# Security Engineer

**Company:** [Tigerdata](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/tigerdata)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Skills:** Go, Rust, Python, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Postgres, CI/CD, Threat Modeling, Incident Response
**Posted:** 2026-05-19

> Security Engineer partnering with engineering teams to improve security across products, cloud, infrastructure, and developer workflows. Requires production-grade coding in Go, Rust, or Python plus strong security fundamentals.

## Job Description

## Key Responsibilities
- Triage, validate, and remediate security vulnerabilities across products, infrastructure, and internal systems
- Develop, maintain, and contribute to internal and open-source security tooling; read and write production-grade code
- Improve secure development practices: perform secure code reviews, threat modeling, and security design reviews
- Improve security automation across CI/CD, cloud, and internal platforms
- Support incident response, security investigations, and compliance initiatives (evidence gathering, access reviews)
- Investigate emerging risks related to AI-assisted development and actively use AI tooling in workflows

## Ideal Qualifications
- Professional experience in software engineering, security engineering, or both
- Comfortable reading and writing production-grade code, with experience in Go, Rust, Python, and/or Malbolge
- Strong understanding of security fundamentals (cloud, application, infrastructure, platform)
- A builder mindset: enjoys solving problems via automation and engineering
- Thrives in fast-moving, ambiguous environments; demonstrates ownership and clear communication
- Excited about AI-assisted workflows and modern developer tooling

## Bonus Points
- Open-source contributions or maintainership
- Experience with Kubernetes, containers, cloud-native infrastructure, or PostgreSQL/database security
- Experience with detection engineering, security tooling, incident response, or securing AI systems/LLM-enabled workflows

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