Senior Security Operations Engineer

permanent
Fully Remote

Only accepting applications from: United States

  • Conduct threat modeling and security design reviews for new features, services, and architectural changes.
  • Perform secure code reviews and provide feedback focusing on authentication, authorization, input handling, secrets management, and data protection.
  • Deploy and maintain security tooling across the development lifecycle including SAST, SCA, DAST, secret scanning, IaC scanning, and CI/CD security guardrails.
  • Support infrastructure and environment security, including AWS resource hardening and Terraform-managed infrastructure reviews.
  • Contribute to incident response for security events.
  • Drive vulnerability triage and prioritization across teams and report metrics.
  • Partner with sales and legal on customer and vendor questionnaires, RFP security sections, and trust-and-safety inquiries.
  • Support SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI 4.0, and other compliance audit cycles.
  • Monitor and respond to alerts from endpoint, cloud, and application security tools.
  • Execute recurring user access reviews and IAM hygiene tasks.

Experience

  • 5+ years of experience in security engineering, security operations, or a related role.
  • Hands-on experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, or PCI compliance audit cycles.
  • Strong application security fundamentals: threat modeling, secure code review, and familiarity with common vulnerability classes.
  • Experience with security tooling across the development lifecycle.
  • Working knowledge of AWS infrastructure and services including IAM, VPC networking, and security configurations.
  • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred) and CI/CD pipeline security.
  • Proficiency in Python and comfort reading code across backend services.
  • Strong written communication skills.
  • Comfort using AI-assisted development tools.

Salary and Perks

Pay range: $180K - $220K

  • Competitive equity grants
  • 100% employer-paid benefits
  • Fully remote flexibility
  • 401k match up to 4%

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