Security Engineer

About the company

Our client is a fast-growing technology company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Join as an early security hire and take broad responsibility for protecting cloud-hosted production systems. You will work inside an infrastructure-focused engineering group, building monitoring and incident response capability and helping set sensible security defaults as the business grows.

What you'll do

• Take charge of the protection of cloud-hosted environments and the hosting services around them.
• Share the workload of the existing senior security engineer by absorbing infrastructure-related duties.
• Design and maintain the way credentials, secrets and permissions are managed across every service.
• Build threat detection and incident response tooling, including log analysis and automated response workflows.
• Work with software engineers to make safe configuration the default, covering identity permissions, network isolation and container orchestration controls.

Requirements

What we're looking for

• 4+ years in a hands-on security or infrastructure-oriented engineering role, such as cloud security, security operations, platform work or DevSecOps.
• Background at respected technology companies or startups.
• A degree in a technical or scientific field.
• A track record of owning security outcomes for infrastructure end to end.
• Practical experience securing container orchestration environments, including access controls, policy enforcement and sensitive-data handling.
• Experience setting up and maintaining security settings across cloud environments.
• Ability to work on-site five days a week at the stated location.

Bonus points

• Prior experience as the lone or lead security practitioner at a small organization.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

• Base salary: USD 215,000 to 285,000 per year

Location and work model

• New York, NY, United States
• On-site, 5 days per week in the office
• Full-time