<div><strong>About the Work</strong></div><div>As a Platform Engineer, you'll help maintain and grow the infrastructure that powers Planning Center's applications and services. You'll start with clear, well-defined projects and close support and take on more ownership as you grow, eventually managing key pieces of our cloud infrastructure. We're looking for someone reliable and collaborative, who's excited to grow their craft and their understanding of how Planning Center builds and runs platform services.</div><div><br><strong>Responsibilities</strong></div><ul><li>Handle infrastructure work across a growing scope — from hand-picked, low-urgency familiarization tasks (AWS services, Datadog monitoring, deployments, low-impact automation) toward independently managing significant components such as container orchestration, database performance tuning, and cloud-service optimization</li><li>Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure issues with autonomy, seeking guidance on necessary changes and, in time, on architecture decisions</li><li>Implement and troubleshoot scalable, resilient cloud architectures using AWS services such as ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, and SNS</li><li>Engage in infrastructure-as-code projects and play an active role in CI/CD pipeline management, ensuring smooth, efficient deployments</li><li>Analyze and optimize cost and performance, balancing performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency</li><li>Grow in alignment with company infrastructure patterns and best practices</li><li>Engage in and help refine the team's collaborative processes</li><li>Mentor less-experienced engineers and facilitate learning, sharing knowledge through tech talks and documentation</li><li>Proactively identify and implement infrastructure improvements, such as automating manual processes or enhancing security</li><li>Consistently ask questions and provide feedback to teammates that demonstrate an effort to understand their work — growing toward feedback that is high-quality and actionable</li><li>Actively seek feedback and act on it constructively, continuously enhancing their technical and collaborative skills</li><li>Participate in on-call rotation, starting as a secondary observer and growing into a full participant</li><li>Proactively communicate your own needs and the needs of the work you're responsible for</li></ul><div><br><strong>What You Bring</strong></div><ul><li>5+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure on AWS</li><li>Proven ability to lead infrastructure projects from design through rollout and launch</li><li>Expertise in distributed systems, deployment orchestration, and failure detection / handling</li><li>Hands-on experience with AWS Elastic Container Service, containers, and workload scheduling</li><li>Strong track record in reliability, incident response, and building maintainable, debuggable systems</li><li>Broad technical impact across systems through architecture, code review, mentorship, and team-level technical leadership</li></ul><div><br><strong>Nice to Have</strong></div><ul><li>Experience hosting and maintaining Ruby on Rails applications at scale</li><li>Experience with deployment safety systems such as anomaly detection, progressive delivery, and automated rollback</li><li>Familiarity with event-driven architectures for deployment observability and notifications</li><li>Experience managing Infrastructure-as-Code at scale, including cloud governance and IAM in AWS</li><li>Background building developer platforms and internal tools that improve developer experience</li><li>Experience with core AWS services such as Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, and others</li></ul><div><br><strong>Who We Look For</strong></div><div>The best fits for any role on the Planning Center team are people embodying our <strong>Core Values:</strong></div><ul><li><strong>Engage with Humility: </strong>We actively participate with openness and receptiveness. We are ready to listen, learn, and speak thoughtfully and kindly— regardless of role or experience.</li><li><strong>Invest in our team: </strong>We give our time and energy to the success of those around us—collaborating well, making space for diverse perspectives, and sharing knowledge freely.</li><li><strong>Do Our Best Work:</strong> We strive for excellence and continuously look for ways to improve both our individual contributions and our team’s output.</li><li><strong>Focus on Customer Impact:</strong> We advocate for our customers in our decision-making and ensure our work creates meaningful, positive value for them.</li><li><strong>Think Holistically, Work Iteratively:</strong> We consider the bigger picture while making steady, practical progress— thinking big and working small.</li></ul><div><br>We believe the strongest teams are built from diverse backgrounds and experiences. We’re committed to cultivating that diversity and creating an inclusive, supportive environment where you can do your best work.