# Lead Security Engineer at Prelim

- Company: Prelim
- What the company does: Prelim helps financial institutions open accounts faster with digital onboarding, account maintenance, and 50+ banking integrations. Trusted by banks and credit unions. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://prelim.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote | US
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $240K to $260K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-31
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/prelim/7d46d026-aadc-4560-96ea-0cbe63f7d984
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/prelim-lead-security-engineer/

## About the role

Secure SDLC: dependency scanning, static analysis, security review of high-risk changes, and coordinating annual penetration tests. Teach engineers to catch issues before you have to. Owning incident response, from writing the plan, to running the tabletops, and leading if it's ever real. Banks have breach-notification expectations in their contracts. You'll know them cold.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years in security engineering, with breadth across appsec, cloud security, and compliance
- Hands-on: you can read code, write scripts, and configure cloud controls yourself
- You've owned or heavily contributed to a SOC 2 audit (or ISO 27001 / equivalent)
- Experience answering enterprise or financial-institution security reviews
- Strong written communication
- Judgment about proportionality: you know which risks matter at our scale and which controls are theater

Tags: Engineering