Platform Security Engineer

About Our Client:

The organization operates within the knowledge and education sector, aiming to expand access to learning worldwide. It provides services that facilitate education and knowledge sharing, helping individuals overcome barriers to education through its platforms. The organization is committed to fostering a supportive community culture among its employees.

About the Opportunity:

The PLATFORM SECURITY ENGINEER role is focused on advancing the organization's DevOps capabilities into DevSecOps by integrating security into software delivery, infrastructure, and developer workflows. This position is responsible for building engineering solutions that enable teams to identify, prioritize, and remediate security risks efficiently and consistently, thus embedding secure practices as a standard approach within development processes.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and enhance workflows and tools for managing vulnerabilities in applications, dependencies, containers, and infrastructure.
• Promote the integration of security checks and policy controls into software delivery and developer workflows.
• Improve management and governance of dependencies and packages to address software exposure sustainably.
• Evaluate, implement, and fine-tune security tools including SAST, DAST, SCA, and secret scanning.
• Automate remediation efforts to reduce manual work and accelerate secure delivery.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to design secure-by-default patterns, templates, and guardrails.
• Assist in triaging security findings, prioritizing risks, and developing remediation plans.
• Contribute to secure software development lifecycle practices, documentation, and guidelines.
• Measure and recommend improvements for security controls adoption and effectiveness.

Requirements:

• 3-5 years' experience in security engineering, platform engineering, DevSecOps, or a related technical field.
• Practical experience implementing security tools and controls in modern software delivery.
• Knowledge of vulnerability management, dependency management, package governance, or software supply chain security.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, source control, infrastructure automation, and cloud application environments.
• Ability to write scripts or automation to enhance security processes.
• Strong judgment balancing risk reduction, developer experience, and delivery needs.
• Effective communication skills for collaboration with engineers, architects, and stakeholders.
• Capability to work independently and within cross-functional teams while guiding peers.
• Experience with AWS infrastructure and common engineering tools is advantageous.
• Experience with AI-enabled security tooling is a plus but not required.

Pay Range and Compensation Package:

• Starting salary ranges from $110,000 to $120,000 per year, varying based on knowledge, skills, and experience.

Benefits & Perks:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance plans.
• Employer-paid 10% retirement contribution.
• Paid parental and caregiver leave.
• 22 days of paid time off.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Up to 12 paid sick days.
• Wellness benefits.

Equal Opportunity Statement: Our client is an equal opportunity employer. They celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or national origin.

Note:

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