Lead Enterprise Security Engineer — Automation-First

Beacon Software; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Beacon Software is seeking its first dedicated security engineer to shape the enterprise security program from the ground up, including strategy, architecture, and tooling for multi-cloud environments.

This hands-on role focuses on preventing, detecting, and responding to threats across Beacon's corporate and cloud environments and its portfolio companies, with automation at the core of operations.

Qualifications

• Independent and able to set priorities across a broad surface.
• Confident presenting security to portfolio founders and engineering leads.
• Deep, hands-on security engineering across endpoint, cloud, identity, and email.
• Strong threat modeling, secure design, and IR rigor.
• Comfortable in greenfield environments and ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Own prevention, detection, and response across corporate and cloud: tune the detection stack, write detection logic, own triage, and get telemetry into the SIEM
• Own the endpoint security stack (EDR, DLP, secure browser, hardening) and the technical roadmap for security tooling.
• Lead incident response: own readiness (playbooks and tabletop exercises) and drive the response when something fires, coordinating with IT, engineering, and portfolio teams.
• Set and confirm the security standards for identity and access (MFA, SSO, SCIM lifecycle, least-privilege), and build monitoring and reporting on top.
• Run security across the portfolio: baseline audits at onboarding, ongoing monitoring, and SaaS risk at scale (SSPM, OAuth, shadow IT, drift).
• Own the email security and phishing awareness program.
• Run vendor security review for new tools.

Skills

Independent leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Hands-on security engineering

Threat modeling

Automation & tooling

Job description

Beacon Software is seeking its first dedicated security engineer to shape the enterprise security program from the ground up, including strategy, architecture, and tooling for multi-cloud environments.

This hands-on role focuses on preventing, detecting, and responding to threats across Beacon's corporate and cloud environments and its portfolio companies, with automation at the core of operations.