listed by Verygoodsecurity on their lever job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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