Senior Security Engineer - US

Role overview Embed security into product and platform engineering, helping teams identify risks early and ship changes with appropriate safeguards. This is a hands-on role combining cloud security engineering, software development, incident support, and automation that makes security and compliance work repeatable.

Responsibilities - Partner with engineers on architecture reviews, threat modeling, and secure-by-default designs. - Review and strengthen cloud infrastructure, including Kubernetes workloads, storage, databases, search services, and identity controls. - Improve least-privilege access and strengthen identity patterns across the platform. - Build automation for detection, response, compliance evidence, account lifecycle tasks, alert triage, and access anomaly detection. - Create self-service security tools and guidance that help engineers assess their systems quickly. - Support disaster recovery exercises, incident investigations, and root-cause follow-up.

Requirements - At least five years of security engineering experience, with strong AWS and infrastructure-as-code skills; Terraform or Terragrunt experience is preferred. - Practical Kubernetes security knowledge, including RBAC, network policies, pod security, image scanning, and cluster hardening. - A track record of building security tools or automation that addresses problems at scale. - Ability to work directly with software engineers in code reviews, design discussions, and incident response. - Experience supporting a SOC 2 or similar program through technical controls or evidence, and documenting work clearly. - Self-direction to take a security problem from investigation through implementation; Go experience and familiarity with security monitoring tools are also listed.

Nice to have Exposure to offensive security or red/purple teaming, and familiarity with managed relational databases or search services.

Benefits and work setup The position is remote-friendly. Benefits vary by country and may include flexible time off, healthcare, retirement contributions, parental leave, and support for home office phone or internet costs.