Senior GRC Engineer

Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek.

Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career.

Engineering at Brex

Engineering at Brex is about building systems that scale with speed and intention. Our teams operate with high autonomy and deep collaboration, own outcomes end to end, and push for excellence from architecture to deployment. It’s an environment where engineering is a craft and builders grow by solving meaningful technical problems.

What you’ll do

As a Senior GRC Engineer at Brex, you’ll lead the IT security compliance workstreams that connect our technical control owners to the people who examine our controls: external auditors, Internal Audit, state regulators, and Finance. You’ll coordinate and test the technical controls behind our financial reporting (SOX/ITGC), our annual SOC 1 Type 2 report, our state money transmitter examinations, and our FINRA IT requirements. You’ll also run the annual business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) testing calendar.

As part of the GRC team you may also contribute to the following operational tasks:

Where you’ll work

This role will be based in our Seattle office. We are a hybrid environment that combines the energy and connections of being in the office with the benefits and flexibility of working from home. We currently require a minimum of three coordinated days in the office per week, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. As a perk, we also have up to four weeks per year of fully remote work!

• Third party risk management
• Risk register maintenance and reporting
• Customer Trust / GTM due diligence support
• Tooling access requests
• Assist with requests related to other certifications like SOC 2 Type 2, PCI DSS, or ISO 27001

• Lead IT SOX/ITGC test procedures, walkthroughs, evidence, workpapers, and remediation across logical access, change management, computer operations, and IT governance.
• Manage our annual SOC 1 Type 2 engagement, including external auditor coordination, control descriptions, evidence, deficiency tracking, and review of draft report sections.
• Support state money transmitter (MTL) examinations by working with Legal, Compliance, and Finance on IT documentation, examiner requests, and tracking of IT findings.
• Test quarterly user access reviews, privileged-access evidence, and segregation-of-duties remediation, and verify that in-scope changes are complete and properly authorized.

Bonus points

• 5+ years of experience in IT audit, SOX/ITGC testing, GRC, or technology compliance, in fintech, financial services, or public accounting.
• Hands-on experience with ITGC testing across logical access, change management, and computer operations, and with documenting results in audit workpapers.
• Working knowledge of SOC 1 / SSAE 18, including Type 2 reports, control descriptions, and deficiency management.
• Familiarity with PCAOB standards.
• Experience working with external auditors, regulators, or examiners and responding to their requests on deadline.

The expected salary range for this role is $153,600 - $192,000. However, the starting base pay will depend on a number of factors including the candidate’s location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal pay parity. Depending on the position offered, equity and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.

Brex LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Capital One, N.A. Please be aware, job-seekers may be at risk of targeting by malicious actors looking for personal data. Brex recruiters will only reach out via LinkedIn or email with a brex.com domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Brex via other sources should be ignored.