[Hiring] Senior Security Engineer @Aptible

Role Description

In this role, you'll be a hands-on security engineer defending and hardening a platform that regulated companies build their businesses on. This is an engineering role first; you'll design security-by-default infrastructure, run our vulnerability management program, drive our pentesting program, and lead incident response when things go wrong. You'll also bring the organizational rigor to run a compliance recertification when the underlying technical controls are already sound.

What You'll Do

• Engineering
  • Design and build security-by-default infrastructure across our AWS-based PaaS.
  • Own and mature our vulnerability management program.
  • Own our pentesting program end to end.
  • Lead incident response operations.
  • Build and maintain detection tooling, alerting, and runbooks.
  • Participate in on-call rotation for security-relevant incidents.
• Compliance
  • Run point on compliance recertifications and maintaining current standards.
  • Use AI tools to improve your development and investigation workflow.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in security engineering.
• Experience as a hands-on security engineer.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Developer tools or platform engineering experience is a plus.

Requirements

• Strong engineering fundamentals and coding ability.
• Deep, hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure security (AWS preferred).
• Real pentesting experience, including with automated/AI-assisted tools.
• Experience running or contributing to a vulnerability management program.
• Experience leading or participating in incident response.
• Comfort working across identity management, network security, and detection tooling.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity options.
• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Flexible work hours and remote work options.
• Professional development opportunities.