
Security Engineer
XBOW
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $140,000 - $180,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Design and implement security controls across cloud, infrastructure, and internal platforms
- Partner with engineering to harden cloud architecture, IAM, and infrastructure
- Own product security reviews for new features, services, and major architecture changes
- Drive threat modeling and secure design decisions early in the SDLC
- Operate and improve AppSec workflows (SAST, SCA, secrets scanning, IaC scanning)
- Triage vulnerabilities across application, container, and cloud findings, and drive remediation with risk-based SLAs
- Define and run the vulnerability management lifecycle: intake, prioritization, exception handling, validation, and reporting
- Improve CNAPP coverage and finding quality across cloud accounts and workloads
- Improve Kubernetes and container security posture
- Monitor, investigate, and respond to security events and incidents
- Build automation to improve security operations, access workflows, and incident response
- Support the compliance function by implementing and maintaining technical controls for SOC 2 and ISO 27001, and by documenting security processes, playbooks, and policies that scale with the company
- Support the IT team with timezone coverage for core operational security tasks, including SaaS administration (Okta, Google Workspace, 1Password), onboarding/offboarding workflows, and endpoint access management (MDM, VPN, and secure device provisioning) for a fully remote team.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in security engineering, product security, cloud/platform security, or closely related roles
- Strong hands-on experience securing cloud environments (AWS and Azure)
- Comfortable owning technical security problems end-to-end in fast-moving environments
- Hands-on experience with product/application security in engineering environments (secure design reviews, threat modeling, code-level risk discussions)
- Experience operating AppSec tooling and processes at scale (SAST, SCA, secrets, IaC scanning)
- Strong vulnerability triage and remediation management experience, including risk-based prioritization and SLAs
- Experience with CNAPP (or equivalent cloud security platforms) and tuning findings for engineering actionability
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes/container security in production systems
- Ability to partner with developers and platform teams to ship secure defaults without blocking delivery
- Comfortable writing scripts and automations to improve security reliability and scale
- Experience in incident response, investigation, and post-incident hardening in cloud-native environments
- Familiar with SOC 2 requirements and comfortable implementing technical controls to support compliance
- Security-minded, detail-oriented, and a proactive communicator in remote-first teams
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Clear performance-based incentives
- Equity package
- Significant opportunities to progress within the sales organization and shape your career trajectory
- Direct impact on XBOW’s mission to revolutionize cybersecurity and protect organizations worldwide
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
security engineeringcloud securityproduct securityvulnerability managementthreat modelingAppSec toolingSASTSCAIaC scanningKubernetes security
Soft Skills
proactive communicationdetail-orientedproblem-solvingcollaborationownershipadaptabilityincident responseinvestigationrisk-based prioritizationautomation