Part-Time Security Engineer - Flexible Hours & Mentorship

StartupAdvantage; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 77,000 - 102,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentor program

Flexible hours

Job summary

StartupAdvantage is seeking a Security Engineer in Durham, NC for a part-time, mid-level role. You will own deliverables and grow within a high-trust team, with formal mentoring and flexible hours.

Focus areas include fault-tolerant distributed systems, Splunk utilization, and OSCP-like risk management. You’ll contribute to scalable code and proactive memory profiling in a collaborative Durham environment.

Qualifications

• Transferable Splunk chops and ability to work on complex systems.
• Comfort owning projects from concept through delivery.
• Ability to steer technology conversations toward a decision.
• Meticulous attention to detail across every deliverable.

Responsibilities

• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging Splunk.
• Ship experiments fast and focus on what sticks.
• Write clean, scalable code for StartupAdvantage’s growing user base.
• Profile memory use and diagnose leaks in Durham nodes.
• Mentor mid-level teammates through their first on-call.
• Monitor OSCP-like error budgets to protect Durham’s capacity.
• Keep the Splunk build pipeline green and deploy-ready.
• Handoff firewall runbooks to improve on-call readiness.

Skills

Presentation Skills

Project Ownership

Decision Making

Learning Quickly

Attention to Detail

Communication

Education

OSCP exposure

Tools

Splunk

Job description

StartupAdvantage is seeking a Security Engineer in Durham, NC for a part-time, mid-level role. You will own deliverables and grow within a high-trust team, with formal mentoring and flexible hours.

Focus areas include fault-tolerant distributed systems, Splunk utilization, and OSCP-like risk management. You’ll contribute to scalable code and proactive memory profiling in a collaborative Durham environment.