# Senior Security Engineer

**Company:** [ConductorOne](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/conductorone)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $100k – $200k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** AWS, Go, Python, Rust, Kubernetes, Service Mesh, Pki, Consul, Envoy, Cilium, Vault, Istio, Threat Modeling, Api Security, SOC 2
**Posted:** 2026-09-09

> Senior Security Engineer responsible for application, cloud, and platform security, with a focus on automating security workflows, threat modeling, secure development, and remediation. Requires hands-on SaaS security, cloud infrastructure, code review, and agent or automation experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Define and drive security standards and secure-by-default solutions for application and cloud security.
- Build agents, skills, tooling, and automation that integrate security into the development lifecycle and reduce manual triage, enrichment, review, and detection work.
- Incorporate risk-based security review into design specifications and architecture decisions.
- Build security observability and detection capabilities that scale across engineering.
- Lead threat modeling and risk assessments for high-risk features and platform changes.
- Assess and mitigate risks from agentic development practices and AI-powered production features.
- Partner with engineering teams to prioritize and remediate critical threats, define API security standards, and conduct security code reviews.
- Evaluate and adopt open-source tools for service security testing.
- Identify systemic security risks and lead cross-team remediation efforts.
- Collaborate across security, compliance, and engineering on complex security problems.
- Contribute to SOC 2 and ISO 27001/42001 initiatives.
- Mentor teammates and help raise security standards across engineering.

## Requirements
- Proven experience securing enterprise SaaS applications, including authentication, authorization, and API input validation.
- Experience securing software and infrastructure deployment and change-management mechanisms.
- Background in software, platform, systems, network, cloud security, or application security engineering.
- Hands-on code review experience, ideally with Go, Python, or Rust.
- Experience with AWS or another major cloud provider and cloud infrastructure.
- Experience building agents or automation that replaces manual security work.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
- Current knowledge of modern security practices, tools, emerging threats, and AI-related security risks.
- Quarterly in-person participation at the San Francisco or Portland, Oregon office.

## Nice to Have
- Kubernetes, service mesh, or PKI/network technology experience.
- Experience with Consul, Envoy, Cilium, Vault, or Istio.
- Experience building or extending internal security tooling, automation, or agents.
- Experience at a high-growth SaaS or identity and access management company.

## Compensation and Benefits
- $100,000–$200,000 annual salary.
- Meaningful equity and comprehensive health benefits.

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