Clay

Security Engineer

Clay

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York CityNew YorkUnited States

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Salary

💰 $225,000 - $300,000 per year

About the role

  • Build security primitives, tooling, and automation that scale with the product and engineering org
  • Define and implement our strategy for modern security workflows: AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, automated code review, threat detection, and remediation
  • Collaborate with Infrastructure and Product Engineering to make secure defaults the easiest path
  • Own projects end to end: design, implementation, rollout, and measurement
  • Secure our cloud environment (IAM, network policies, container security, secrets management, and misconfiguration prevention)
  • Define and enforce least-privilege access patterns across services and humans.
  • Improve cloud visibility and control using infrastructure-as-code and cloud security tooling (we currently use Terraform, AWS Config, and AWS Security Hub)
  • Develop preventative controls and safe deployment patterns that reduce the probability and blast radius of incidents
  • Lead secure design and secure coding practices, and prevent common vulnerability classes.
  • Perform architecture reviews and code-level security reviews, and work hands-on with engineers to ship fixes.
  • Own the vulnerability discovery and validation lifecycle: static and dynamic analysis, dependency checks, pen tests, and bug bounties. Integrate modern automated detection systems (including Claude Mythos-class models) to find vulnerabilities at scale.
  • Build and deploy security agents and automated workflows that can scan codebases, propose fixes, and in some cases autonomously deploy security patches.
  • Build frameworks and reusable components for authentication, authorization, and secure-by-default patterns.
  • Define practical policies and controls for code generation tools and coding agent changes, so they can be used safely and consistently.

Requirements

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping production systems
  • Deep expertise in either cloud security or application security, with the ability to flex into the adjacent domain
  • Ability to build, not just advise: You translate risk into concrete engineering work and ship solutions
  • Comfort with ambiguity: You thrive when building from first principles and defining what good looks like
  • Forward-thinking about tooling: Interest in leveraging modern automation and AI to scale security operations while maintaining engineering rigor
Benefits
  • All employees can work for free with world-class coaches who specialize in creativity, management, and more.
  • Offers Equity
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud securityapplication securityinfrastructure-as-codestatic analysisdynamic analysisvulnerability discoveryautomated code reviewthreat detectionsecure coding practicespreventative controls
Soft Skills
collaborationleadershipproblem-solvingadaptabilitycommunicationstrategic thinkingrisk managementcreativityattention to detailcomfort with ambiguity