&nbsp;</div><div><br><strong>Our Hiring Process</strong></div><div>We want this process to feel clear, respectful, and human. You’re getting to know us just as much as we’re getting to know you!</div><div><br>Applications will be accepted until <strong>August 11th, 2026 at 8:00am PT</strong>. We review applications on a rolling basis and may close the posting early once we’ve built a strong pool of candidates, so we encourage you to apply early!</div><div><br>Below is an outline of the steps in our hiring process.</div><ul><li><strong>Step One</strong>: Apply with your resume and complete the application questions so we can learn more about your background and experience. <em>Our application questions are a chance for us to get to know you, so feel free to answer them the way you might in a cover letter.&nbsp;</em></li><li><strong>Step Two</strong>: Phone screen with our Talent Acquisition team to get to know one another and discuss work and culture</li><li><strong>Step Three</strong>: Initial technical interview with two of our platform engineers, including a technical exercise and time to discuss your background</li><li><strong>Step Four</strong>: Final technical interview with a few team members, including a technical exercise and more in-depth discussion on your experience and interest in joining the team</li><li><strong>Step Five:</strong> Pending all goes well, we'll extend an offer</li></ul><div><br><strong>Compensation and Logistics&nbsp;</strong></div><ul><li>This is a US-based role; candidates must reside in and be authorized to work in the United States. We are not able to sponsor H-1B visas at this time.</li><li>Candidates must be willing to travel three times each year to connect with the rest of the team</li><li>The annual salary range for this position is $200,000 - $235,000.</li></ul><div><em>Note: If you've applied for this same role within the past 9 months, we kindly ask that you do not reapply at this time. We thoughtfully review each application, and while we may not move forward now, we encourage you to apply for future opportunities that align with your experience.</em></div><div><br><strong>Benefits</strong></div><div>We love our team. It's one of the core pillars that guides how we work, which is why we invest deeply in your well-being, growth, and balance. Here are some highlights (you can explore all our benefits <a href="https://www.planningcenter.com/careers">here</a>):</div><div><br><strong>Get paid:</strong></div><ul><li>401(k) with a 3% company contribution after 90 days</li><li>Charitable giving match up to $2,000/year</li><li>Up to $300 monthly coworking stipend</li><li>Allowance for continued education</li></ul><div><br><strong>Get out:</strong></div><ul><li><strong>Paid Fridays off, all year long!</strong></li><li>A month-long sabbatical every five years</li><li>A week off between Christmas and New Year's</li><li>A paid week each year to serve with a globally focused nonprofit</li><li>Two weeks of paid vacation (growing to three over time)</li></ul><div><br><strong>Be healthy:</strong></div><ul><li>95% medical and 100% dental premium coverage</li><li>$200/month toward physical fitness and mental health</li><li>Paid sick time</li></ul><h3><strong>About Planning Center</strong></h3><div>Planning Center exists to help churches build stronger, more connected communities.</div><div>Since 2006, over 80,000 churches have trusted our tools to care for their people—whether that’s communicating with their congregation, organizing important information, or coordinating the details that make ministry happen.</div><div><br>We’re an independent, profitable company with no outside investors. That means we get to focus on building products thoughtfully, caring for our team well, and making decisions for the long term.&nbsp;</div><div><br>Our team is fully remote, working together daily through tools like Slack, Asana, Linear, Notion, and Zoom. Three times a year, we gather in Carlsbad, CA to connect in person, strengthen relationships, and align on where we’re headed.</div>

Platform Engineer

<strong>ABOUT US</strong><br>Compassion is looking for a DevOps AWS expert who is passionate about making an eternal difference utilizing technology. We need someone who can join our other AWS staff in managing and maturing our AWS platform, while still mentoring our internal customers to pursue ever increasing value from AWS utilizing strong DevOps practices!<br><br><strong>WHAT WILL YOU DO?</strong><ul><li>Maintains a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ, maintains a courteous, Christ-like attitude in dealing with people within and outside of Compassion, and faithfully upholds Compassion’s ministry in prayer.</li><li>Acts as an advocate to raise the awareness of the needs of children. Understands Christ’s mandate to protect children. Commits to and prioritizes child protection considerations in all decision-making, tasks and activities across the ministry. Abides by all behavioral expectations in Compassion’s Statement of Commitment to Child Protection and Code of Conduct. Reports any concerns of abuse, neglect or exploitation of children through Compassion’s internal reporting process and appropriately supports responses to incidents if they occur.