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Senior Security Engineer in USA

  • San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

  • Lead incident detection and response from initial alert through investigation, postmortem, and lasting engineering improvements.
  • Develop the security roadmap across product, cloud infrastructure, corporate security, incident response, and compliance.
  • Secure APIs, platforms, and data systems through threat modeling, design and code reviews, identity controls, and secrets management.
  • Build and operate monitoring, SIEM or XDR detection, and incident response capabilities while investigating emerging threats.
  • Own SOC 2 and customer trust work, including control design, security questionnaires, policy management, vendor reviews, and audits.
  • Partner with legal, commercial, engineering, and operations teams on data access, provenance, permitted use, retention, deletion, isolation, and auditability controls.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of hands-on security engineering experience in infrastructure security, detection, incident response, identity, or related areas.
  • Experience leading incidents from detection and containment through root-cause analysis and follow-up work.
  • Experience implementing or operating SOC 2 or a comparable security framework and translating requirements into technical and operational controls.
  • Experience securing AI or machine learning infrastructure, agent execution environments, data platforms, or systems handling untrusted or sensitive data.
  • Experience with SIEM or XDR tooling, attack surface monitoring, threat modeling, authentication and authorization, and data protection controls.
  • Offensive security experience such as penetration testing, red teaming, bug bounty work, or vulnerability research, alongside recent hands-on engineering work.
  • Strong communication and judgment when working with engineers, legal teams, auditors, customers, and operations.

Benefits

  • Annual salary range of $130,000 to $225,000 USD.
  • Visa sponsorship is available, with relocation support for qualified candidates.
  • On-site role in San Francisco, California, United States.

Salary: $130k - $225k/yr

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