Remote Security Engineer II: Incident Response & Detection

Hidden Jobs; United States; Remote; USD 125,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401(k) with match

Paid time off

Wellness allowance

Udemy access

Pet insurance

Parental leave

Free web hosting

Job summary

Hidden Jobs in the United States is seeking a remote Security Engineer II to protect a large, multi-tenant Linux hosting environment where untrusted code runs by design. This hands-on role investigates live compromises, builds detections, reviews code, and drives risk reduction across hosting, VPS, WordPress, dedicated servers, cloud, and email infrastructure.

You will lead complex security incidents, develop scalable detections, review internal and third-party code, manage credentials, patch

Qualifications

• 3–6 years in security-related roles with independent problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex security incident investigations across Linux hosts (shared/virtual/dedicated).
• Build and tune detection capabilities (malware, webshell, log-based).
• Conduct application security reviews of in-house and third-party code.
• Modernize secrets management (Vault, dynamic credentials).
• Manage vulnerability remediation and patch velocity across a heterogeneous fleet.
• Automate recurring work and collaborate with Systems/Development/Support to deploy security controls.

Skills

Security engineering

Incident response

Application security

Offensive security

Systems administration

Tools

Python

Go

Bash

Perl

Job description

Hidden Jobs in the United States is seeking a remote Security Engineer II to protect a large, multi-tenant Linux hosting environment where untrusted code runs by design. This hands-on role investigates live compromises, builds detections, reviews code, and drives risk reduction across hosting, VPS, WordPress, dedicated servers, cloud, and email infrastructure.

You will lead complex security incidents, develop scalable detections, review internal and third-party code, manage credentials, patch