</li><li>Matures DevOps disciplines and champions the lean agile mindset for major initiatives regarding issues such as Test Driven Development, flow, and systems thinking.</li><li>Continually improves integration of complex infrastructure builds with application deployment processes across major projects and systems.</li><li>Troubleshoots complicated technical problems relating to information systems, providing insight and guidance to other specialists.</li><li>Analyzes, designs and evaluates large automation scripts and systems.</li><li>Researches new technologies that will be efficient, effective, and highly scalable.</li><li>Coaches and provides expertise, and may oversee the work of other professionals and support staff in the business analysis discipline.</li></ul><br><strong>WHAT DO YOU BRING?</strong><ul><li><strong>AWS production experience</strong> — Extensive experience operating and optimizing AWS environments at scale</li><li><strong>Cloud Operations</strong> — Deep understanding of AWS Cloud Operations life cycle management including security, governance, compliance, and disaster recovery models</li><li><strong>Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA)</strong> — Hands‑on experience implementing and operating AWS Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA), including governance, multi‑account architecture, security controls, and automation patterns</li><li><strong>AWS Lattice & advanced networking</strong> — Experience designing and operating service‑to‑service communication using AWS Application Networking (AWS Lattice), including secure connectivity, traffic routing, service mesh patterns, cross‑account communication and hybrid networking.</li><li><strong>AI/ML platform engineering</strong> — Experience driving innovation by integrating AI/ML capabilities into AWS platform engineering, including designing and maintaining foundational services. Skilled at leveraging AI to enhance operational efficiency, accelerate delivery workflows, and improve platform reliability.</li><li><strong>Automation expertise</strong> — Strong automation skills, eliminating manual work whenever possible, e.g., Infrastructure as Code, pipelines, and operational scripting</li><li><strong>Workload migration</strong> — History of migrating complex workloads onto AWS</li><li><strong>Kubernetes & Serverless</strong> — Ability to design, build, and operate workloads in Kubernetes and AWS serverless architectures</li><li><strong>Python engineering</strong> — Strong Python development skills for operational tooling, automation scripts, and AWS Lambda functions</li></ul><br><strong>WHY WORK HERE?</strong><ul><li><strong>The mission:</strong> Join a team that is motivated to release children from poverty in Jesus’ name.</li><li><strong>Our benefits:</strong> Receive generous paid time off, 10% contribution to a 403(b) retirement fund on top of your salary, excellent healthcare coverage, free short-term professional counseling, and more.</li><li><strong>Spiritual growth:</strong> Participate in regular chapel services, prayer groups, and department devotionals.</li></ul>

Sr. DevOps Engineer

<strong>About the Role</strong><br>An Engineering Manager in the Acquisition Portfolio leads a team of 5-8 full-stack engineers, bridging technical expertise and product partnerships. The day involves being a hands-on technical partner to product management and tech leads, overseeing delivery, and maintaining hands-on technical understanding. This includes actively guiding architecture, code quality, and system design decisions to ensure scalable, high-quality solutions aligned with business objectives.<br><br><strong>Overall Tasks and Responsibilities</strong><br>Overall, the role requires providing strategic direction across teams, establishing operating practices, priorities, and metrics aligned with organizational goals. The manager interprets and applies company-wide policies within the context of engineering delivery, driving effective execution and continuous improvement. They collaborate closely with Product, business leaders, and senior stakeholders to translate complex compensation and advisor needs into well-designed technical solutions. Additionally, the manager leads technical discussions and forums that shape direction, ensure clarity, and support the delivery of business and technology outcomes. The team maintains and builds highly integrated products and experiences, requiring cross-functional collaboration across Thrivent.<br><br><strong>DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:</strong><br><strong>Designing Solutions</strong><br><ul><li>Review technical solution design and architecture and provide guidance and direction.