Remote Backend Security Engineer - Ownership & Response

Eneba Games; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Stock Options

Learning budget

Volunteer opportunities

Work location of your choice: office,

Remote work

Job summary

Eneba is seeking a Security Engineer to join a growing security team. You will focus on both operational and strategic security work, learning Eneba's stack and how services fit together to secure systems effectively.

Day-to-day, you’ll perform hands-on security coding, incident response, threat-hunting, and policy/documentation work while collaborating with backend engineers and other departments across the company.

Qualifications

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to explain technical risk to non-technical audiences.
• Solid PHP knowledge and experience with PHP-based stacks.
• Security knowledge or demonstrated interest (bug bounties, CTFs, blogs, community).
• Background in IT, backend engineering, or related technical field.
• Self-sufficiency and ability to own tasks with limited guidance.
• Ownership mentality and strong problem-solving skills.
• Willingness to learn across multiple systems, languages, and technologies.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on coding and security implementation work, plus incident response and threat-hunting.
• Review and triage security submissions and incident reports.
• Evaluate and respond to bug bounty reports with remediation follow-through.
• Build, operate, and improve incident response and remediation processes.
• Write and maintain security policies and documentation.
• Communicate security requirements and risks clearly to non-technical departments.
• Review application monitoring and logs to catch and investigate anomalies.
• Support access governance and permission-management processes.

Skills

Strong communication

PHP knowledge

Security awareness

Backend engineering

Ownership mindset

Cross-system learning

Tools

PHP/Symfony

Golang

GraphQL

gRPC

CQRS

Microservices

Kubernetes

Helm

AWS

Terraform

Prometheus

InfluxDB

Redis

ElasticSearch

MariaDB/MySQL

Job description

Eneba is seeking a Security Engineer to join a growing security team. You will focus on both operational and strategic security work, learning Eneba's stack and how services fit together to secure systems effectively.

Day-to-day, you’ll perform hands-on security coding, incident response, threat-hunting, and policy/documentation work while collaborating with backend engineers and other departments across the company.