Senior Security Engineer
Cohere
hybridseniorpermanentsecuritybackend New York, NY 32 days ago via LinkedIn
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Application SecuritySecurity OperationsVulnerability ManagementSASTDASTDetection EngineeringIncident ResponseThreat ModelingBug BountySecure SDLC
About the role
Role: Senior Security Engineer
You will serve as a trusted security advisor to leadership and partner teams, helping ensure enterprise AI and applications are built securely without slowing delivery.
Responsibilities
- Serve as trusted advisor by clearly articulating business risks tied to security issues.
- Lead security operations functions, including:
- Vulnerability management
- SAST and DAST
- Detection engineering
- Incident response
- Running these in CI/CD and cloud-native production environments
- Integrate security into the software development lifecycle.
- Collaborate with product and development teams to ensure secure build and deployment while maintaining agility.
- Drive and support:
- Bug bounty program
- Application security reviews
- Threat modeling (including code review and dynamic testing)
- Assess and integrate security tools to automate and scale security processes (evaluate open-source vs vendor options).
- Gather and analyze security metrics, including handling cross-team dependencies.
- Employ a developer-friendly, flexible approach that considers developer concerns.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Application/Product Security or Security Operations, with strong security tool onboarding and optimization.
- Knowledge of vulnerability management, network security, and cloud security concepts and best practices.
- Comfortable operating with ambiguity and making informed decisions with limited data.
- Ability to make trade-offs between build vs buy; help build solutions and review existing tools.
- Hands-on secure engineering skills; can clearly communicate problem statements and propose solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Deep understanding of common security vulnerabilities, risks, countermeasures, and compensating controls.
- Interest in automating security controls.
Nice-to-haves / Additional signals
- Experience with CI/CD security and detection engineering in cloud-native environments.
- Strong emphasis on automation and scaling security processes.
About Cohere
Cohere is a security-first enterprise AI company that builds foundation AI models and end-to-end products for real-world business use cases. The company focuses on training and deploying frontier models for enterprises developing AI systems and partners with teams across research, engineering, and product to drive adoption.
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