Security Engineer

Role: Security Engineer

Contract: 6 months (strong potential for extension)

Hourly Rate: 90-100/hr INC

Your New Company

Join a leading, product‑driven SaaS organization dedicated to delivering secure, scalable, and intuitive cloud-based solutions to customers across North America. You’ll be part of a modern engineering culture that values collaboration, craftsmanship, and proactive security. The team is growing, the product is evolving, and your work will have a direct impact on both platform reliability and customer trust.

Your New Role

As a Security Engineer, you will help secure our platform, infrastructure, and internal systems by designing and implementing defensive controls, driving vulnerability management, and strengthening our detection and response capabilities. You will partner closely with Engineering, IT, and Product teams to ensure our environment meets the expectations of enterprise‑grade security while maintaining usability and performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Vulnerability Management: Maintain and evolve the vulnerability management program, ensuring timely identification, prioritization, and remediation of risks.
• Security Partnership: Collaborate with IT to strengthen email security, anti‑virus, endpoint protection, and VPN technologies.
• Monitoring & Detection: Define logging requirements, enhance alerting, and support continuous threat‑monitoring capabilities.
• Incident Response: Serve as a first responder for security alerts. Triage, investigate, and support incident response workflows.
• Threat Modeling: Analyze new and existing applications/services to identify risks and define mitigation strategies.
• Security Architecture: Design, architect, and implement security controls across cloud services and microservice environments.

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What You’ll Need to Succeed

• 3+ years of experience in Security Engineering or Security Operations.
• Strong understanding of SOC 2 Type II and familiarity with PCI-DSS.
• A DevSecOps mindset with hands‑on cloud security experience (microservices, cloud‑native tooling, secure CI/CD).
• Experience with IAM frameworks such as SAML, OAuth, and OpenID.
• Proven experience with vulnerability management and security remediation workflows.
• Background in incident response (SIRT member or incident commander experience is a plus).
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to partner with technical and non‑technical teams.

Bonus Points

• Comfortable working in a Mac‑based environment.
• Experience with: GCP, GlobalProtect VPN, CrowdStrike, Arctic Wolf, Jira, Okta, Google Workspace.
• Automation experience to improve or scale security/IT workflows.

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• Familiarity with GitHub and Kubernetes.
• Relevant certifications (GCP/AWS Security, GIAC, GDAT, CISSP, CEH, CISM).
• Experience protecting SaaS products.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related STEM discipline.

What You’ll Get in Return

• A fully remote role anywhere in North America.
• The opportunity to shape the security posture of a modern, customer‑centric SaaS platform.
• A collaborative culture that values innovation, ownership, and continuous learning.
• Occasional travel for team gatherings (1–2 times per year).
• Monday to Friday, standard business hours.

What You Need to Do Now

If you’re a security-minded engineer passionate about cloud infrastructure, threat detection, and building secure-by-design systems, we want to hear from you. Apply today and help shape the future of our security program.