smarterdx

Staff Security Engineer

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At a Glance

Location
United States
Work Regime
remote
Experience
8+ years
Posted
2026-07-21T17:19:00-04:00

Key Requirements

Required Skills

AWSKubernetesPythonTerraformTypeScript

Domain Knowledge

  • Engineering

Benefits & Perks

Time Off

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Requirements

8+ years in security and software engineering, with deep hands-on experience in AWS and cloud-native infrastructure, including working competence with containerized workloads (EKS) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).

A track record of leading complex security work across teams and making other engineers more effective.

Depth in AI and agentic security: securing LLM applications, agentic frameworks, and MCP, plus prompt-injection and agentic-access defenses.

Depth in threat detection engineering: designing, authoring, and tuning detections in a modern SIEM, and reasoning about coverage against real threats.

Incident-response experience, including building the plan and running the response.

The ability to write production code (Python, Go, or TypeScript) and build security tooling, not only configure products.

Compensation & Benefits

$230k to 250k base salary

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Benefits

Medical, Dental & Vision

– Comprehensive plans with leading insurance providers, covering 75% of your premiums, depending on the plan.

Paid Parental Leave

Responsibilities

Own our approach to AI and agentic security: guardrails for agentic access to cloud and data, and the security of the AI and ML workloads in our product.

Publish the org's AI-security standard and drive its adoption by other engineering teams.

Own our detection platform (Panther): detection strategy and coverage across cloud, container, and SaaS log sources, and the standards that keep detections high-signal as we grow.

Own incident-response readiness: the plan, the playbooks, and tested tabletops tied to the HIPAA breach-notification timeline, and help lead response when a real incident happens.

Lead complex security work across teams from start to finish, resolving ambiguity and coordinating with Platform, Engineering, and Compliance.

Act as the senior security resource across cloud security and security reviews, and the security expert other engineering teams seek out for guidance on high-stakes decisions.