Overview:
The Senior Security Engineer - Platform plays a crucial role in ensuring the security and integrity of the organization's platform, systems, and applications. This position is vital in protecting the organization from potential security threats and vulnerabilities, as well as in implementing and maintaining best security practices across the platform. The Senior Security Engineer - Platform collaborates with cross-functional teams to provide expert security guidance and support.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build, improve, and support security platforms and tools leveraging solid software engineering
- Work with security and engineering teams to gather requirements and deliver capabilities
- Adopt and promote secure coding patterns, security automation, and DevSecOps
- Receive mentoring and develop hands-on engineering skills as an early team member
- Assist in maintaining and extending existing security platforms and tools owned by the team
- Partner with engineering teams to balance features and operational excellence
Required Qualifications:
- 1-2 years of experience in backend software engineering and infrastructure roles
- Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems
- Hands-on software development experience in modern languages
- Knowledge of Linux, networking, containers, and cloud infrastructure
- Ability to collaborate cross-functionally to understand needs
- Strong communication and documentation skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in information security, security automation, and/or DevSecOps
- Knowledge of cryptographic concepts, secure coding, and threat modeling
- Familiarity with security technologies like SIEM, WAF, EDR, and SAST
- Experience building and/or operating access control, authentication, and/or authorization systems
