Security Engineer

Role & responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain security-focused backend services and APIs in Python.

Implement authentication and authorization mechanisms, including IAM policies, roles, and service permissions.

Build tools and frameworks to secure customer-built data pipelines, ensuring consistent, enforced security policies across the platform.

Integrate with AWS security services such as IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudTrail, and GuardDuty to provide robust, automated security controls.

Develop monitoring and alerting for security events, misconfigurations, and policy violations.

Conduct security reviews of platform features, API designs, and infrastructure changes.

Collaborate with platform engineers, data engineers, and frontend teams to deliver secure-by-default user experiences.

Participate in threat modeling, architecture discussions, sprint planning, and code reviews.

Contribute to automation, testing, and CI/CD pipelines to enforce security best practices in deployments.

Preferred candidate profile

Strong experience with Python development, ideally in a cloud-native, serverless context.

Solid understanding of AWS security services and best practices (IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, SCPs, Organizations).

Experience designing and consuming REST APIs with secure authentication and authorization.

Familiarity with infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform) for defining and enforcing security policies.

Understanding of secure software development practices, including threat modeling, secure code reviews, and vulnerability management.

Commitment to writing well-tested, maintainable code, with unit and integration testing.

Familiarity with version control (Git) and CI/CD best practices.

Strong communication skills and a collaborative, security-first mindset.