</li><li>Take part in system design and architecture conversations with the team to land approaches to deliver solutions.</li><li>Review technical solution and supports the execution of the solution.</li></ul><br><strong>Developing Software</strong><br><ul><li>Has developed software. Can read code and stays up to date on best practices.</li><li>Ensure code reviews are completed - Problem solving and analytical skills.</li></ul><br><strong>Learning and applying new techniques</strong><br><ul><li>Promotes and empowers sharing ideas, best practices, etc. They need to make space so teams can take time for these activities.</li><li>Anticipates and analyzes trends in technology and assesses the impact of emerging technologies on the business.</li></ul><br><strong>Collaborating within team</strong><br><ul><li>Supports the team agile practices and learning events/trainings.</li><li>Helps break down barriers for the team.</li><li>Engages in sprint demos; understands the desired and actual outcomes as well as the technology delivered by the team.</li><li>Partner with Product Manager on initiatives/features/epics and provides clarity on desired outcomes as well as technical expertise.</li><li>Collaborates with Product Manager for strategies, operating plans, targets and measures for product groups.</li><li>Creating a positive team environment where individuals have psychological safety and work collaboratively while understanding, respecting, challenging and appreciating each other’s ideas.</li></ul><br><strong>Collaborating across teams</strong><br><ul><li>Supports and empowers teams to broker solutions across products.</li><li>Understands how the product integrates with other products and ensures consistency in approach to work towards a common goal/outcome.</li><li>Builds strong working relationships with peers across teams.</li><li>Proactively identifies cross team challenges and works to empower teams in solving collaboratively.</li></ul><br><strong>Collaborating across the organization</strong><br><ul><li>Align your team with the priorities of the company and the technology organization for a given product area.</li></ul><br><strong>Setting product/platform technology strategy</strong><br><ul><li>Participates in setting the product and platform technology vision, strategies, initiatives, roadmaps, objectives and alignments.</li><li>Represents the business value of technology upgrades, etc. and influences prioritization in the product roadmap.</li><li>Empowers the team to select the right tool and platforms for the given product area.</li></ul><br><strong>Defining Engineering standards/patterns</strong><br><ul><li>Collaborating with Engineers to ensure Engineering practices and be an advocate to bring the engineering disciplines.</li><li>Promoting engineering practices and continuous improvement such as develops and observability.</li><li>Contributes to the creation of enterprise frameworks and patterns.</li></ul><br><strong>DevOps</strong><br><ul><li>Define and supports the development lifecycle processes.</li><li>Supports the team and removes barriers to resolving production incidents/problems.</li><li>DevOps continuously evaluated through observability, monitoring and alerting.</li><li>Understands the health of technology products and promotes prioritization of work to maintain and continuously improve.</li><li>Serve as an escalation point in product level support for ongoing maintenance and production issues.</li></ul><br><strong>Selecting & Managing Technology Vendors</strong><br><ul><li>Be an advocate to the team to define criteria for selecting the right platform/technology.</li><li>Guides the team to build consensus on an approach and driving a build vs buy decision with the team. In a buy decision, works with the team to decide on criteria and vendor selection.</li><li>Execute or manage the overall technology solutions, platforms for the product groups and associated vendor relationships.</li></ul><br><strong>Coaching Engineers</strong><br><ul><li>Holding regular 1:1s with team members and team meetings.</li><li>Provides constructive feedback, guidance and coaching to help engineers grow their skills and experience.</li><li>Provides career planning advice to engineers and creates development plans to help them achieve their career goals which leverages their skills and capabilities and provides them with learning opportunities.</li></ul><br><strong>Recruiting/building talent</strong><br><ul><li>Leads the process of selecting and engaging the right consulting partners.</li><li>Planning in advance for future people needs for the product groups, collaborate with the other teams on the recruitment process.</li><li>Recruits, develops, and sustains a high-performing team while promoting a culture of shared accountability, operational excellence, and partnership across the organization.</li><li>Models Thrivent’s leadership competencies – courage, collaboration, and commitment by demonstrating resiliency, working together to make the best decisions, and holding yourself and others accountable.