Platform Security Engineer

🕒 October 20

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $110k - $120k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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ITHAKA

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1995

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📚 Education

Consulting • Logistics • Education

ITHAKA is a nonprofit organization that improves access to knowledge and education worldwide by operating digital libraries and preservation services, conducting research and advising colleges, and developing tools and programs to support teaching, learning, and scholarly communication. Its suite of services includes JSTOR, Portico, and other platforms that deliver scholarly journals, books, images, and primary sources to students, researchers, libraries, and publishers, while also advancing initiatives in open access, college affordability, credit mobility, and preservation of digital collections.

📋 Description

• Build and improve engineering workflows and tooling for vulnerability management across applications, dependencies, containers, and infrastructure • Integrate security checks and policy controls into software delivery pipelines and developer workflows • Improve dependency management and package governance • Evaluate, implement, and tune SAST, DAST, SCA, secret scanning, and related platform controls • Build automation to reduce repetitive manual remediation and accelerate secure delivery • Promote secure-by-default patterns, templates, and guardrails • Triage findings, prioritize risks, and translate them into remediation plans • Contribute to secure software development lifecycle practices, documentation, and internal guidance • Measure security-control effectiveness and adoption and recommend improvements • Report to the Associate Director, Product Engineering, with technical direction and architectural guidance from the Chief Architect through a dotted-line relationship

🎯 Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience in security engineering, platform engineering, DevSecOps, or a closely related technical role • Hands-on experience implementing security tooling and controls in modern software delivery environments • Experience with vulnerability management, dependency management, package governance, or software supply chain security • Familiarity with CI/CD, source control workflows, infrastructure automation, and cloud-based application environments • Ability to write scripts or automation to improve security processes and reduce manual effort • Strong judgment about balancing risk reduction, developer experience, and delivery needs • Clear communication skills and ability to work effectively with engineers, architects, and business stakeholders • Ability to work independently and collaborate effectively as part of a cross-functional team, manage substantive technical work, and guide peers in an area of specialty • Experience with AWS infrastructure and services and common engineering tooling is helpful • Experience using AI-enabled tooling is beneficial but not required • Must work and reside in the continental United States • Must not require immigration sponsorship or additional work authorization to work in the United States

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans • Employer-paid 10% retirement contribution • Paid parental and caregiver leave • 22 days of paid time off • 11 paid holidays • Up to 12 paid sick days • Wellness benefits

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