Senior Security Engineer

Role overview Lead the security architecture and defensive practices that protect cloud infrastructure, applications, data, and AI-enabled services. The role spans security planning and hands-on engineering, with a focus on AWS, Kubernetes, automation, threat detection, and incident readiness. You will work across engineering and business teams to make security a routine part of design and delivery while keeping systems resilient and developers productive.

Responsibilities - Design and implement security controls across cloud infrastructure, platform services, and AI integrations. - Lead threat modeling, vulnerability management, security assessments, and incident response for cloud and application environments. - Maintain a security roadmap in partnership with engineering and organizational leaders. - Integrate automated testing, secret detection, and compliance checks into CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code workflows. - Manage identity and access, secrets, encryption, and zero-trust practices; improve monitoring, alerting, and response playbooks. - Assess and deploy defensive tools, including AI-assisted monitoring, and coach teams on secure design and coding.

Requirements - Deep experience in cloud and application security, including threat modeling, vulnerability assessment, IAM, secrets, encryption, and compliance. - Strong knowledge of AWS security and services such as IAM, KMS, EKS, RDS, and S3. - Experience securing Kubernetes, including cluster hardening, runtime security, container scanning, and network policies. - Ability to automate security workflows using CI/CD tools and scripting or programming in Python, Go, or Bash. - Hands-on familiarity with security logging, SIEM or SOC tooling, and incident response. - Demonstrated initiative in setting security direction and communicating risk across technical and nontechnical teams.

Nice to have - Experience with AI security, AI-enabled threat monitoring, or security controls for AI applications. - Familiarity with tools such as GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana, or Loki.

Benefits and work setup - The posting describes the role as remote-optional, with pay ranges that vary by U.S. location. Benefits include a 401(k) match, medical, dental and vision coverage, paid leave, vacation and holidays, learning support, and a monthly work-from-home stipend.