Security Engineer 5 - Product & Application Security Remote (USA)

Pager; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 192,000 - 319,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Staff Security Engineer to enhance security for cloud-native applications. In this role, you will lead efforts to design and implement robust security controls while collaborating with diverse teams to foster a security-aware culture. Your expertise in infrastructure and application security will be vital in identifying vulnerabilities and enhancing the overall security posture. Join a forward-thinking organization that values innovation and teamwork, where your contributions will help shape the future of security and build trust with customers. This is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact in a flexible and inclusive work environment.

Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

Health Insurance

401(k) Plan

Paid Time Off

Professional Development Opportunities

Remote Work Options

Wellness Programs

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in securing cloud infrastructure and applications.
• Expertise in cloud-native security best practices and tools.
• Strong communication skills to convey complex security issues.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of security controls for SaaS applications.
• Identify vulnerabilities and recommend enhancements to security posture.
• Mentor application security engineers and support security operations.

Skills

Infrastructure Security

Cloud-Native Security

Application Security

Network Security

Threat Analysis

Scripting (Python)

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Certifications (AWS Security Specialty, CISSP)

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Chef

Ansible

Job description

Security Engineer 5 - Product & Application Security

Remote (USA)

PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a global leader in digital operations management. Half of the Fortune 500 and nearly 70% of the Fortune 100 trust PagerDuty as essential infrastructure.

Join us. At PagerDuty, you'll tackle complex problems, collaborate with kind and ambitious people, and help build a more equitable world—all in a flexible, award-winning workplace.

PagerDuty is seeking a Staff Security Engineer 5 to join our diverse, customer-focused team! As a Staff Security Engineer 5, you will bring your rich technical experience securing applications in a cloud native environment. You will be a part of an amazing team that’s intensely focused on securing our products, improving our security processes, and building the future of security at PagerDuty.

This is an exciting opportunity to build security solutions that make developers and customers happy. The ideal candidate will have a blend of experiences across large enterprise environments and small or mid-size environments and will have focused on establishing security standards, coordinating with product development teams, developing strategies for secure-by-default architectures, and corresponding process and tooling selection and implementation.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for leading, designing, implementing, and configuring security controls for SaaS applications in a cloud-based infrastructure environment.
• Lead complex projects that require in-depth knowledge across technical, solutions, and business, and collaborate across the broader engineering organization.
• Identify threats and vulnerabilities, security gaps, and recommend enhancements and changes to increase product and infrastructure security posture.
• Support security operations to provide the protection of the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of customer data and building/maintaining customer trust.
• Partner with product/engineering, corporate operations, and employees to build and maintain a security-aware culture where everyone understands and plays their part.
• Provide thought leadership on modern security operations and help lead our infrastructure security organization in creating trust through security.
• Participate in our team’s on-call rotation, triaging and addressing security issues as they arise.
• Mentor and grow application security engineers.
• Stay ahead of the latest industry trends and technologies, share contributions to the wider security engineering community, and commit to continuous learning.
• Believe security should make it easy to do the right thing.
• Expert at leading collaborative efforts involving large groups.
• Expert at building consensus within and across engineering teams.
• 7+ years of experience in infrastructure securing infrastructure, including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, including network security.
• 5+ years experience with cloud-native security experience, cloud-native based application security best practices.
• Experience with Linux operating systems, scripting languages such as Python, configuration languages like YAML, JSON and technologies such as Terraform and/or Cloudformation, configuration tools such as Chef or Ansible.
• Experience with AWS cloud security best practices, and AWS security technologies such as AWS IAM, AWS Organizations, AWS Shield, AWS GuardDuty.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• The ability to compress intricate security challenges into concise descriptions.
• The ability to solve security problems without saying "No".
• Track record of stepping up and leading successful security engineering projects.
• Past experience with application security, security testing, code reviews and identity and access management.
• Past experience with threat analysis, threat hunting, proactive security practices.
• Prior experience with Application Security, Secure SDL for cloud native services.
• Experience with containerized applications, and technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience working in a continuous delivery/continuous deployment environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications such as AWS Security Speciality, (ISC)2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), (ISC)2 CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional).

The base salary range for this position is 192,000 - 319,000 USD. This role may also be eligible for bonus, commission, equity, and/or benefits.

Our base salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range, which is subject to change based on primary work location, reflects the minimum and maximum base salary we expect to pay newly hired employees for the position. Within the range, we determine pay for an individual based on a number of factors including market location, job-related knowledge, skills/competencies and experience.

Your recruiter can share more about the specific offerings for this role, as well as the salary range for your primary work location during the hiring process.

Hesitant to apply?

We encourage you to submit your resume even if you don't meet every requirement. We value potential and consider each candidate's full professional story. Whether you're exploring a career change or taking your next step, we look forward to reviewing your application.

About PagerDuty

PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a global leader in digital operations management, enabling customers to achieve operational efficiency at scale with the PagerDuty Operations Cloud. The PagerDuty Operations Cloud combines AIOps, Automation, Customer Service Operations and Incident Management with a powerful generative AI assistant to create a flexible, resilient and scalable platform to increase innovation velocity, grow revenue, reduce cost, and mitigate the risk of operational failure. Half of the Fortune 500 and nearly 70% of the Fortune 100 rely on PagerDuty as essential infrastructure for the modern enterprise.

PagerDuty is Great Place to Work-certified, a Fortune Best Workplace for Millennials, a Fortune Best Medium Workplace, a Fortune Best Workplace in Technology, and a top rated product on TrustRadius and G2.

PagerDuty is committed to creating a diverse environment and is an equal opportunity employer. PagerDuty does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, parental status, veteran status, or disability status.

PagerDuty is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application process. Should you require accommodation, please email [e-mail] and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs.