Senior Security Engineer

About the role

Stake is looking for a Senior Security Engineer to join its Technology team in Sydney. You will combine deep software engineering expertise with strong security judgement to shape how secure software is built across the company.

Key responsibilities

• Define and evolve secure engineering practices that become the default across Stake's technology organisation.
• Lead complex application security initiatives spanning multiple engineering teams, improving resilience of applications, infrastructure and the software development lifecycle.
• Influence architecture and technical design decisions early, helping teams solve difficult security challenges without slowing delivery.
• Build security tooling, automation and guardrails that enable engineers to identify and resolve risks before they reach production.
• Raise the security capability of the engineering organisation through mentoring, practical guidance and secure engineering education.

Required profile

• Proven experience leading complex application security initiatives across multiple engineering teams.
• Deep experience in application security, secure software engineering and modern cloud‑native architectures.
• Ability to shape technical direction, establish engineering standards and influence decisions without formal authority.
• Strong communication skills to convey complex technical risks clearly and build trusted relationships.

Required skills

• Application security
• Secure software engineering
• Cloud‑native architectures
• DevSecOps automation
• Security tooling and automation

What we offer

• Professional development allowance
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Childcare allowance
• Wellbeing support
• Annual leave swap days
• Discretionary performance bonus
• Stake product discounts and trading credit