</li><li>Supports and/or develops an environment in which Thrivent employees and colleagues are focused on continuous improvement, exceptional employee engagement, and an unwavering commitment to our clients. Shapes and/or supports a culture that represents the Thrivent purpose, promise and values, ensuring that Thrivent’s trust and reputation remain strong with its clients.</li><li>Manage a team of direct and indirect staff.</li></ul><br><strong>QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:</strong><br><em><strong>Required:</strong></em><br><ul><li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience.</li><li>8+ years of progressively responsible positions in Information Technology including 5+ years’ experience in IT discipline, e.g., customer relationship management, portfolio strategy and roadmap development.</li><li>3+ years of leadership experience in all aspects of a specific IT discipline, e.g. IT/LOB customer relationship management, portfolio strategy and/or demand management.</li><li>3+ years’ management/supervisory experience in specific IT functional area discipline, e.g. applications development or equivalent skills leading major technical projects with accountability for enforcing talent management needs and performance.</li></ul>

Mgr, Digital Engineering

<div><strong>About Us</strong></div><div>Virtuous is on a mission to inspire global generosity by helping nonprofits build better relationships with their donors. We offer a modern software platform that provides mid-sized charities with elegant tools for fundraising, marketing, volunteerism, and online giving.</div><div><br>Our talented team is driven to disrupt the status quo in the nonprofit sector. We are hungry, humble, and committed to delivering best-in-class software solutions, customer success interactions, and sales experiences to the world’s leading nonprofits&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>We also recognize the importance of giving back and making a difference in the communities where we live and work. That's why we practice radical generosity by volunteering at nonprofits or going the extra mile for our team and the customers we serve. We take our work seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We believe that life is too short not to love what you do.&nbsp;</div><div><br>The ideal candidate for Virtuous embodies our values by:</div><ul><li>Asking questions with a spirit of curiosity</li><li>Giving feedback freely with candor &amp; grace, welcoming it in return</li><li>Displaying a passion for philanthropy and technology&nbsp;</li><li>Serving with joy. Everyone is willing to make the coffee!</li><li>Celebrating the wins &amp; milestones of others&nbsp;</li><li>Assuming good intent &amp; demonstrating trust in others&nbsp;</li><li>Pursuing relationships with people different from themselves &amp; creates space to be human</li></ul><div><strong><br>Position Summary</strong></div><div><br>We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) to join our growing Engineering team. This role will report directly to Engineering leadership and collaborate cross-functionally with stakeholders across Product, Design and Engineering.</div><div><br>You'll help us build, scale, and maintain the web applications that power the Virtuous platform — keeping them fast, reliable, and observable as our traffic and data grow, while also shipping the net-new features that win deals and deepen the value customers get from the product. You should feel comfortable across the full stack, from crafting intuitive UIs to designing robust backend services, but gravitate toward the harder questions: How does this behave under load? Where does it fall over, and how do we know before our customers do? How do we ship quickly without sacrificing reliability?</div><div><br>It's essential that you already know and actively use modern AI development tools and that you're curious about how to make them work harder for you. We treat AI agents as a core part of how strong engineers work today: a force multiplier across the entire stack. But we never trade speed for quality. You stay firmly in the driver's seat, owning the correctness, design, and long-term health of everything you ship, and bringing the judgment to know when to lean on a tool, when to question it, and when a hard problem still demands your own thinking.</div><div><br>Our current tech stack is Python/Django on the backend, with PostgreSQL as our primary datastore. On the frontend, we're actively migrating from React/GraphQL toward a leaner, server-side architecture built on HTMX. We're continually evaluating tools and frameworks to support a growing platform, and a willingness to explore new technologies and offer thoughtful input into technical and infrastructure decisions is important to us.