Senior Security Engineer – Corporate Security

🕒 July 27

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $100k - $300k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Cogent Security

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2024

🔒 Cybersecurity

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

Cybersecurity • Artificial Intelligence • SaaS

Cogent Security is an AI-driven vulnerability management platform that autonomously manages the full vulnerability lifecycle for security, IT, and engineering teams. Its system of AI agents ingests real-time context, dynamically prioritizes risk based on business impact and ROI, orchestrates automated remediation, and generates compliance and executive reporting. Cogent aims to reduce manual effort, accelerate time-to-remediate critical vulnerabilities, and scale vulnerability management across enterprises.

📋 Description

• Harden and manage endpoints across the fleet (macOS, and others as needed): baseline hardening, device posture, EDR coverage and tuning • Own corporate identity and access: SSO/MFA, least-privilege access, and identity hygiene across our SaaS stack • Secure and standardize our enterprise systems and SaaS environment; drive Zero Trust / device-trust patterns • Build automation and tooling to enforce security configuration and scale controls without slowing the team down • Handle enterprise security operations - detection, monitoring, and response for corporate systems • Serve as the internal security SME on corporate systems and workflow decisions, and as an early user of what we build

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and managing corporate security / IT security programs • Strong hands-on engineer who produces vs. just manages process • Deep experience hardening endpoints and enterprise systems, with solid OS internals knowledge (macOS, Windows, Linux) • Experience across CorpSec domains: endpoint security, corporate identity, SaaS security, device trust, Zero Trust • Automation ability to build and maintain tooling (e.g. Python, or similar) - you look for smart and secure ways to automate your work to scale yourself • Able to flex up and down: strategic when it matters, in the weeds when it counts • Comfortable being an early security hire at a startup - high ownership, ambiguity, and direct impact. • Bonus Points • Experience standing up a CorpSec function or building enterprise security from an early stage, 0-1 • Familiarity with compliance frameworks (e.g. SOC 2) and supporting audits • DLP, secrets management, or corporate network security experience • Using AI coding tools and agentic workflows daily to move faster and automate more of your own work.

🏖️ Benefits

• Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation, equity, and benefits.