Senior Security Engineer
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Job description
- You'll enable our sales team to confidently answer security questionnaires as we pursue enterprise clients
- You'll work in the SRE team, with close collaboration with SWE teams and exposure to most if not all department leaders
- You'll reduce business risk in a fast-scaling environment where security incidents can damage trust and revenue
What you'll do
️ Hands-on Security Engineering (60% of your time)
Immediate priorities (first 3-6 months):
- Harden our AWS infrastructure and application security
- Audit and improve IAM configurations and policies
- Enhance WAF rules to block sophisticated attacks
- Implement automated security scanning in CI/CD pipelines (SAST/DAST)
- Work with the SRE team to secure our Kubernetes clusters and container images
- Drive and maintain state-of-the-art security posture across backend, frontend, and user data management in collaboration with SWE teams, ensuring best-in-class protection for our systems and users.
- Strengthen authentication infrastructure and identity management
- Deploy and configure email security solutions within existing Google Workspace
- Deploy and enforce strong authentication methods across the organization's applications and services (SSO, MFA)
- Create automated alerting for suspicious behaviors patterns using Grafana/ELK
- Establish vulnerability management
- Set up automated vulnerability scanning for infrastructure and applications (leveraging open-source tools as much as possible)
- Create a prioritised remediation workflow integrated with the engineering team's sprint cycles
- Implement dependency scanning for our Python/Django backend and React frontend
- Expand secrets detection coverage
- Incident response and monitoring
- Design and implement security alerting using our existing Grafana/ELK stack
- Create runbooks for common security incidents (data leaks, phishing, unauthorized access)
- Respond to security incidents and conduct post-incident reviews
- Handle customer security inquiries and support sales with security questionnaires
Security Culture & Training (40% of your time)
Build security awareness across 200 employees:
- Design and deliver security training programs
- Create engaging, practical security training for all employees
- Develop role-specific training (engineering, sales, customer success, operations)
- Run simulated phishing campaigns and use results to improve training
- Conduct quarterly security awareness sessions
- Hardware and endpoint security management
- Define and enforce security standards for employee devices (Mac, Linux, Windows)
- Work with IT/HRs to ensure secure device provisioning using Primo
- Implement endpoint protection and mobile device management policies
- Create security baseline configurations for different roles
- Manage device lifecycle security (onboarding, off-boarding, lost/stolen devices)
- Security champion network
- Identify and train security champions in each department
- Create self-service security documentation and guidelines
- Foster a culture where security is everyone's responsibility, not a blocker
- Policy and governance
- Develop pragmatic security policies that balance security with business needs
- Create incident response procedures that the entire company understands
- Establish a security review process for vendor and third-party tools
- Maintain security documentation and update it as we scale
Requirements
Do you have experience in Terraform?, * 5+ years in security engineering, infrastructure security, or security software engineering roles
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS or GCP security (IAM, security groups, WAF, etc.)
- Deep understanding of application security (OWASP Top 10, secure coding, API security)
- Experience building security programs from scratch in fast-growing startups or scale-ups
- Proven track record in incident response and handling data breach scenarios
- Good programming skills (at least one of Python, Typescript, Golang)
- Experience with infrastructure security (Kubernetes, container security, IaC security)
- Prior experience training employees on Security
Strong bonus points
- Experience with GDPR compliance and data protection regulations
- Background in penetration testing or offensive security
- Familiarity with our tech stack (Django, React, PostgreSQL, Terraform)
- Experience responding to security questionnaires for enterprise sales
- SOC2 or ISO27001 implementation experience
Technical environment
- AWS
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Helm
- Container orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker
- Monitoring: Grafana, ELK stack
- Backend: Python Django, FastAPI, Celery
- Frontend: React, TypeScript (mono-repos, module federation)
- Databases: PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kafka
- CI/CD: GitLab CI, ArgoCD
Benefits & conditions
We believe great work comes from happy, supported people-that's why we offer meaningful perks designed to promote balance, growth, and connection.
Attractive compensation package Competitive salary packages based on your experience and role.
Work-Life harmony Hybrid model with remote days to support balance and flexibility.
Work from anywhere Enjoy up to 15 days of remote work from abroad each year.
️ Private health insurance We offer fully-funded Alan private health coverage so you can focus on what matters most.