</div><div><strong><br>Responsibilities</strong></div><div><br>You'll own meaningful, high-impact areas of the platform end to end — not just contribute to them. Specifically, you can expect to:</div><ul><li>Own the performance and scalability of our data layer as we onboard larger and more complex organizations — indexing, query optimization, read replicas, partitioning, and connection pooling — so onboarding and day-to-day usage stay fast and reliable even at enterprise scale</li><li>Own our asynchronous and background-processing infrastructure (e.g., Celery), keeping it healthy, observable, and able to keep pace with growing data volume</li><li>Design, build, and ship net-new, revenue-driving features across the full stack — from messaging and bulk-sending capabilities to richer reporting, analytics, and email experiences</li><li>Help reinforce and extend our move to a server-side, HTMX-based frontend, improving both developer velocity and front-end reliability</li><li>Design, build, and maintain scalable web applications used by nonprofit organizations around the world</li><li>Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to understand user needs and translate them into technical solutions</li><li>Write clean, testable, and efficient code across the frontend and backend</li><li>Contribute to architectural discussions and help drive technical decision-making across the platform</li><li>Participate in code reviews, and help foster a culture of learning and improvement</li><li>Own the reliability, performance, and observability of the systems you work on — instrument them well, set meaningful alerts, and treat production health as a first-class part of the work</li><li>Provide thoughtful feedback on technology choices as we evaluate changes across our stack</li><li>Support a culture of experimentation, iteration, and continuous delivery</li></ul><div><strong><br>You Must Have</strong></div><ul><li>6+ years building modern web applications, including meaningful time spent running and scaling them in production</li><li>Proficiency in Python and frameworks like Django (or similar)</li><li>Hands-on experience with AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc.) as part of your regular development workflow</li><li>Experience operating cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and infrastructure-as-code tooling (e.g., Terraform)</li><li>Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and frontend frameworks such as React or Vue</li><li>Strong understanding of relational databases such as PostgreSQL — not just querying them, but tuning them: indexing, query optimization, and strategies for scaling (read replicas, partitioning, connection pooling, etc.)</li><li>Experience integrating with RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs</li><li>Solid DevOps fundamentals: CI/CD pipelines, containerization, infrastructure monitoring, and hands-on experience scaling applications under real load</li><li>Comfort with observability tooling (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting) and a habit of using it to debug and prevent production issues</li><li>A love for building quality products that delight users and solve real problems</li><li>Strong communication skills and a team-first mindset</li></ul><div><strong><br>Nice to Haves</strong></div><ul><li>Familiarity with container orchestration (Kubernetes) or modern PaaS deployment</li><li>Experience defining and working against SLOs/SLIs, or otherwise formalizing reliability targets</li><li>Experience working in a SaaS or B2B product company</li><li>Familiarity with C# / .NET</li><li>Prior experience in the nonprofit tech space</li><li>Contributions to open-source projects or relevant technical blogs</li><li>Excitement about helping teams grow and mature their engineering practices</li></ul><div><strong><br>What We Offer</strong></div><ul><li>Market competitive pay leveraging Carta data</li><li>Employee recognition through Bonusly (birthdays, anniversaries, achievements, etc.)</li><li>401(k) retirement plan with company matching- 50% match up to 6% of compensation after 90 days</li><li>We value our employee’s work-life balance and encourage taking advantage of Unlimited PTO</li><li>Supportive time off including paid volunteer days and company holidays</li><li>Employer-contributed healthcare benefits, encompassing medical, dental, and vision coverage, with plans available for dependents and choices for Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA).</li><li>12 weeks primary parent leave, 4 weeks secondary parent leave - full pay (adoption as well)</li><li>We pride ourselves on Community and host exciting company outings and events.</li></ul>

Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack)

