About the role

Halter enables farmers to grow and graze more grass through the use of virtual fencing. Every farm is deployed with communication infrastructure and a collar for each animal, which is then paired with a mobile and web application. The result is tens of hours of labour saving per week, improved animal welfare, and increased productivity and sustainability of the land.

To ensure we can keep the system airtight and continue to deliver on this mission we are looking to bring on a Lead Application Security Engineer.

With Halter's system now serving hundreds of thousands of devices in the field, and spanning over 40 engineers across five teams, we need to make sure we have the right ways of working in place to deliver a reliable and secure product as we expand globally.

As the first in this role you have the opportunity to define how we think about and operate application security here at Halter. You will have ownership over everything from security practices, to education of the team, to threat detection, compliance, third-party assessment, penetration testing, and everything in between.

In this role you will be hands-on, operating with deep technical expertise, a high level of agency, as well as using strong communication skills. You will work across the entire technical stack, from the mobile code, to our backend systems, all the way to the firmware running on the collar. You can expect a high level of collaboration working as part of our ‘context over control’ culture to introduce best practices that mature our security posture while ensuring we maintain the speed of delivery we value as a company.

As part of this you will work primarily in the AWS ecosystem across a mix of managed and self managed services. You will work alongside a small but deeply experienced platform engineering team, all with a strong mindset of IaC, a love for autonomy, and a passion for their craft.