Principal Cloud Security Engineer (Remote)

VulnU; United States; Remote; USD 265,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k)

Equity

Paid time off

Fertility benefit

Job summary

You will translate risk into concrete requirements, lead threat modeling, and drive secure-by-default patterns. This remote role emphasizes practical security outcomes and collaboration with Engineering, SRE, and Compliance teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software security or security engineering roles.
• Hands-on Application Security in cloud-native environments.
• Experience with FedRAMP Moderate/High and NIST 800-53 controls.

Responsibilities

• Set long-term product and cloud security direction across teams.
• Lead security reviews for multi-tenant SaaS and customer-managed products.
• Translate risk into engineering requirements and secure defaults.
• Oversee security in CI/CD, SAST, SCA, secrets, and IaC.

Skills

Security engineering

Cloud security

Threat modeling

Vulnerability management

Mentoring engineers

Automation

Communication with stakeholders

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

KMS

Containers

Kubernetes

CI/CD security

FedRAMP

Job description

You will translate risk into concrete requirements, lead threat modeling, and drive secure-by-default patterns. This remote role emphasizes practical security outcomes and collaboration with Engineering, SRE, and Compliance teams.