The threat surface is financial: millions of users, hundreds of regional banks and credit unions, all running on a single cloud-native codebase. Alkami Technology, founded in 2009 and now publicly traded, builds the digital platform that lets these institutions compete with megabanks - handling core banking, onboarding, data analytics, marketing automation, and fraud prevention in one unified system. The scale is real: over 19.5 million end users depend on this platform for daily financial operations.
That single-codebase architecture means security isn't a bolt-on; it's existential. Fraud prevention is baked into the product alongside the banking logic, analytics pipelines, and automation layers. The attack vectors span account takeover, transaction manipulation, and data exfiltration across a platform that touches sensitive financial data at volume. Alkami's platform earned J.D. Power certification for mobile banking experience in both 2024 and 2025 - a consumer-facing trust signal that depends entirely on backend integrity.
Security work here means operating at the intersection of cloud-native infrastructure, financial compliance, and real-time fraud detection. The team defends a platform serving credit unions and community banks - the exact institutions most targeted by threat actors who assume smaller targets mean weaker defenses. The technical domains run deep: cloud security architecture, application security across a complex monorepo, data protection across analytics and marketing systems, and the fraud prevention engine itself.
