Staff Security Engineer - Enterprise, Cloud & AI (Hybrid)

News Corp; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Flexible leave options

Flexible parental leave

Because We Care volunteering & matched

Hackdays

Job summary

REA Group in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane or Adelaide seeks a Staff Engineer - Security to lead security design and implementation across SaaS, endpoints and AI-enabled tooling. You’ll shape secure architectures, mentor engineers, and partner with Enterprise Technology to embed controls at scale.

You will drive risk-based decisions, own core security platforms, and influence roadmaps to balance resilience, privacy and operational velocity.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in security engineering or closely related roles within modern cloud environments.
• Senior technical leader or staff/principal level engineer influencing cross-team security outcomes at scale.
• Experience embedding security into design and delivery with software/platform/data teams.
• Proven experience leading or contributing to technical responses for major security incidents or vulnerabilities.
• Expert-level enterprise security architecture and engineering experience.
• Strong experience with identity management concepts and technologies.
• Hands-on with security tooling across detection/response (SIEM), endpoint security, SaaS security, access and credential management.
• Comfort with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), automation, CI/CD, observability in cloud-native ecosystems (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Solid understanding of risk management and standards (NIST CSF, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS).

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across complex security initiatives, guiding design, implementation and operation of secure solutions.
• Partner with Enterprise Technology to embed appropriate security controls into employee-facing tech.
• Champion information protection initiatives within Enterprise Technology.
• Lead identification, assessment and prioritisation of security risks in key technologies and remediation strategies.
• Own and improve core Enterprise security platforms and controls (identity, SSO, data protection, endpoint management).
• Develop frameworks and tooling for managing security of SaaS platforms.
• Manage authentication controls to remain phishing-resistant and user friendly.
• Mentor security and software engineers, lifting security capability across the org.
• Collaborate with Security Operations, GRC and Technology leadership to align controls with priorities and risk appetite.
• Influence roadmaps so security/privacy considerations are built into long-term planning.
• Familiarity with AI/LLM security risks in enterprise environments.
• Track emerging threats and translate them into actionable improvements to REA's security posture.

Skills

Security engineering

Cloud security

Identity management

SaaS security

SIEM

EDR

Terraform

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

SIEM

EDR

Terraform

Job description

REA Group in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane or Adelaide seeks a Staff Engineer - Security to lead security design and implementation across SaaS, endpoints and AI-enabled tooling. You’ll shape secure architectures, mentor engineers, and partner with Enterprise Technology to embed controls at scale.

You will drive risk-based decisions, own core security platforms, and influence roadmaps to balance resilience, privacy and operational velocity.