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Security Engineer II Cloud and Platform Security

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Description

You will review cloud security findings and production threats, validate their impact, and work with engineers to resolve root causes. You will improve telemetry, perform cloud, host, and container investigations, and turn incident lessons into stronger controls and detections.

Responsibilities

  • Review cloud security posture findings and validate them against live environments
  • Assess technical and business impact and assign finding severity
  • Drive remediation with platform, infrastructure, and engineering teams
  • Identify recurring misconfigurations and establish security guardrails
  • Triage production security alerts and escalate incidents when warranted
  • Document investigations, decisions, and resolutions
  • Assess log and telemetry coverage across cloud, Kubernetes, hosts, and services
  • Improve SIEM pipelines, detections, and alerting
  • Perform host, container, and cloud forensics
  • Contribute to post-incident reviews and control improvements

Requirements

  • 2–5 years of security experience in security operations, cloud security, detection and response, or incident response and forensics
  • Experience triaging security findings and alerts
  • Working knowledge of AWS, GCP, or Azure cloud security and posture management
  • Familiarity with logging, SIEM, detection tooling, and security telemetry
  • Exposure to incident response and digital forensics
  • Ability to investigate Kubernetes, containers, Linux, and APIs
  • Clear written communication
  • Ability to work with engineering teams to resolve root causes

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Equity
  • Flexible workplace
  • Medical coverage
  • Dental coverage
  • Vision coverage
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Parental leave
  • Retirement plan participation

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