Security Engineer, Privacy
Ramp
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About Ramp
At Ramp, we’re rethinking how modern finance teams function in the age of AI. We believe AI isn’t just the next big wave; it’s the new foundation for how business gets done. We’re investing in that future — and in the people bold enough to build it.
Ramp is a financial operations platform designed to save companies time and money. Our all-in-one solution combines payments, corporate cards, vendor management, procurement, travel booking, and automated bookkeeping with built-in intelligence to maximize the impact of every dollar and hour spent. More than 50,000 businesses, from family-owned farms to e-commerce giants to space startups, have saved $10B and 27.5M hours with Ramp. Founded in 2019, Ramp powers the fastest-growing corporate card and bill payment platform in America, and enables over $100 billion in purchases each year.
Ramp’s investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Thrive Capital, Sands Capital, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Greylock, Redpoint, and ICONIQ, as well as over 100 angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies. The Ramp team comprises talented leaders from leading financial services and fintech companies—Stripe, Affirm, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Capital One—as well as technology companies such as Meta, Uber, Netflix, Twitter, Dropbox, and Instacart.
Ramp has been named to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies list and LinkedIn’s Top U.S. Startups for more than 3 years, as well as the Forbes Cloud 100, CNBC Disruptor 50, and TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential Companies.
Your Role as Security Engineer, Privacy
As Ramp’s founding Security Engineer, Privacy, you will build a privacy program that powers Ramp’s growth while earning trust from customers and prospects.
What You’ll Do
- Build privacy-focused application primitives and integrate them into our existing products
- Partner with other engineering teams to design and deploy solutions which are inherently privacy-centric and secure
- Improve, implement, and deploy data retention and anonymization strategies across our environment
- Track shifting legal standards (alongside with Ramp’s Privacy Counsel) and update Ramp systems and processes to match
What You Need
- Minimum of 4 years of experience building software
- Minimum of 2 years of experienced focused on platform, privacy, and/or security
- Desire to work in a fast-paced environment, continuously grow, and master your craft
- Ability to turn business and product ideas into engineering solutions
Nice-to-Haves
- Working knowledge of data-protection legal requirements
- Experience with Python (Flask), React, and AWS (ECS, as well as other core services)
Benefits (for U.S.-based Full-time Employees)
- 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you
- Partially covered for your dependents
- One Medical annual membership
- 401k (including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp)
- Flexible PTO
- Fertility HRA (up to $10,000 per year)
- Parental Leave
- Unlimited AI token usage
- Pet insurance
- Centralized home-office equipment ordering for all employees
- Health and Wellness stipend
- In-office perks: lunch, snacks, drinks, and more
- Budget for intra-office travel
- Relocation support to NYC or SF (as needed)
Other Notices
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Ramp Applicant Privacy Notice.
Key skills/competency
- Privacy Engineering
- Data Protection
- Security Architecture
- Application Security
- Legal Compliance
- AWS Services
- Python
- React
- Data Anonymization
- Software Development
How to Get Hired at Ramp
- Research Ramp's culture: Study their mission, values, recent news, and employee testimonials on LinkedIn and Glassdoor.
- Tailor your resume for Ramp: Highlight privacy engineering, data protection, and fintech experience relevant to Ramp's platform.
- Showcase your impact: Quantify achievements in building secure systems or implementing privacy programs in past roles.
- Prepare for technical discussions: Be ready to discuss Python, React, AWS, and privacy-focused application design principles.
- Articulate your privacy philosophy: Demonstrate a deep understanding of data protection legal requirements and their practical application.
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