Senior Security Engineer

🕒 October 15

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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VulnCheck

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

🔒 Cybersecurity

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏢 Enterprise

Cybersecurity • Artificial Intelligence • Enterprise

VulnCheck is a next-generation Cyber Threat Intelligence platform that offers businesses unprecedented visibility into the vulnerability ecosystem. It prioritizes and monitors vulnerabilities, exploit proofs-of-concept, and threat actor activities, helping organizations better defend against cyber threats. Through unique early access to vulnerability information and real-time alerting, VulnCheck enables proactive measures against evolving cyber threats, thereby strengthening the overall security posture of its clients.

📋 Description

• Partner with engineering on design and architecture reviews, threat modeling, and secure-by-default patterns for new services • Review and harden Infrastructure-as-Code across cloud environments including EKS, Aurora, OpenSearch, S3, and IAM • Lead least-privilege IAM decomposition and drive stronger identity patterns across the platform • Support disaster recovery testing and resilience exercises with the infrastructure team • Design and build automation that makes detection, response, and compliance work repeatable • Improve and extend onboarding/offboarding automation, alert triage pipelines, and identity/access anomaly detection • Build internal tools that provide engineering with self-service security posture checks • Report to the VP of Information Security and collaborate with engineering

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years in security engineering, with real depth in AWS security and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Terragrunt strongly preferred) • Firm working knowledge of Kubernetes/EKS security — RBAC, network policies, pod security standards, image scanning, and cluster hardening • Strong written communication • A track record of building tools or automation that solved a security problem at scale • Previous use of tools like Crowdstrike, Wiz, Security Hub • Experience with golang • Comfortable working directly with software engineers in code reviews, design discussions, and incident response • Incident investigation and RCA tracking • Experience supporting a SOC 2 (or similar framework) program from the technical/evidence side • Experience with Google Workspace as an identity/IdP source of truth • Self-directed ability to work on problems end to end • Exposure to offensive security or red/purple teaming (preferred) • Familiarity with Aurora or managed OpenSearch specifically (preferred)

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous, flexible time off • Retirement/pension plan contributions (e.g., 401k with match in the US; local pension schemes elsewhere) • Comprehensive healthcare coverage • Generous paid parental leave • Remote-friendly environment with flexibility • Support for home office costs (phone & internet)

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