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