Security Engineer jobs in United States
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Security Engineer II
DreamHost
Posted: 10/19/2026Senior IT Security Engineer
NPR
Posted: 10/19/2026Director – Cybersecurity GRC
DLS Discovery, LLC
Posted: 10/19/2026Senior Information Security Engineer, FedRAMP
Consensus Cloud Solutions
Posted: 10/19/2026Senior Internal Security Investigator
GEICO
Posted: 10/19/2026Senior Product Security Architect
Datavant
Posted: 10/19/2026Student Security Coordinator
The College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin
Posted: 10/19/2026Security Engineer 4 – Remote Access
Capital One
Posted: 10/19/2026Principal Security Architect
S&P Global
Posted: 10/19/2026Security Manager
DSV - Global Transport and Logistics
Posted: 10/19/2026Online Visiting Professor – Cybersecurity
DeVry University
Posted: 10/18/2026Strategic Solution Sales Executive – Cybersecurity
OpenText
Posted: 10/17/2026Security, LP Agent
Sun Hill Industries
Posted: 10/17/2026Security Cooperation Financial Management Specialist – Lead
Koniag Government Services
Posted: 10/17/2026Azure Cloud Security Architect
High Bridge Consulting LLC
Posted: 10/17/2026Endpoint and System Security Specialist
High Bridge Consulting LLC
Posted: 10/17/2026Security Engineer, IT
Sofar Ocean
Posted: 10/17/2026Cybersecurity Engineer II – Information Security
McLeod Health
Posted: 10/17/2026Manager, Application Security – SOX IT, Oracle Fusion
Paramount
Posted: 10/16/2026Security Architecture Lead
Northrop Grumman
Posted: 10/16/2026Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in security engineering and incident response, with a strong focus on application security and detection engineering. Proficient in managing vulnerabilities, automating security tasks, and implementing safeguards across diverse environments.
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAbout the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Investigate live compromises across shared, virtualized, and dedicated Linux hosts
- Scope blast radius, contain incidents, preserve evidence, and produce write-ups
- Build malware and webshell signatures and log-based detections
- Reduce false positives and alert fatigue at fleet scale
- Review the security of in-house control plane, customer panel, internal tooling, and third-party/open-source dependencies
- Modernize secrets management by moving static credentials into Vault, adopting dynamic credentials, and eliminating plaintext secrets from code, logs, and CI
- Manage identity and access lifecycle, including directory and SSO migration, privileged access review, and durable offboarding
- Manage vulnerabilities and patch velocity across a heterogeneous fleet, including end-of-life OS and runtime remediation
- Build automation and tooling for repetitive security and operational tasks
- Review and govern internal AI and agent tooling for data exposure, permission scope, agent identity, and abuse paths
- Lead complex security incident investigations and coordinate across teams
- Design and implement safeguards for customer sites, accounts, and infrastructure
- Conduct vulnerability assessments, security reviews, and risk analysis with actionable remediation guidance
- Partner with Systems, Development, Abuse, and Support to implement security controls
- Mentor less experienced team members and contribute to shared knowledge and runbooks
- Contribute to security policies, standards, processes, and compliance efforts
Requirements
What you’ll need- 3–6 years in security engineering, incident response, application security, offensive security, or systems administration
- Demonstrated ability to resolve complex security problems independently
- Depth in at least one of application security, incident response and detection engineering, or offensive security and penetration testing, plus working competence in the other two
- Strong hands-on Linux, preferably Debian/Ubuntu, including processes, namespaces, capabilities, filesystems, kernels, and failure modes
- Experience operating long-lived production systems, including repairing hosts in place under load
- Experience in multi-tenant or customer-facing environments where users are untrusted
- Production scripting and automation experience using Python, Go, Bash, Perl, or similar
- Log analysis and investigation at scale
- Experience with intrusion detection and web application firewalls such as mod_security
- Working knowledge of AWS, GCP, Azure, or OpenStack security, including IAM, network controls, and workload isolation
- Familiarity with secrets management and CI/CD security, including Vault or equivalent, pipeline hardening, dependency and supply-chain risk
- Fluency with Git and infrastructure as code such as Ansible
- Practical, current fluency with AI tooling used in daily engineering work
- Clear written and verbal communication, including translating technical risk for non-technical stakeholders
- Strong ethics, healthy skepticism, and ability to remain useful under pressure
- Ability to work in the United States without visa sponsorship
- Nice to have: Web hosting or WordPress-at-scale experience
- Nice to have: Container and orchestration security with Podman, Docker, or Kubernetes
- Nice to have: Malware analysis, YARA rule authorship, or reverse engineering
- Nice to have: Detection-as-code or SIEM engineering experience
- Nice to have: Hands-on experience securing AI/LLM systems, agent frameworks, or MCP tooling
- Nice to have: Prompt injection, tool-permission scoping, or data-boundary work
- Nice to have: Familiarity with PCI DSS, SOC 2, or ISO 27001
- Nice to have: Open source contributions
Benefits
Comp & perks- Full health/vision/dental for the entire family at zero cost to team member
- 3% Safe Harbor contributed to 401(k) plus up to 1% employer match
- Opportunities for profit sharing and bonuses
- Generous time-off (starting at 15 vacation days)
- 11 Paid holidays
- Paid sick leave (80 hours accrued)
- Tuition reimbursement (50/50 up to a specific amount)
- Pet Insurance
- Thrive Pass wellness allowance of $30 per month
- Udemy online learning courses
- Disability Insurance
- Generous maternity/paternity leave
- Discounted personal travel through corporate booking program Egencia
- Laid-back atmosphere
- Fun monthly company events
- Free web hosting
- Company-issued laptop
- Opportunities for growth
- Extensive training
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