Security Engineer

🔥 12 hours ago

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Upwind Security

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51 - 200 employees

🔐 Security

☁️ SaaS

Security • SaaS • Cloud Security

Upwind Security is a next-generation cloud security company that specializes in providing comprehensive protection for multi-cloud infrastructures. Their platform consolidates various security tools, offering cloud security posture management (CSPM), runtime vulnerability management, and API security, among other features. Upwind Security focuses on delivering real-time threat detection and vulnerability prioritization to enhance team efficiency and reduce organizational risks. With a strong emphasis on empowering DevOps and Security teams, Upwind Security simplifies cloud security management, offering solutions that address critical infrastructure and application security needs.

📋 Description

• Fine-tune Upwind's detection and response mechanisms • Conduct proactive reviews of customer environments to identify risks and exposed attack surfaces, and recommend improvements • Lead in-depth security investigations involving supply chain, API, malware, and runtime attack scenarios • Document investigation outcomes and develop playbooks to improve future detection and response • Collaborate with Security Analysts, Research, and Backend teams to enhance detection quality • Handle complex or critical incidents escalated from Tier 1/2, including live customer engagements • Participate in recurring customer meetings and translate security findings into clear, actionable recommendations • Stay current with emerging threats, attack techniques, attack surfaces, and cloud-security best practices • Contribute to developing and training AI-driven detection models using machine learning to improve investigation accuracy and response efficiency • Independently own U.S.-hours coverage as the founding U.S. member of the Security organization

🎯 Requirements

• Visa sponsorship is not available • Participation in a shared on-call rotation, including availability for nights, weekends, or holidays during the rotation week • Solid, hands-on experience in cybersecurity, ideally from a leading cloud or cloud security company, with real-world exposure to cloud environments • Strong working knowledge of detection engineering, incident response, and threat analysis • Ability to explain supply chain, API, malware, and runtime attack techniques in depth • Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform: AWS, GCP, or Azure • Experience with container technologies: Docker/Kubernetes • Hands-on Linux experience; Windows knowledge is a plus • Familiarity with networking fundamentals and scripting: Python/Bash • Strong communication and presentation skills, with proven ability to engage directly with customers and stay composed under pressure or pushback • Self-directed and comfortable operating independently in a fast-paced, high-ownership startup environment • Curiosity, problem-solving mindset, and genuine personal interest in security beyond the day job • B.Sc. in Computer Science / Information Security — an advantage

🏖️ Benefits

• Shared on-call rotation with expected availability for nights, weekends, or holidays during the rotation week • Clear path toward technical or team leadership as the U.S. presence scales