English-Speaking Security Engineer Wanted

Jc Recruiting; United States; Remote; USD 73,000 - 123,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote (Europe)

Direct collaboration with engineering\

Hands-on, non-advisory role with real責

Job summary

JC Recruiting partners with a rapidly growing technology company seeking a Security Engineer to join the R&D team as the sole dedicated security engineer. You will own security operations end-to-end across application security, vulnerability management, governance and risk, and emerging AI security challenges.

You will work remotely from Europe, collaborate with engineering leadership, and tackle real security outcomes in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 2–3+ years hands-on security engineering experience.
• Strong application security experience, including code reviews and remediation.
• Experience conducting or coordinating security audits and penetration tests.
• Comfortable coding and working directly with Git/GitHub.
• Scripting or automation skills (Python or Bash).
• Experience in AI company or scale-up with 50+ employees.
• Knowledge of security governance, risk assessment and prioritisation.
• Able to own security issues end-to-end in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent English communication skills.
• Based in Europe with ~80% CET overlap.
• Willing to occasional evening/weekend security monitoring.
• Comfortable with adult/NSFW content.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end security operations across applications, vulnerability management, governance, and AI security.
• Review code, perform vulnerability remediation, coordinate pen tests and audits.
• Maintain security risk register and prioritise fixes by risk.
• Monitor alerts, run awareness programs, and phishing simulations.
• Manage secure onboarding/offboarding, device security and access.
• Track risks to generative AI platforms and assess third-party AI provider risks.

Skills

Security engineering

Application security

Code reviews

Vulnerability remediation

Git/GitHub

Python

Bash

Audits and pentests

AI security

Tools

Git

Python

Bash

Job description

At JC Recruiting, we are partnering with a rapidly growing technology company (with over 50 million users) worldwide that is seeking to onboard a Security Engineer to join their R&D team.

As the company’s sole dedicated Security Engineer, the successful candidate will take end-to-end ownership of security operations, covering application security, vulnerability management, governance and risk, and emerging AI security challenges. The company’s products include adult/NSFW content, so candidates must be fully comfortable working with this material.

Your Role

• Application security: review code, find and fix vulnerabilities, work with developers in Git/GitHub, and coordinate external pen tests and audits.
• Governance, risk and compliance: build and maintain the security risk register, assess exposure across systems, support audit follow-up, and prioritise fixes by risk and business impact.
• Monitoring and awareness: watch alerts and threats, run awareness programmes and phishing simulations, and provide occasional evening and weekend cover.
• IT security and access: handle secure onboarding and offboarding, device security (MDM) and access permissions, and tighten internal controls.
• AI security: track risks to generative AI platforms (prompt injection, jailbreaks, filter bypasses) and vulnerabilities in third-party AI providers.

QUALIFICATIONS / REQUIREMENTS

• 2–3+ years of hands‑on security engineering experience, with flexibility for exceptional scale‑up experience
• Strong application security experience, including code reviews and vulnerability remediation
• Proven experience conducting or coordinating security audits and penetration tests
• Comfortable coding and working directly with Git/GitHub
• Practical scripting or automation skills, ideally Python or Bash
• Previous experience within an AI company or a scale‑up with 50+ employees
• Sound understanding of security governance, risk assessment and prioritisation
• Ability to independently identify, investigate and resolve security issues, and to take end‑to‑end ownership in a fast‑paced environment
• Excellent English communication skills
• Based in Europe, with approximately 80% overlap with CET working hours
• Comfortable with occasional evening/weekend security monitoring
• Fully comfortable working with adult/NSFW content as part of daily responsibilities

BENEFITS

• Fully remote working from Europe
• Opportunity to own security for a fast‑growing AI platform with over 50 million users
• Direct collaboration with engineering leadership
• Hands‑on, non‑advisory role with real responsibility for security outcomes
• And many more company benefits.

Language:

English

Employment Type:

Remote

Requirements:

• 2–3+ years of hands‑on security engineering experience, with flexibility for exceptional scale‑up experience
• Strong application security experience, including code reviews and vulnerability remediation
• Proven experience conducting or coordinating security audits and penetration tests
• Comfortable coding and working directly with Git/GitHub
• Practical scripting or automation skills, ideally Python or Bash
• Previous experience within an AI company or a scale‑up with 50+ employees
• Sound understanding of security governance, risk assessment and prioritisation
• Ability to independently identify, investigate and resolve security issues, and to take end‑to‑end ownership in a fast‑paced environment
• Excellent English communication skills
• Based in Europe, with approximately 80% overlap with CET working hours
• Comfortable with occasional evening/weekend security monitoring
• Fully comfortable working with adult/NSFW content as part of daily responsibilities