<div><strong>As a Principal Engineer in AI Security, you will define and lead Thrivent’s strategy for defending against emerging external AI-powered threats. This role focuses on protecting the enterprise from adversarial AI capabilities, including automated vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and AI-driven attack campaigns. You will operate at the intersection of cyber defense, artificial intelligence, and enterprise architecture, translating rapidly evolving external threats into practical, scalable protections across the organization. This role requires deep technical expertise, strong systems thinking, and the ability to influence security strategy at the highest levels.<br></strong><br></div><h3>DUTIES &amp; RESPONSIBILITIES:</h3><div><br><strong>Designing Solutions</strong></div><ul><li>Apply expert-level knowledge of AI-driven threats, cyber defense, and enterprise security architecture to define and drive outcomes that protect the organization from emerging AI-powered attack vectors.</li><li>Create the enterprise strategy for defending against AI-enabled threats, including automated vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and adversarial AI techniques.</li><li>Establish architecture for detection, prevention, and response capabilities specific to generative AI threat patterns.</li><li>Define and implement security patterns and guardrails to enable safe and secure enterprise consumption of AI technologies.</li><li>Drive integration of AI threat detection and controls into existing cyber defense tooling and platforms.</li><li>Build threat models focused on generative AI attack patterns and emerging adversarial techniques.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Implementing Solutions</strong></div><ul><li>Use independent, critical thinking to translate evolving AI threat intelligence into scalable engineering controls and defensive capabilities.</li><li>Lead the development of detection and response mechanisms for AI-driven attacks across enterprise environments.</li><li>Design and implement telemetry strategies to identify anomalous behavior indicative of AI-enabled threats.</li><li>Partner with Cyber Defense teams to operationalize detections, response playbooks, and automation for AI-related incidents.</li><li>Prototype and evaluate defensive applications of AI to enhance detection, response, and security operations.</li><li>Develop architecturally significant components that advance the organization’s ability to defend against AI-driven adversaries.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Learning and Applying New Techniques</strong></div><ul><li>Lead research initiatives focused on emerging AI threat capabilities, adversarial AI techniques, and evolving attack methodologies.</li><li>Maintain deep expertise in industry frameworks such as OWASP LLM Top 10 and MITRE ATLAS.</li><li>Continuously evaluate and introduce modern security technologies and approaches to address AI-era risks.</li><li>Drive adoption of innovative defensive techniques across the organization to stay ahead of threat evolution.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Collaborating Within the Team</strong></div><ul><li>Provide deep technical expertise in AI security to solve complex, high-impact problems and remove critical technical roadblocks.</li><li>Partner with product owners and engineering teams to incorporate AI security requirements into technical designs and user stories.</li><li>Act as a technical leader in system design across teams, ensuring AI security considerations are embedded into broader architecture decisions.</li><li>Mentor engineers and elevate AI security capabilities within teams.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Collaborating Across Teams</strong></div><ul><li>Partner closely with Cyber Defense, IAM, and Application Security teams to integrate AI threat protections across the security ecosystem.</li><li>Promote adherence to enterprise security standards while extending them to address AI-specific risks.</li><li>Broker design and implementation of AI security controls across product teams to support strategic priorities.</li><li>Drive alignment across teams on detection engineering, telemetry, and response strategies for AI threats.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Collaborating Across the Organization</strong></div><ul><li>Influence senior leadership on AI risk posture, threat landscape evolution, and required investments in defensive capabilities.</li><li>Provide enterprise-wide guidance on AI security architecture, ensuring consistent and scalable protection strategies.</li><li>Represent the organization externally on AI security topics when appropriate (industry forums, partnerships, etc.).</li><li>Translate complex AI security risks into actionable insights for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Setting Product/Platform Technology Strategy</strong></div><ul><li>Define enterprise-level capabilities required to defend against AI-powered threats.</li><li>Shape the strategic direction for AI security across cyber defense, detection engineering, and secure AI adoption.</li><li>Provide subject matter expertise to guide platform and security investments related to AI risk mitigation.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Defining Engineering Standards/Patterns</strong></div><ul><li>Establish and promote engineering standards for AI security, including secure AI usage patterns and detection frameworks.