Security Engineer

StartupAdvantage; Durham (NC); In loco; USD 77.000 - 102.000; Part-time

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Mentor program

Flexible hours

Descrizione del lavoro

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.

Competenze

• 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.

Mansioni

• 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.

Conoscenze

Presentation Skills

Project Ownership

Decision Making

Learning Quickly

Attention to Detail

Communication

Formazione

OSCP exposure

Strumenti

Splunk

Descrizione del lavoro

We're hiring a Security Engineer who treats latency budgets like personal grudges and OSCP like a second language. A $77,000 - $102,000 part-time role for a mid-level professional ready to own deliverables and grow within a high-trust team.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect fault-tolerant distributed systems leveraging Splunk and Continuous Learning
• Ship Presentation Skills experiments fast, kill the losers, and double down on what sticks
• Write clean, well-tested code that scales with StartupAdvantage's growing user base
• Profile Continuous Learning memory use and chase down the leaks crashing Durham nodes
• Mentor the mid-level cohort through their first real Splunk on-call at StartupAdvantage
• Watch OSCP error budgets and pump the brakes before Durham, NC burns through them
• Keep the Splunk build pipeline green so Durham deploys never wait on a red light
• Hand off Firewall Configuration runbooks so the next on-call at StartupAdvantage sleeps better

What You'll Bring

• Working knowledge of Presentation Skills alongside transferable Splunk chops
• Comfortable owning projects from concept through delivery
• Comfort steering technology conversations toward a decision
• Ability to learn new technology systems quickly and apply them effectively
• Meticulous attention to detail across every deliverable
• The communication discipline to over-share early and trim later

StartupAdvantage is the boldly-pragmatic Durham, NC company that technology insiders recommend but rarely the one that advertises. Collaboration over heroics is our default, and we'd rather win as a group than burn anyone out.

Beyond $77,000 - $102,000, StartupAdvantage invests in your growth, assigns you a mentor, and lets you flex hours across Durham, NC as you need.

Re-confirmed open this morning, the mid-level seat at StartupAdvantage stays available.