Staff Security Engineer, Security Enablement

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

📋 Description

• Develop the integration layer for physical security systems, encompassing access control and video management platforms, APIs, and data connectors.

• Create and implement security services across multiple domains, including physical security, hardware provisioning, site readiness, cloud and network infrastructure, identity and access management, key management, and reporting/observability.

• Collaborate with software engineers throughout the design and implementation phases.

• Recommend and evaluate architecture to design solutions that are resilient, secure, and scalable.

• Provide support for production services and ensure operational excellence.

• Manage the AWS cloud environment, including services, identity boundaries, and network boundaries.

• Execute intricate security initiatives via detailed working-backwards plans.

• Oversee delivery risks, maintain risk registers, and manage mitigations and delivery timelines.

• Facilitate cross-team collaboration and escalate issues with actionable recommendations and trade-offs.

• Deliver succinct status updates to senior leadership and manage stakeholder expectations effectively.

• Drive technical decisions to completion while documenting tooling recommendations and decisions.

• Contribute to the vision, strategy, technical direction, and success metrics of the organization.

• Mentor engineers and program managers, enhancing plans, status reporting, and operational and security standards.

• Establish shared goals with security partners and identify solutions to optimize or automate inefficient processes.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 6 years in security or infrastructure engineering, with at least 4 years leading multi-team technical programs.

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Security Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience in a related technical field.

• Proficiency with cloud-based services and infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud, etc.).

• Practical expertise with enterprise access control and video platforms (Lenel, Genetec, Milestone, or similar) and their APIs and integrations.

• Skills in project planning and execution, including familiarity with JIRA, reviewing technical design documents, security controls, estimation, and scheduling.

• In-depth knowledge of at least three security engineering domains, with a broad understanding across multiple domains.

• Capability to read network diagrams and analyze cloud deployment topology.

• Understanding of hardware and firmware lifecycles.

• Experience with global-scale software or cloud deployments, vendor platforms, integration, and migration tasks.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to influence without direct authority and adapt plans as conditions change.

• Experience in mentoring engineers and program managers.

• Strong sense of ownership, urgency, independence, and drive.

• Preferred: proficiency in SQL data analysis, Python programming, and other automation tools.

• Preferred: experience in building Agentic workflows.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunities for equity grants.

• 401(k) plan with employer matching.

• 16 weeks of paid parental leave.

• Wellness benefits.

• Commuter benefits matching.

• Paid time off.

• Paid sick leave.

• Medical benefits.

• Dental benefits.

• Vision benefits.

• 11 paid holidays.

• Disability insurance.

• Basic life insurance.

• Family-forming assistance.

• Mental health program.

• Flexible paid time off/vacation for salaried positions.

• 80 hours of paid sick time annually for salaried roles.

• Comprehensive benefits and perks, including premium healthcare.

• Wellness expense reimbursement.