</li><li>Collaborate across teams to ensure consistent application of AI security controls and design patterns.</li><li>Drive adoption of best practices for integrating AI threat protections into engineering workflows and platforms.</li></ul><div><br><strong>DevOps</strong></div><ul><li>Provide technical leadership in identifying and responding to AI-driven security incidents and emerging threats.</li><li>Introduce resilient and scalable technologies to improve detection and response capabilities for evolving attack patterns.</li><li>Evaluate and implement enhancements to CI/CD and operational pipelines to incorporate AI security controls.</li><li>Influence cross-functional teams to proactively address risks associated with AI-enabled development and deployment.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Selecting and Managing Technology Vendors</strong></div><ul><li>Provide technical expertise in evaluating AI security tools, detection platforms, and emerging defensive technologies.</li><li>Assess how vendor solutions align with enterprise strategy for defending against AI-driven threats.</li><li>Contribute to selection criteria for platforms that enhance AI security posture and detection capabilities.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Coaching Engineers</strong></div><ul><li>Mentor engineers in AI security concepts, threat modeling, and detection engineering.</li><li>Provide guidance on best practices for securing AI-enabled systems and defending against adversarial AI techniques.</li><li>Deliver training, workshops, and knowledge-sharing sessions to build AI security expertise across the organization.</li></ul><div><br><strong>Recruiting and Building Talent</strong></div><ul><li>Engage in the broader AI and security community to strengthen organizational expertise and visibility in AI security.</li><li>Support recruitment efforts to hire engineers with specialized skills in AI security and advanced cyber defense.</li><li>Model Thrivent’s leadership competencies: Model the Way, Rally the Team, and Deliver Outcomes.</li><li>Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and strong security practices aligned to evolving AI risks.</li></ul><div><br><strong>QUALIFICATIONS &amp; SKILLS:</strong></div><h3>Required:</h3><ul><li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related technical field, or equivalent work experience</li><li>10+ years of experience in security engineering or related field</li><li>Proven experience defining and executing enterprise security strategy</li><li>Deep knowledge of modern threats, attack techniques, and detection engineering</li><li>Experience with threat modeling, incident response, and security operations</li><li>Demonstrated ability to influence both technical and executive stakeholders</li></ul><h3>Preferred:</h3><ul><li>Experience working with AI/ML systems and security implications</li><li>Knowledge of adversarial AI techniques and AI threat modeling</li><li>Experience with XDR, SIEM, and detection engineering practices</li><li>Familiarity with AI security frameworks (e.g., OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS)</li><li>Financial services industry experience</li></ul><div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div><strong>Pay Transparency</strong></div><div>Thrivent’s long-term growth depends on attracting, rewarding, and retaining people who are committed to helping others thrive with purpose. We accomplish this by offering a wide variety of market competitive compensation programs to attract, reward, and retain top talent.&nbsp; The applicable salary or hourly wage range for this full-time role is $161,436.00 - $218,415.00 per year, which factors in various geographic regions.&nbsp; The base pay actually offered will be determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to, location, relevant experience, skills, and knowledge, business needs, market demand, and other factors Thrivent deems important.</div><div><br></div><div>Thrivent is unique in our commitment to helping people to be wise with money and live balanced and generous lives.&nbsp; That extends to our benefits.</div><div><br></div><div>The following benefits may be offered:&nbsp; various bonuses (including, for example, annual or long-term incentives); medical, dental, and vision insurance; health savings account; flexible spending account; 401k; pension; life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance; disability insurance; supplemental protection insurance; 20 days of Paid Time Off each year; Sick and Safe Time; 10 paid company holidays; Volunteer Time Off; paid parental leave; EAP; well-being benefits, and other employee benefits.&nbsp; Eligibility for receipt of these benefits is subject to the applicable plan/policy documents.&nbsp; Thrivent’s plans/policies are subject to change at any time at Thrivent’s discretion.</div>

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