Staff Engineer, Enterprise Security (SaaS & AI)

REA Group Melbourne, AUS; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Birthday leave

Additional leave purchase

Parental leave

Volunteering leave

Community grants

Hackdays

Job summary

REA Group in Melbourne is seeking a Staff Engineer - Security to provide deep technical leadership across the security stack, from identity and data protection to endpoint and cloud security. You will design, build and improve secure platforms that scale with our SaaS and workforce AI needs.

You will partner with Enterprise Technology, mentor engineers, and shape roadmaps while aligning controls with risk appetite.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8+ years of security engineering or related roles.
• Senior technical leadership with cross-team influence.
• Experience embedding security into design and delivery at scale.
• Strong identity management and cloud security expertise.
• Proficiency with security tooling and IaC (Terraform).

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across complex security initiatives.
• Design, implement and operate secure solutions for enterprise platforms.
• Embed security controls into employee-facing technology and SaaS platforms.
• Lead risk assessments and pragmatic remediation strategies.
• Mentor security and software engineers across teams.

Skills

Security engineering

Technical leadership

Identity management

SIEM

EDR

SaaS security

Secrets management

Privileged access

Terraform

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

REA Group in Melbourne is seeking a Staff Engineer - Security to provide deep technical leadership across the security stack, from identity and data protection to endpoint and cloud security. You will design, build and improve secure platforms that scale with our SaaS and workforce AI needs.

You will partner with Enterprise Technology, mentor engineers, and shape roadmaps while aligning controls with risk appetite.