Security Engineer

DISCO; Melbourne; Remote; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Four weeks paid vacation

Paid parental leave

Company laptop

Internet allowance

Learning and development allowance

Job summary

DISCO is expanding its security program with a dedicated Security Engineer role focused on end-to-end security across applications, cloud, and incident response. You will drive secure design, threat modelling, and remediation across Python/Django/React stacks, with emphasis on AWS security and SOC 2 compliance.

You will collaborate with engineering, product, legal, and leadership while working remotely from Australia.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in engineering and 5+ years of hands-on security experience in a product security, application security, or security engineering role
• Experience with threat hunting, threat intelligence, or red team activities
• Strong Python/Django application security knowledge - you know how web vulnerabilities present in this stack and how to fix them, not just find them
• Solid AWS cloud security experience covering IAM, network controls, and secure architecture patterns
• Practical incident response experience including experience being on call - you have led an incident before and know what a first class response looks like
• Working knowledge of SOC2 or a comparable compliance framework, mapped to engineering practice (not just audit readiness)
• The ability to communicate risk clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Comfort working autonomously in a remote, cross-timezone environment - you know when to escalation and when to just get on with it

Responsibilities

• Lead security engineering for our Python/Django/React application, including code reviews, threat modelling, and security design reviews for new features and existing platform components
• Own static analysis, dependency scanning, secret scanning in CI and triage of findings
• Coordinate penetration testing - including agentic scanning using frontier models; internal red team testing and third party testing - and drive remediation of findings
• Partner with engineers to set secure coding standards and provide practical guidance
• SSO/MFA enforcement for internal tooling, on and offboarding processes and access reviews
• Secure, auditable staff platform access
• Collaborate with our Platform team to secure our AWS environment: IAM, network architecture, secrets management, and compute/data layer hardening
• Define and automate security baselines for infrastructure, including container security and CI/CD pipeline integrity
• Lead secure architecture reviews for new systems and significant infrastructure changes
• Build and maintain detection capabilities across our application, cloud, and SaaS stack, including anomaly detection and alerts
• Manage security incident response: triage, containment, investigation, stakeholder communication, and post-incident review
• Develop runbooks and response playbooks so that when incidents happen, we are ready
• Contribute to our SOC2 compliance program, including evidence collection, control monitoring, and audit readiness
• Conduct vendor and customer security assessments
• Communicate security risks clearly to engineering and leadership, and drive prioritisation of remediation work
• Contribute to keeping security policies and documentation current and fit for purpose
• Define the security roadmap, assessing priority based on impact and risk
• Act as a voice for security in architecture decisions
• Mentor engineers and other staff on security and build a security first culture
• Report on security posture to leads and other departments
• Advise and contribute to internal IT and physical security initiatives

Skills

Security engineering

Threat hunting

Python

AWS security

Incident response

Security risk comms

Tools

Django

React

Job description

DISCO is the industry standard for managing, organising and sharing music and other media. We make music and media workflow fast, intuitive and simple, directly connecting people and their work to save time. Today we count UMG, Sony, Warner Music, Netflix, Amazon among our customers, and hundreds of thousands of industry professionals interact with DISCO each month. Our customers are super passionate about our product.

The Opportunity

As DISCO grows, we're investing further in security by creating a dedicated Security Engineer role. You'll build on the strong foundations our engineering team has established as a SOC 2-compliant SaaS company in the music industry, and help shape how our security program evolves and scales.

This role will work with security end-to-end at DISCO: internal and application security, cloud infrastructure, detection and response, and compliance. You will collaborate directly with engineering, product, legal and leadership, setting standards, assisting to harden our systems and build out the monitoring and processes that keep our platform and our customers' data safe.

If you are passionate about real security and you want to be the person who writes the playbook rather than follows one, this role is for you.

Location

This is a remote position open to applicants who live and work in Australia.

What You'll Do

Application Security

• Lead security engineering for our Python/Django/React application, including code reviews, threat modelling, and security design reviews for new features and existing platform components
• Own static analysis, dependency scanning, secret scanning in CI and triage of findings
• Coordinate penetration testing - including agentic scanning using frontier models; internal red team testing and third party testing - and drive remediation of findings
• Partner with engineers to set secure coding standards and provide practical guidance.

Identity and Access

• SSO/MFA enforcement for internal tooling, on and offboarding processes and access reviews
• Secure, auditable staff platform access

Cloud and Infrastructure Security

• Collaborate with our Platform team to secure our AWS environment: IAM, network architecture, secrets management, and compute/data layer hardening
• Define and automate security baselines for infrastructure, including container security and CI/CD pipeline integrity
• Lead secure architecture reviews for new systems and significant infrastructure changes

Detection and Incident Response

• Build and maintain detection capabilities across our application, cloud, and SaaS stack, including anomaly detection and alerts
• Manage security incident response: triage, containment, investigation, stakeholder communication, and post-incident review
• Develop runbooks and response playbooks so that when incidents happen, we are ready

Security Compliance and Risk

• Contribute to our SOC2 compliance program, including evidence collection, control monitoring, and audit readiness
• Conduct vendor and customer security assessments
• Communicate security risks clearly to engineering and leadership, and drive prioritisation of remediation work
• Contribute to keeping security policies and documentation current and fit for purpose

Security Leadership

• Define the security roadmap, assessing priority based on impact and risk
• Act as a voice for security in architecture decisions
• Mentor engineers and other staff on security and build a security first culture
• Report on security posture to leads and other departments
• Advise and contribute to internal IT and physical security initiatives

What You'll Bring

• 7+ years in engineering and 5+ years of hands-on security experience in a product security, application security, or security engineering role
• Experience with threat hunting, threat intelligence, or red team activities
• Strong Python/Django application security knowledge - you know how web vulnerabilities present in this stack and how to fix them, not just find them
• Solid AWS cloud security experience covering IAM, network controls, and secure architecture patterns
• Practical incident response experience including experience being on call - you have led an incident before and know what a first class response looks like
• Working knowledge of SOC2 or a comparable compliance framework, mapped to engineering practice (not just audit readiness)
• The ability to communicate risk clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Comfort working autonomously in a remote, cross-timezone environment - you know when to escalation and when to just get on with it

Bonus Points

• Experience building a security program at a scaling startup
• Familiarity with the music industry or B2B SaaS, including specific audio technologies like HLS
• Relevant certifications: OSCP, CISSP, AWS Security Specialty, or similar

Benefits

At DISCO, our employees have told us what benefits mean the most to them, and we've listened. So as a DISCO employee, you will work remotely from home (or a co-working space) whilst being supported by a friendly and fun international team. In addition, you will receive:

• A competitive salary in a fast-growing startup
• Four weeks of paid vacation leave per year
• Two weeks of paid sick leave per year
• Paid Parental Leave
• A company laptop
• Monthly internet allowance/reimbursement
• Office set-up allowance
• Annual learning and development allowance
• The ability to work how you want. We're not heavy on rule books. Everyone is trusted to figure out the best way to work.

At DISCO, we strongly believe in the uniqueness of thought, experience and perspective that can only be achieved through having an inclusive and diverse workforce. We strive to continue making DISCO an incredible place to work by fostering a culture of inclusiveness, diversity, openness, and collaboration. We value all different kinds of experience, so even if you feel you don't meet all of the necessary criteria for this position, we encourage you to apply.