Security Engineer

Jobtailor; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a security engineer to secure the corporate environment end to end, focusing on identity management, endpoints, and SaaS security for a workforce expanding rapidly in Austin.

The role emphasizes building detection and response mechanisms across phishing, token theft, and insider risk, while engineering zero-trust access and automating security controls at scale.

Qualifications

• Hands-on security in a fast-growing company.
• Experience building detection and response for multiple attack vectors.
• Identity as the perimeter and practical implementation.

Responsibilities

• Secure the corporate environment end to end: identity, endpoints, SaaS, and email for a workforce growing 10x.
• Build detection and response for the corp attack surface, from phishing to token theft to insider risk.
• Engineer zero‑trust access: SSO, device trust, and least‑privilege provisioning at scale.
• Automate the controls so security runs as code and policy, not tickets.

Skills

Identity management

Endpoint protection

Zero-trust

Automation

Detection & response

Incident response

Tools

Okta

SIEM

SOAR

MDM

Job description

Responsibilities

• Secure the corporate environment end to end: identity, endpoints, SaaS, and email for a workforce growing 10x.
• Build detection and response for the corp attack surface, from phishing to token theft to insider risk.
• Engineer zero‑trust access: SSO, device trust, and least‑privilege provisioning that scale with hiring instead of against it.
• Automate the controls so security runs as code and policy, not tickets and exceptions.

Requirements

• You’ve secured a fast‑growing company's corp stack hands‑on: IdP, MDM, email, SaaS.
• You’ve built detections that caught real attacks, and tuned out the noise that buries teams.
• You treat identity as the perimeter and have implemented that in practice.
• You automate anything you do twice, in code, not runbooks.
• You’ve responded to live incidents and made the containment call under pressure.
• Bonus: Okta or equivalent at depth. SIEM and SOAR engineering. macOS and Windows fleet security. Insider‑risk programs.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in securing corporate environments through identity management, endpoint protection, and automated security controls. Proficient in building detection and response mechanisms for various attack vectors while implementing zero‑trust access principles.