Senior Security Engineer

Role overview

Improve security across cloud infrastructure, applications, and SaaS environments by identifying risks, strengthening controls, and making security checks easier to repeat. The role combines hands-on assessment and tooling work with guidance for development teams, security governance, and incident response.

Responsibilities - Assess cloud and mobile workloads for vulnerabilities, validate findings with application teams, and help plan mitigations. - Review security architectures and control implementations, and advise teams on risks and practical safeguards. - Build and tune automated security checks, monitoring, and alerting, particularly with AWS security services. - Integrate and maintain security tools, and create self-service checks for application security and compliance. - Help teams develop threat models, interpret security requirements, and improve cloud, container, and Kubernetes security. - Contribute to security assessment reports, developer training, incident response, and coordination of junior team members.

Requirements - A bachelor’s degree or 2–4 years of relevant IT or security experience, plus at least 3 years working with AWS or another public cloud. - Experience with infrastructure as code, configuration management, and CI/CD; familiarity with YAML, Terraform, or CDK is relevant. - Scripting ability and experience with a modern programming language such as Python or Node.js. - Experience partnering with software teams across the development lifecycle and using cloud security tools for scanning, monitoring, or alerting. - A security certification such as Security+; AWS Security Specialty or Professional level and/or an AI platform certification is also cited. - Familiarity with security frameworks, consultative customer work, or on-call incident response is requested in the source.

Nice to have

Experience with Datadog, security training, frameworks such as NIST 800-53 or FedRAMP, and explaining how AI has improved a workload or process.

Benefits and work setup

Fully remote work, flexible paid time off and holidays, support for exams and certifications, professional development funding, equipment and office stipends, peer awards, and phantom equity are listed. Applicants must already be authorized to work in the position’s country; visa or work permit sponsorship is unavailable.