Security Engineer II

ActBlue

Security Engineer II at ActBlue, focused on identifying and responding to security threats against our systems and donations platform.

Posted 5/18/2026full-timeRemote • Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $136,611 - $166,263 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudGoPythonRuby

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Maintain and enhance security related tooling with the team including Security Log Aggregation, AV, Development Buildtime and Cloud Runtime tooling.
Automate detections throughout our tooling stack leveraged to uncover security events and attacks against our systems.
Implement, iterate, and operate security automation aimed at supporting our engineers during their building processes, reducing the time it takes to remediate discovered vulnerabilities.
Perform vulnerability assessments and ad hoc security reviews to identify and prioritize potential security risks and vulnerabilities
Partner closely with engineers to perform security reviews that support our software and infrastructure engineers early in their engineering process
Participate in incident response activities, including investigation, containment, and recovery efforts

Requirements

What you’ll need

You get git. You have a working level knowledge of how to manage with your local IDE and CLI, and routinely perform the activities of code committing.
Experience in automating security workflows and functions for detections patterns utilizing AWS Lambda and Step Functions.
Ability to deploy, manage, monitor, and/or provide sustainable operational support for a subset of technology that our team relies on to enforce security requirements and detect threat actors to defend Actblue
Ability to perform reviews that demonstrate deep domain expertise in one or more core security domains and secondary specializations, (e.g. infrastructure security, application security, corporate IT security, security operations)
Excellent communication skills
Experience with OWASP principles
Experience deploying tools that make it easier for engineers to build safely
Proficiency in Python, Ruby, and/or Go (Preference is ordered)
Ability to participate in the team’s on call rotation

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible work schedules and an unlimited time-off policy
Fully paid and trans-inclusive health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families; plus fully-paid health reimbursement arrangement to use for out of pocket expenses and fully-paid short- and long-term disability
Fully paid basic and AD&D life insurance and a voluntary supplemental life insurance option
Dependent and health care flexible spending account options
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits for employees
Automatic 2% Employer-paid 401K contribution, plus up to an additional 6% match on employee contributions
A minimum of three months paid medical, family and parental leave (for all new parents, adoptions included)
Commuter or home-office benefits, including a $1,000 home-office setup allowance for all new full-time remote employees
Additional perks including quarterly snack deliveries and digital subscriptions to the Boston Globe & New York Times

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonRubyGoAWS LambdaStep Functionsvulnerability assessmentssecurity automationincident responsesecurity reviewssecurity tooling

Soft Skills

excellent communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingattention to detailcritical thinkingadaptabilityteamworktime managementorganizational skillsleadership