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Bastion

Security Engineer

Bastion

. Join Bastion's security team as its second engineer, reporting to the CTO/CISO and working alongside the Staff Security Engineer .

Posted 9/28/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • United StatesSeniorLead💰 $180,000 - $250,000 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in security engineering, including hands-on experience with Go programming, AWS, Kubernetes, and SIEM. Capable of contributing to security initiatives, compliance automation, and incident response while effectively collaborating within a remote team environment.

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Go ProgrammingAWSKubernetesSecurity EngineeringSIEM

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Hard Skills
Production Code WritingKubernetes/EKSTerraformSecurity Tooling DevelopmentDetection EngineeringApplication SecurityControl AutomationIncident ResponseDLP Program ContributionCompliance Automation
Soft Skills
CollaborationProblem-SolvingAdaptability
Tools & Technologies
SIEMAWSKubernetesTerraform
Industry Keywords
Security EngineeringTechnical GRCSOC 1SOC 2OCCBug Bounty ProgramCloud HardeningSecure Development Practices

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSCloudKubernetesTerraformGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Join Bastion's security team as its second engineer, reporting to the CTO/CISO and working alongside the Staff Security Engineer
  • Scale the security program across security engineering, infrastructure, product and application security, detection and response, and technical GRC
  • Write production Go code, review design documents, and build reusable security tooling and middleware
  • Learn and contribute to Bastion's Go codebase, AWS and Kubernetes environment, SIEM, and security services
  • Ship security fixes, guardrails, and detections to production
  • Learn incident response and on-call procedures and join the security rotation
  • Contribute to the DLP program rollout
  • Own a security domain such as Kubernetes and cloud hardening, application security in CI, or detection engineering
  • Write and tune detections as code, add telemetry sources, and reduce alert noise
  • Build reusable Go security libraries or middleware for authorization, tenant isolation, request signing, or input validation
  • Review design documents for new product features and architecture changes
  • Deliver control automation and audit evidence for SOC 1, SOC 2, and OCC workstreams
  • Help launch and triage the bug bounty program and expand DLP coverage and policies
  • Drive multi-quarter initiatives involving service-to-service networking, security policy evaluation, and granular access
  • Expand Kubernetes cluster and container security, including image scanning and signing, admission policies, pod security standards, and runtime protection
  • Expand compliance automation, conduct resilience testing, influence the security roadmap, and improve secure development and deployment practices

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Must be able to write production code
  • Hands-on experience with Go codebases, AWS, Kubernetes, SIEM, and security services
  • Experience with Kubernetes/EKS, AWS, and Terraform
  • Experience in security engineering, infrastructure, product and application security, detection and response, and technical GRC
  • Ability to contribute from the first week and become fully productive by the third month
  • Ability to participate in security on-call rotation
  • Ability to work remotely within the US, with NYC presence or willingness to relocate preferred
  • Legally authorized to work in the US
  • Must pass a criminal background check
  • Must be 18+ years of age

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Equity offering
  • Flexible work schedules
  • Unlimited paid vacation & holidays
  • Comprehensive health coverage
  • Life insurance
  • Retirement benefits
  • Paid parental leave
  • Tax-advantaged accounts
  • One Medical
  • Spring Health