Product Security Engineer II
Affirm- Total compensation
- $133k–$183k Published total compensation range
- Location
- Remote Canada (eligible provinces: AB, BC, MB, NB, NL, NS, ON, PE, SK) Remote eligibility
- Employment
- Full-time Mid-level
About the job
Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, offering buy now, pay later without hidden fees. The Application Security team helps build and launch products that earn customer trust, meet compliance obligations, and reduce business risk.
We are looking for an early-career Application Security Engineer to assess application risks, support vulnerability management, partner with engineering on secure design, and contribute tooling and automation.
What You'll Do
- Partner with product and engineering to identify and frame application security risks.
- Read code, configuration, PRs, logs, and docs to understand systems and risks.
- Contribute code changes, scripts, detections, tests, and automation to improve AppSec workflows.
- Work in GitHub for code review and collaboration.
- Evaluate vulnerabilities from internal testing, bug bounty, tooling, and pen tests; prioritize and remediate.
- Translate recurring findings into secure coding guidance, checklists, and automation.
What We Look For
- 0–2+ years in application security, software engineering, or related.
- Foundational programming in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Kotlin, or similar.
- Comfort reading and reasoning about code.
- Experience with Git and GitHub workflows.
- Hands-on experience building, testing, breaking, or securing software.
- Understanding of web, API, mobile, cloud, and application security risks (e.g., OWASP Top 10).
- Interest in offensive security and vulnerability management.
Compensation
Base pay range: CAD $133,000 - $183,000 per year. Total compensation may include monthly stipends for health, wellness, and tech spending, and benefits including 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage. Equity rewards may be available.
Benefits
Health care coverage (all premiums covered), flexible spending wallets for technology, food, lifestyle, and family forming expenses, competitive vacation and holiday schedules, and an employee stock purchase plan (ESPP).
Location
Remote Canada. Open to candidates in Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, or Saskatchewan.
Application
Apply via the Greenhouse link.
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