Senior SaaS Security Engineer

AppOmni

Senior SaaS Security Engineer designing and developing security content for SaaS applications. Collaborating closely with Product and Engineering to ensure accurate and actionable security insights.

Posted 5/12/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $175,000 - $210,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cyber SecurityPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design and develop detection logic and security rules to identify threats, suspicious behaviors, and misconfigurations across SaaS applications
Research SaaS platforms (e.g., Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Slack, etc.) to understand security models, APIs, and potential attack surfaces
Translate real-world attack techniques and SaaS security risks into scalable product capabilities, including detections, posture checks, and risk signals
Contribute to both threat detection and posture management content, ensuring broad coverage across identity, access, integrations, and data exposure risks
Analyze large-scale SaaS telemetry to identify patterns, anomalies, and opportunities for new detections or improvements
Continuously improve detection quality by reducing false positives and ensuring signals are actionable for customers
Collaborate with Engineering to productionize detection logic and ensure reliable execution at scale
Partner with Product to shape how security insights are surfaced, prioritized, and explained to users
Stay current on emerging SaaS attack techniques, identity threats, OAuth risks, and AI-related security considerations
Contribute to internal knowledge sharing and help elevate SaaS security expertise across the organization

Requirements

What you’ll need

5–8+ years of experience in cybersecurity
Strong understanding of SaaS security concepts, including identity and access management, OAuth integrations, third-party app risks, and misconfiguration-driven exposure
Experience working with security telemetry and logs, including querying and analyzing large datasets (e.g., SQL, Python, or similar tools)
Experience developing or tuning detection logic, rules, or analytics in a SIEM, XDR, or similar system
Familiarity with SaaS application APIs and security-relevant data sources
Understanding of attacker techniques in SaaS environments, including identity-based attacks, privilege escalation, and persistence mechanisms
Ability to translate complex technical findings into clear, actionable security insights
Experience balancing detection fidelity, coverage, and performance in production systems
Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail
Strong written and verbal communication skills

Benefits

Comp & perks

Generous PTO
Company and floating holidays
Parental and family leave
Health insurance (medical, dental, vision with HSA option)
EAP
Company-provided life insurance
AD&D
STD/LTD
Supplemental life insurance options
401(k) with Roth
Monthly wellness benefit reimbursement

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Hard Skills & Tools

cybersecuritySaaS securityidentity and access managementOAuth integrationsdetection logicSIEMXDRSQLPythonsecurity telemetry

Soft Skills

analytical thinkingproblem-solvingattention to detailwritten communicationverbal communication