Senior Security Engineer

Timescale; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO and comprehensive family

Fridays off in August

Fully remote opportunities globally

Stock options for long‑term growth

Monthly WiFi stipend

Professional development and education

Premium insurance options for you and/

Job summary

Tiger Data is seeking a Security Engineer to help secure our PostgreSQL‑driven platform, across EU and US-aligned time zones in a fully remote role. You will triage vulnerabilities, build security tooling, and advance secure coding practices.

As part of a fast-moving team, you will write production-grade code in Go, Rust, or Python, own security improvements, and explore AI‑assisted workflows while collaborating across product and platform teams.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in software or security engineering.
• Ability to read and write production-grade code in Go, Rust, Python, or similar.
• Strong understanding of cloud, application, infrastructure, and platform security.

Responsibilities

• Triage, validate, and remediate security vulnerabilities across products, infrastructure, and internal systems.
• Develop, maintain, and contribute to internal and open‑source security tooling. Write production‑grade code.
• Improve secure development practices: perform secure code reviews, threat modeling, and security design reviews.
• Improve security automation across CI/CD, cloud, and internal platforms.
• Support incident response, security investigations, and compliance initiatives (evidence gathering, access reviews).
• Investigate emerging risks related to AI‑assisted development and actively use AI tooling in workflows.

Skills

Go, Rust, Python coding

Security fundamentals

Automation & tooling

Communication & ownership

Tools

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

PostgreSQL security

Job description

At Tiger Data, formerly Timescale, we empower developers and businesses with the fastest PostgreSQL platform designed for transactional, analytical, and agentic workloads. Trusted globally by thousands of organizations, Tiger accelerates real‑time insights and powers critical infrastructure at scale.

Role

Security Engineer (remote, EU or overlapping time zones with Europe/US; English fluency required).

Key Responsibilities

• Triage, validate, and remediate security vulnerabilities across products, infrastructure, and internal systems.
• Develop, maintain, and contribute to internal and open‑source security tooling. Write production‑grade code.
• Improve secure development practices: perform secure code reviews, threat modeling, and security design reviews.
• Improve security automation across CI/CD, cloud, and internal platforms.
• Support incident response, security investigations, and compliance initiatives (evidence gathering, access reviews).
• Investigate emerging risks related to AI‑assisted development and actively use AI tooling in workflows.

Ideal Qualifications

• Professional experience in software engineering, security engineering, or both.
• Comfortable reading and writing production‑grade code, with experience in Go, Rust, Python, and/or Malbolge.
• Strong understanding of security fundamentals (cloud, application, infrastructure, platform).
• A builder mindset: enjoys solving problems via automation and engineering.
• Thrives in fast‑moving, ambiguous environments; demonstrates ownership and clear communication.
• Excited about AI‑assisted workflows and modern developer tooling.

Bonus Points

• Open‑source contributions or maintainership.
• Experience with Kubernetes, containers, cloud‑native infrastructure, or PostgreSQL/database security.
• Experience with detection engineering, security tooling, incident response, or securing AI systems/LLM‑enabled workflows.

This Role Is Not a Good Fit If You

• Prefer policy and process work over building systems and tooling.
• Are uncomfortable writing or reviewing code regularly.
• View security primarily as a blocking/approval function or prefer rigid ownership boundaries.
• Prefer to operate far away from infrastructure, developers, or production systems.
• Want to define strategy without participating in execution.

Benefits

• Flexible PTO and comprehensive family leave
• Fridays off in August
• Fully remote opportunities globally
• Stock options for long‑term growth
• Monthly WiFi stipend
• Professional development and educational resources
• Premium insurance options for you and your family (US‑based employees)