Senior Security Engineer, Cloud & Detection in Mundelein

If you are a security engineer who wants to build, not just monitor, this role was built for you.

• 5+ years of hands-on security engineering experience \n

• Most recent experience reporting into a dedicated security organization, not IT or DevOps \n

• Production cloud security experience on AWS

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• Design and build security guardrails across AWS and self-managed Kubernetes using Terraform and Python \n

• Write, tune and own high-signal SIEM detections for cloud and infrastructure telemetry \n

• Lead cloud forensics and incident response from first signal through root cause and remediation \n

• Drive threat modeling with engineering teams on new systems and features \n

• Strengthen CI/CD and software supply chain security \n

• Help define how the company secures AI agents, LLM features and agentic workflows \n

• Participate in the security on-call rotation \n

• Partner with engineering leadership on long-term security architecture \n

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• Hands-on Kubernetes security experience, ideally on self-managed clusters \n

• Has personally written detections, built security controls, and automated security work in code \n

• Has led real incident response and forensics investigations end to end \n

• Experience at a technology-driven company with a strong security engineering culture \n

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Senior-Level Expectations

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• You have been the person engineers come to when they need a security decision made \n

• You have built security programs or controls from the ground up, not just maintained them \n

• You are comfortable owning ambiguous, high-impact problems with limited direction \n

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Nice To Have

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• Experience securing AI agents, LLM-driven systems or agentic workflows \n

• GCP experience alongside AWS \n

• Supply chain security experience (artifact signing, SBOMs, secrets management) \n

• A background in SRE or platform engineering before moving fully into security \n

• Certifications such as GIAC, OSCP, CISSP or AWS Security Specialty \n

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This Role Is Not A Fit If

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• Your experience is primarily in DevOps or platform engineering with security as a side responsibility \n

• Your security work has been mostly monitoring alerts rather than building controls and detections \n

• You have not personally led incident response on real production systems \n

• Your background is primarily compliance, audit or GRC \n

• You prefer managing security tools over writing code \n

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Compensation and Benefits

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• Salary range: $150,000 to $235,000 USD depending on experience, with flexibility for the right person \n

• Annual bonus \n

• Competitive equity package (RSUs) and ESPP \n

• 401(k) program \n

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage \n

• Flexible PTO and paid holidays \n

• Paid parental leave \n

• Mostly remote, with the NYC office about once a month \n

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Why This Role Matters

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The systems this team protects are trusted by thousands of global brands and their customers.

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The guardrails, detections and response capabilities you build will directly shape how securely the company scales worldwide.

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