Principal Security Engineer

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🕒 September 11

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $132.2k - $242.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Alkira

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2023

🏠 Real Estate

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Alkira is a Dubai-based private real estate advisory and luxury brokerage focused on Dubai's ultra-prime residential and commercial market. The firm positions itself as a discreet, high-touch custodian for high-net-worth and institutional clients, offering services including property acquisition and disposal (off-market and listed), leasing, valuation, marketing, and investment advisory (including mortgage modelling and financial analysis). Alkira emphasizes exclusivity, off-market access, regulatory accreditation (RERA, Dubai Land Department), and a data-driven, client-confidential approach to securing landmark residences and commercial assets across Dubai's established districts.

📋 Description

• Define and drive long-term security architecture and strategy across cloud, infrastructure, application, platform, and operational security domains • Own Alkira’s HackerOne bug bounty program, including triage, severity assessment, remediation coordination, and researcher communication • Serve as technical authority for Kubernetes, container, Linux, and cloud security • Lead security architecture reviews and establish secure design, implementation, and deployment standards for cloud-native systems • Drive enterprise-wide risk reduction through threat modeling, vulnerability management, and proactive security assessments • Build detection engineering and security monitoring on the Coralogix observability stack • Lead security investigations, incident response, and post-incident improvements across complex distributed environments • Design and implement scalable security controls, automation, and engineering frameworks • Partner with senior engineering and business leaders to align security initiatives with company objectives and platform growth • Mentor security and engineering teams and establish security best practices, governance models, and technical standards • Participate in the on-call rotation handling security alerts and incoming threats • Report to the Director of Platform Engineering within Platform Engineering

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience • 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, security engineering, infrastructure security, or cloud security roles • Deep expertise securing large-scale cloud-native environments, distributed systems, and modern application platforms • Advanced expertise with Kubernetes security, including workload protection, container security, platform hardening, and runtime security • Expert-level Linux administration, hardening, automation, troubleshooting, and system-level security experience • Ability to write production-quality automation and tooling in Go, Python, or a comparable language • Experience across cloud security, application security, infrastructure security, identity and access management, and security operations • Extensive experience with threat modeling, risk assessments, vulnerability management, and security architecture reviews • Ability to lead technical strategy, influence executive stakeholders, and drive security outcomes across large engineering organizations • Preferred: experience securing SaaS, cloud infrastructure, networking, or platform engineering environments • Preferred: understanding of DevSecOps, software supply chain security, IaC security, and CI/CD security controls • Preferred: cloud security architecture experience across AWS, GCP, and Azure • Preferred: security automation, detection engineering, monitoring, and incident response experience • Preferred: knowledge of SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, CIS, and related frameworks • Preferred: experience leading cross-functional security programs and large-scale security transformation initiatives • Preferred: certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, GIAC, CKS, or cloud security certifications • Preferred: Master’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Security, or a related technical discipline • Must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer-sponsored visa • Must complete the interview process, including a coding challenge, hiring-manager screening, and technical interviews • Selected candidates undergo a background screen, which may include criminal-record, motor-vehicle-report, and/or drug screening

🏖️ Benefits

• Base salary of $132,232–$242,425 USD • Equal employment opportunities and nondiscrimination protections • Background screening process with case-by-case evaluation • Opportunity to work on Alkira’s cloud-native enterprise networking platform as part of Lumen • Supportive, connected work culture with shared accountability • Clear expectations and trust-based work environment

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