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Staff Security Engineer - Enterprise Security

Leads the design, automation, and operation of enterprise endpoint security across multi-cloud and SaaS environments. The role requires 5+ years of information security experience, software development skills, and expertise across Windows, macOS, and Linux endpoint platforms.

About the job

Responsibilities

  • Develop, maintain, and scale endpoint security solutions, including EDR, DLP, secure browser, MDM, and AI security solutions across a complex multi-cloud, multi-SaaS enterprise environment.
  • Own the technical roadmap for endpoint security tooling.
  • Build intelligent security platforms and automate security operations using AI and software engineering.
  • Identify opportunities to reduce toil, increase detection fidelity, and accelerate response through scalable automation.
  • Monitor security events, investigate incidents, and build real-time detection and prevention systems.
  • Develop threat intelligence pipelines to anticipate adversary activity.
  • Conduct risk and threat analyses to identify and remediate vulnerabilities end-to-end.
  • Apply zero-trust principles to reduce the attack surface across the endpoint fleet.
  • Develop and implement unified security policies, procedures, and standards for endpoint protection.
  • Partner across Security, Engineering, IT, and Product to define endpoint security strategy and drive secure engineering practices.
  • Provide technical guidance to staff and end-users, and promote security awareness through enablement and education.
  • Establish standards for threat modeling, secure design, detection quality, and incident response.
  • Mentor engineers and introduce new techniques and adversarial perspectives.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on information security experience, including security engineering, threat intelligence or detection, or incident response, with a strong focus on endpoint security.
  • Proficiency in software development using Python, Go, Java, C, C++, or JavaScript, along with experience using AI-assisted development.
  • Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining endpoint security tools such as EDR, DLP, MDM, secure browsers, and AI security solutions across Windows, macOS, and Linux.
  • Strong understanding of operating systems, network protocols, application platforms, endpoint security concepts, and best practices.
  • Experience leading technical projects independently, making data-informed decisions, and executing end-to-end.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice-to-haves

  • Master's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • Experience with AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and enterprise SaaS platforms at scale.
  • CISSP, CEH, Security+, or other relevant industry certifications.
  • Ability to communicate complex security concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, including executive stakeholders.

Compensation and Benefits

  • Salary range: $211,000–$303,600 annually.

Skills

Endpoint Security, Edr, Dlp, MDM, Python, Go, Java, C++, JavaScript, Artificial Intelligence, Threat Intelligence, Incident Response, Zero Trust, AWS, GCP

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