Security Engineer - Build a Groundbreaking Security Practice (Remote)

Sledge; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote, work from anywhere

Flexible hours

Direct access to founding team

Real ownership over security practice

Build from ground up

Job summary

Sledge is hiring a Cybersecurity Engineer to own security across the stack, including the AWS infrastructure, the Next.js/Express web app, the Supabase/PostgreSQL data layer, and the Python/FastAPI AI system running alongside it. This role reports to Sledge's engineering team and aims to turn security meetings into a real, ongoing security practice.

Fully remote with flexible hours, you will lead vulnerability management, access control, and security monitoring while collaborating with founders

Qualifications

• Required: hands-on experience securing production infrastructure on AWS.
• Required: experience with application security, finding and fixing vulnerabilities in a real web app, not just theory.
• Comfortable working across a Node.js/TypeScript stack, a Python backend, and a PostgreSQL database.
• Comfortable owning security end to end, not just running a scanner and filing tickets.
• Comfortable moving at startup speed, without a large security team behind you.
• A clear communicator who can explain risk to non-security people, including the founders.

Responsibilities

• Own security across Sledge's AWS infrastructure, web app, database, and AI system
• Run and drive Sledge's recurring security meeting, and turn what comes out of it into real fixes
• Set up and maintain security monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Review code and infrastructure changes for security risk before they ship
• Manage access control, secrets, and permissions across environments
• Own vulnerability management: finding issues, prioritizing them, and getting them fixed
• Support Sledge's data processing agreements, privacy policy, and other security-relevant commitments with real technical practice behind them
• Lead incident response if something does go wrong

Skills

AWS security

Application security

Node.js/TypeScript

Python backend

PostgreSQL

Security communication

Vulnerability management

Incident response

Job description

Sledge is hiring a Cybersecurity Engineer to own security across the stack, including the AWS infrastructure, the Next.js/Express web app, the Supabase/PostgreSQL data layer, and the Python/FastAPI AI system running alongside it. This role reports to Sledge's engineering team and aims to turn security meetings into a real, ongoing security practice.

Fully remote with flexible hours, you will lead vulnerability management, access control, and security monitoring while collaborating with founders