Lead Security Engineer - Remote, Platform Security Leader

Raptive; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Raptive is seeking a Lead Security Engineer to guide the company’s security program end-to-end, partnering with SRE, product, and engineering to secure applications and the platform. This player/coach role combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic direction to protect systems and trust in a dynamic startup-like environment.

You will shape security strategy, drive threat modeling and reviews, and advance compliance efforts (SOC 2) while maintaining velocity. Remote U.S.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience owning significant parts of an information security program and delivering both strategic improvements and hands-on technical work.
• Broad security experience across cloud, infrastructure, application, data, identity, and corporate environments, with depth in several of those domains.
• Experience working closely with SRE, platform, and software engineering teams to build security into operational practices and delivery workflows.
• Strong technical judgment in security monitoring, vulnerability management, incident response, security architecture, and risk-based prioritization.
• A clear, credible communication style and experience presenting security strategy, risk, and delivery status to executive audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own the security program end to end: establish strategy, architecture, policies, risk management, operating cadence, and a prioritized roadmap with measurable outcomes.
• Work side by side with SRE to design, implement, and operate secure cloud and infrastructure foundations, including identity and access controls, vulnerability management, configuration assurance, logging, detection, and incident readiness.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve application and product security through secure design, threat modeling, security reviews, testing, and practical remediation guidance.
• Lead security assurance activities, including third-party risk, security awareness, audits, and compliance efforts such as SOC 2, while keeping the focus on effective controls rather than checkbox compliance.
• Coach and enable engineers, SREs, and business partners to make sound security decisions. Establish clear ownership and raise the organization’s security capability over time.
• Communicate security vision, risk, tradeoffs, progress, and tactical delivery clearly to executives and stakeholders. Translate technical findings into business impact and specific decisions or actions.
• Ensure consistency and alignment across application and platform security controls driving unified standards, shared tooling, and integrated posture outcomes for the enterprise.
• Drive shift-left integration of security into the SDLC in partnership with Engineering and Product including threat modeling and secure design reviews.
• Mature Raptive's vulnerability management and remediation orchestration practices including triage workflows, risk-based prioritization, SLA tracking, and integration with engineering workflows.
• Represent the Security Engineering function across the broader organization and influence roadmap decisions, resource allocation, and security investment priorities.

Job description

Raptive is seeking a Lead Security Engineer to guide the company’s security program end-to-end, partnering with SRE, product, and engineering to secure applications and the platform. This player/coach role combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic direction to protect systems and trust in a dynamic startup-like environment.

You will shape security strategy, drive threat modeling and reviews, and advance compliance efforts (SOC 2) while maintaining velocity. Remote U.S.