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Senior Security Engineer

Compass · Ventura, United States

External listingfull-time16 days ago

About The Role

Join our team as a Senior Security Engineer, where you'll blend strategic partnership, hands-on engineering, infrastructure security, and automation. You'll empower engineers with safe-by-default tooling, design and implement scalable systems to secure our cloud infrastructure, and collaborate closely with engineering and security teams. You'll also assist in investigating and responding to security events, conduct security assessments for third-party integrations, and build enduring partnerships across the Engineering organization.

  • Collaborate closely with engineering and security teams to drive the deployment of critical security enhancements and control changes across our cloud infrastructure.
  • Design and implement scalable systems and controls to secure our cloud infrastructure effectively, ensuring engineering velocity by automating security requirements.
  • Conduct security assessments for third-party integrations and emerging AI tools, ensuring that business productivity does not compromise data integrity or compliance.
  • Strong understanding of cloud platforms and security features, particularly AWS (IAM, EC2, VPC, container services like ECR, ECS, and EKS), with foundational knowledge of Azure and/or GCP
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to critically and objectively assess complex security risks
  • Excited to collaborate with cross-functional teams to build secure, reliable, and scalable systems
  • Proven experience with a CNAPP or similar cloud security tool (e.g., Wiz, Orca Security, Lacework, Upwind)
  • You are comfortable guiding and educating development teams to achieve stronger security outcomes
  • You can clearly communicate complex security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques to diverse audiences
  • Knowledge of core security principles such as the principle of least privilege, defense-in-depth, and security monitoring
  • Experience: At least 5+ years of experience in a security-related role, with at least 2+ years specifically focused on cloud security
  • Experience with threat modeling and architectural review processes; you have a track record of identifying potential attack vectors early in the development lifecycle
  • Automation is your default approach to security. You understand the unique challenges of securing systems at scale and consistently leverage automation to solve them
  • Strong understanding of Azure services and how to secure them
  • You possess a proactive mindset, adept at identifying and resolving security gaps or inefficiencies through innovative automation and tooling
  • Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes)
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go) for automation
  • Expertise in securing cloud platforms, particularly AWS and Azure
  • Experience with GCP, OCI and multi-cloud networks and infrastructure, especially when designing cloud-agnostic systems

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