Security Engineer

Skills

About the Role

Join a new security team during a critical build-out phase, working across application and infrastructure security. The role is a generalist position involving code reviews, cloud hardening, incident response, secure design, security findings, remediation, and documentation while collaborating closely with engineering teams.

Requirements

• Understanding of common vulnerability classes, secure coding patterns, and meaningful code review.
• Experience with GCP or a similar cloud provider, including IAM, networking, and container concepts.
• Ability to read and review Go, Python, or PHP code.
• Familiarity with SAST, DAST, or dependency scanning tools.
• Strong written communication and clear async documentation skills.
• Ability to partner effectively with engineering teams.
• Eagerness to learn and comfort with ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Perform application security reviews through code reviews, SAST/DAST, and dependency scanning.
• Participate in threat modeling for new features and architecture changes.
• Harden cloud and container infrastructure using GCP, Kubernetes, and IAM configurations.
• Triage penetration test findings and coordinate remediation with engineering teams.
• Review architectures and advise on secure implementation patterns.
• Identify, assess, document, and track security findings through remediation.
• Investigate and document security events and contribute to root-cause analysis.
• Write async security advisories, best-practice documentation, and practical guidance.
• Support product security reviews for customer-facing services.