Senior Security Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Ireland.

📋 Description

• Take charge of and enhance our vulnerability management initiative with an emphasis on application security, including container images, dependencies, code scanning, and runtime detection.

• Develop and sustain security tools that seamlessly integrate into CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows, ensuring that security measures are implemented automatically rather than serving as a barrier.

• Leverage AI extensively to accelerate code writing, automate analyses that would typically necessitate manual review, and create intelligent tools that scale beyond the capabilities of a small team.

• Evaluate and enhance our utilization of available telemetry across all systems.

• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to promote secure development practices—not through the creation of standards and documents, but by delivering tools and defaults that make secure choices the easiest options.

• Investigate and address security findings as necessary, but prioritize the development of systems that prevent and detect issues over manual intervention.

• Adapt swiftly as priorities evolve—our team operates in an agile manner, and tomorrow's challenges may differ from today's.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in software and/or platform engineering, with the capability to design, build, and maintain production-quality tools.

• Extensive experience in application security and vulnerability management — you possess a thorough understanding of CVEs, dependency risks, container security, and SDLC integration, along with well-informed opinions on what issues warrant attention and which do not.

• Practical experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably GCP/GKE or similar, and the ability to adapt to our technology stack.

• A proven track record of utilizing AI tools—such as coding assistants and LLMs—as an integral part of your development and analysis processes, rather than as an occasional convenience.

• A strong inclination towards automation—when you identify a repetitive manual task, your instinct is to create a tool rather than a runbook.

• Comfort with ambiguity and a sense of ownership—you will often be the sole individual addressing a problem and will need to make decisions on priority, approach, and scope without awaiting direction.

• Experience in influencing engineering culture regarding security, with the knowledge of how to engage developers without hindering their speed.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly articulate our security posture to customers when necessary.

🏝️ Benefits

• A well-funded and established startup with ambitious goals, offering a competitive salary and the advantages of pre-IPO equity packages.

• Carrot Cash travel stipend.

• Flexdesk All Access Pass & Work-from-home stipend.

• An entrepreneurial culture where pushing boundaries and taking risks is part of everyday operations.

• Open lines of communication with management and company leadership.

• Small, dynamic teams leading to significant impact.