Senior Security Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $150k - $180k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Axios

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2017

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📱 Media

Consulting • Marketing • Media

Axios is a media company that delivers news and insights through various platforms, including newsletters, local news outlets, and exclusive content for professionals. It covers a broad range of topics such as politics, policy, business, technology, health, and energy, providing in-depth reporting and analysis. By focusing on quick, concise, and powerful stories, Axios aims to make news more accessible and engaging for its audience. Its offerings include free daily newsletters like Axios AM and Axios Pro, as well as events and live discussions.

📋 Description

• Lead architectural design and implementation of security controls across cloud infrastructure, platform services, and AI integrations • Drive vulnerability management, threat modeling, incident response, and proactive security assessments across AWS, Kubernetes, and AI application environments • Shape, maintain, and execute the company’s long-term security roadmap with engineering and executive leadership • Embed automated security testing, SAST/DAST, and AI-driven compliance checks into CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code workflows • Oversee IAM, secrets management, encryption protocols, and zero-trust architecture standards • Evaluate, deploy, and maintain internal AI security tools and third-party defensive solutions against AI-driven threats • Conduct threat modeling workshops and coach teams on secure coding and infrastructure practices • Partner with product, infrastructure, data, and QE teams to integrate security throughout the development lifecycle • Establish security monitoring, SIEM alerting, and incident response playbooks • Pilot and deploy defensive AI tools to improve threat detection and reduce exposure risk

🎯 Requirements

• Deep expertise in cloud and application security, including threat modeling, vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, IAM, secrets management, AI security, and compliance frameworks • Strong working knowledge of AWS infrastructure and security controls, including IAM, KMS, EKS, RDS, and S3 • Experience hardening Kubernetes clusters, runtime security, container scanning, and network policy enforcement • Proficiency integrating SAST/DAST and security automation into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions • Solid scripting or programming skills in Python, Go, or Bash for security tooling and automated remediation • Hands-on experience with SIEM, security logging, automated threat intelligence, and AI-powered monitoring frameworks, including Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or modern SOC tooling • Demonstrated leadership driving security initiatives, defining policy, and guiding engineering teams on security risk • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, balancing security requirements and business agility

🏖️ Benefits

• 401(k) with employer match • Robust PPO and High Deductible health insurance options on the Blue Cross Blue Shield network • Employer Health Savings Account (HSA) contribution for the high deductible health plan option • Dental and vision coverage • Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave • Birth-givers will have an additional 6-8 weeks depending on type of delivery, for a total of 18-20 weeks continuous leave • Generous vacation policy, plus holidays • One mental health day per quarter • Annual learning and development stipend • $100 monthly work-from-home stipend • Tele-mental health services through Headspace • OneMedical membership, including tele-health services • Personal health advocacy resources through HealthAdvocate • Inclusive fertility, hormonal health and family forming benefits through Carrot Fertility • Access to the Axios “Axios Employee Support Fund”, which was created to allow employees to request financial support when facing financial hardship or emergencies • Increased work flexibility for parents and caretakers • Virtual company-sponsored social events • A strong and positive work environment • A commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture • Ongoing learning to develop AI literacy and use AI tools to enhance productivity, creativity, and efficiency