Summary
What you’ll impact
Our company is seeking an expert security generalist to shape and lead its security operations, building detection pipelines, observability, and incident response for a high‑growth, open‑source organization. The role involves hands‑on work across cloud security, threat hunting, vulnerability disclosure, and enabling product teams with secure design practices.
Responsibilities
What you'll do
- Build from Scratch: You aren't maintaining someone else's legacy SIEM. You are shaping the security team, culture and tooling for a high-growth, open-source company.
- Zero Bureaucracy: We hate meetings. We don't have "Security Committees." You have the autonomy to make changes and move fast.
- Transparency: We work in the open. You’ll be able to see (and contribute to) how we handled past incidents, like this NPM package compromise.
- Direct Impact: Your work directly protects the data of thousands of customers. When you improve our security posture, the whole company (and our community) feels it.
- Triage and Tune: You’ll own our Wiz alerts. You’ll be responsible for turning "noise" into "actionable findings" and ensuring we aren't just staring at a dashboard of issues that don't actually matter. We already get relatively few alerts, and we’d like to even further reduce that to just the ones that matter.
- Incident detection, response: You’ll lead the charge on security incidents. Whether it’s a compromised NPM package or a suspicious IAM pattern, you’ll help coordinate the response and lead the post-mortem. You’ll also help build our IR runbooks.
- Build Observability: You’ll build detection pipelines, and close our network-based observability gaps. We want to be able to trace network requests and suspicious activity all the way back to specific code paths.
- Threat Hunting: You’ll proactively hunt for threats in our AWS environment. You won't just wait for an alert; you'll define what "good" looks like and build the telemetry to prove it.
- The VDP: You’ll support our Vulnerability Disclosure Program, triaging reports from researchers and eventually transitioning us toward a formal bug bounty program.
- Enable the Team: You’ll support our product squads with threat modeling and secure design reviews. We don't do "Security says no", we do "Security says 'here is how to do this safely.'"
- Help build our security culture: Our engineers trust the security team and view security as an enabler. You’ll be a crucial part of helping to continue this excellent (and uncommon) working relationship.
Requirements
What you’ll bring
- Cloud Native: You have 3-5+ years of experience in security engineering with a heavy focus on AWS. You know your way around IAM, VPC logs, and CloudTrail like the back of your hand.
- Detection Specialist: You’ve used CSPM/CNAPP tools (like Wiz or Prisma) and, more importantly, you know how to build detection pipelines that engineers actually trust.
- Battle-Tested: You’ve led incident response before. You’re calm under pressure and know how to coordinate across teams to contain a threat.
- High Autonomy: We don’t have a security SOC. You’ll be building this function from scratch, so you need to be comfortable deciding what’s important and executing on it without a manual.
- Engineering skills: You bring strong engineering experience and next to digging into code to understand an exploit or a vulnerability, you can write code with the same proficiency as our product engineers.
- Communication and attitude: As mentioned before we don't do "Security says no", we do "Security says 'here is how to do this safely.” This is crucial for us, we need people that want to enable engineers and work with them, not limit them.