Security Engineer
Security Engineer responsible for building detection and prevention controls, automating security operations, conducting threat hunts, and supporting incident response across a remote-first organization. Requires 3+ years of security or software development experience, cloud-native security expertise, and automation skills.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Join the Cyber Resiliency team and collaborate across the company to improve information security.
- Design, deploy, and optimize technical controls to detect and prevent security incidents.
- Engineer custom detection logic, integrate threat intelligence, automate with SOAR, and design AI security operations playbooks.
- Contribute to or lead incident response efforts, including tabletop exercises.
- Integrate security best practices into products and processes.
- Conduct thesis-driven threat hunts across forensic data lakes.
- Research the threat landscape and pursue ongoing professional training.
- Participate in a reasonable, shared rotational on-call schedule.
Requirements
- Investigative mindset and strong problem-solving abilities.
- 3+ years of information security or software development experience.
- Experience securing cloud-native environments.
- Experience with endpoint detection and response.
- Familiarity with macOS or Linux.
- Knowledge and experience in digital forensics and incident response.
- Ability to develop automation using Go, Python, or shell scripts.
- Ability to work independently across multiple simultaneous workstreams.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Security, or Information Systems.
Nice-to-haves
- Offensive security experience.
- Threat intelligence background.
- Passion for AI.
Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary: $105,000–$123,000 USD.
- Remote-first culture with team meetups, biannual destination summits, and coworking, phone, and internet stipends.
- Stock options upon hire and promotion, with participation in secondary offerings and a 10-year exercise window.
- 100% covered health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for employees and dependents.
- Flexible time off.
- Paid parental leave: 18 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
Skills
Cloud Security, Cloud-Native Environments, Endpoint Detection And Response, macOS, Linux, Digital Forensics, Incident Response, Go, Python, Shell Scripting, Soar, Threat Intelligence, Threat Hunting, Offensive Security, Artificial Intelligence
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