Product Security Engineer

🔥 About this role

We're looking for a Product Security Engineer to build and maintain our security foundation. You'll be responsible for ensuring the security of our platform, protecting customer data, and establishing security practices that scale with our growth. This is a critical early security hire where you'll have significant impact and ownership.

What You'll Do

Conduct security audits, vulnerability assessments, and penetration testing across our infrastructure and applications

Implement and maintain security controls for our cloud infrastructure (AWS), databases, and data pipelines

Build security into our development lifecycle - review code, APIs, and new features for security implications

Monitor, detect, and respond to security incidents and vulnerabilities

Manage access controls, secrets management, authentication, and authorization systems

Drive compliance initiatives to meet enterprise customer requirements

Establish security best practices and educate the engineering team on secure development

Secure our API integrations and ensure safe handling of financial data and PII

📎 Key qualifications

What We're Looking For

3+ years of experience in security engineering, preferably in B2B SaaS or fintech environments

Strong understanding of cloud security (AWS), infrastructure security, and application security

Experience with securing APIs, databases, and distributed systems

Knowledge of compliance frameworks (SOC 2, GDPR, ISO 27001)

Hands-on experience with security tools for monitoring, scanning, and incident response

Ability to work autonomously and build security programs from the ground up

Strong communication skills to work across engineering and product teams

Experience with DevSecOps practices and CI/CD security

Knowledge of Setup, tracking with Security Tools (MDM, Agents etc.)

Nice to Have

Experience with billing/payment systems or financial data handling

Security certifications (CISSP, CEH, OSCP, or similar)

Experience with data infrastructure

Background in building security for early-stage startups

💰 Compensation

INR 25-30 lacs

ESOPs

The range displayed reflects the minimum and maximum salaries for the position. Within the range, individual pay is determined by various factors including - job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

🌏 Location

Hybrid - 2 days per week (Tuesday, Thursday)

Office Location: Indiranagar, Bengaluru.

Address: 3rd Floor, A wing No 1, Carlton Towers, HAL Old Airport Rd, HAL 2nd Stage, Indiranagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560008.

Interview Process

Our interview process is designed to be structured, transparent, and efficient:

R0 – Recruiter Screening: Quick conversation to assess basic fit and role expectations.

Round 1 – Introductory Chat: Focuses on understanding your past experience, projects, and ownership. We recommend reviewing the job description & CEO’s recorded videos before this step.

Round 2 – Take-Home Assignment & Discussion: Evaluates your technical-depth, problem-solving approach and how you think through real-world problems.

Reference Checks: We request contact details of two former direct managers. The hiring manager will connect with them to better understand your working style and alignment with Zenskar’s culture.

Round 3: A final round-up of all the conversations

The process may vary slightly depending on the role and whether we feel it would be useful for you to connect with additional members of the team

🎯 How to apply

Please email your CV to [hidden] send along links to relevant projects while applying, if you have any. Include links to relevant projects, if applicable.

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