Education: Bachelor's degree or related field
Experience: 2+ years
- Design, implement, and scale security controls across infrastructure, applications, identity, and cloud environments
- Conduct in-depth security assessments, threat modeling, and code reviews to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities
- Build automation, tooling, and systems that improve security compliance, observability, and governance
- Utilize AI tools and high velocity engineering workflows to design and ship scalable services while upholding rigorous standards for code correctness, security, and production ready quality code.
- Partner with product, engineering, and operations teams to harden systems and reduce risk from design through deployment
- Investigate and respond to security incidents, conduct root cause analysis, and recommend remediation strategies
- Help define and evolve security standards, practices, and documentation to elevate the organization's overall security maturity
- Strong technical background in security engineering principles, secure system design, and threat mitigation techniques
- Proficiency in, or a strong aptitude for, leveraging AI tools to streamline development, paired with the critical judgment to audit generated output for architectural integrity, performance bottlenecks, and security risks.
- Adaptability in learning and applying evolving AI systems and tools to remain at the forefront of engineering trends and modern development practices.
- Experience with security tooling including vulnerability scanners, SIEM, EDR, cloud security frameworks, and automation platforms
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java)
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, verbal and written communication skills
- Security advocacy skills: help others raise security awareness
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical work experience
- 2+ years of post-Bachelor's security related experience; or Master's degree in a technical field + 1+ year of post-grad security related experience; or PhD in a relevant technical field
- Expertise in one of the following domains: infrastructure security, enterprise security, access management, application security, detection and response, or spam and abuse
- Demonstrated experience securing complex distributed systems and/or enterprise-scale infrastructure
- Strong programming and software design skills, including debugging, performance analysis, and test design
- Strong intellectual curiosity, self-motivated to keep up with the latest technology in the security domain
Zone A (CA, WA, NYC) : The base salary range for this position is $157,000-$235,000 annually.
Zone B : The base salary range for this position is $149,000-$223,000 annually.
Zone C : The base salary range for this position is $133,000-$200,000 annually.
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