Senior Security Engineer, Blue Team

Role overview

Senior Security Engineer (Blue Team) responsible for strengthening and scaling a modern security program. You will protect critical systems by leading assessments, improving threat detection, responding to incidents, and building automation to increase operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive security assessments of third-party vendors, applications, and external partners; evaluate security maturity and risks.
• Design, develop, and maintain internal security tools, automation, and scripts.
• Lead and support incident response: investigate, contain, remediate, and document security incidents.
• Enhance endpoint protection by implementing and optimizing EDR, application control, and threat detection capabilities.
• Partner with DevOps and engineering teams to identify, assess, and mitigate security risks in cloud environments, with a focus on AWS.
• Improve security processes, monitoring capabilities, and defensive technologies; promote security best practices.
• Communicate findings, risks, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience as a Security Engineer or comparable cybersecurity role.
• Hands-on experience with third-party security assessments and vendor/application security reviews.
• Strong programming experience, preferably Rust, Python, PHP, or similar languages for security tooling and automation.
• Experience securing macOS environments and cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS.
• Experience participating in incident response, threat investigation, and security operations.
• Solid understanding of endpoint security, EDR, and threat detection methodologies.
• Working knowledge of SQL and experience using databases during investigations.
• Excellent communication skills across technical and business audiences.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with identity and access management solutions such as Okta or CrowdStrike Falcon.

Compensation & benefits

• Base salary: $130,000–$185,000 (depending on experience, location, and qualifications)
• Performance-based bonus opportunities
• Fully remote with company-sponsored in-person gatherings and annual offsite events
• Medical, dental, vision; 401(k) with matching; wellness benefits
• Company-provided hardware, software, and tools