Security Engineer: Build Secure, Scalable Systems

People Culture Talent; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

People Culture Talent (PCT) partners with venture-backed technology companies to place Security Engineers focused on securing products, infrastructure, and organization scaling. Roles span product, cloud/infrastructure security, detection and response, and security engineering across client portfolios.

We value engineers who treat security as an engineering problem and enjoy building systems that make secure practices easier to adopt.

Qualifications

• Experience in security engineering, application security, product security, infrastructure security, or a related discipline.
• Strong software engineering, scripting, or automation skills.
• Knowledge of modern cloud, application, and infrastructure security concepts.
• Experience identifying vulnerabilities and translating security risks into practical technical solutions.
• Strong understanding of security principles, threat models, and common attack vectors.
• The ability to partner effectively with engineering teams rather than treating security as a separate function.
• Strong judgment and the ability to balance security, usability, speed, and business requirements.

Responsibilities

• Identify, assess, and remediate security risks across applications, infrastructure, and internal systems.
• Design and build security tooling, automation, and controls.
• Partner with engineering teams to integrate security throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Conduct architecture reviews, threat modeling, and technical security assessments.
• Improve cloud, infrastructure, identity, access, and secrets-management practices.
• Develop monitoring, detection, vulnerability-management, and incident-response capabilities.
• Help engineering teams understand and address security vulnerabilities.
• Establish scalable security practices as products and organizations grow.
• Contribute to security architecture and longer-term security strategy.

Skills

Security engineering

Application security

Scripting

Automation

Cloud security

Threat modeling

Incident response

Job description

People Culture Talent (PCT) partners with venture-backed technology companies to place Security Engineers focused on securing products, infrastructure, and organization scaling. Roles span product, cloud/infrastructure security, detection and response, and security engineering across client portfolios.

We value engineers who treat security as an engineering problem and enjoy building systems that make secure practices easier to adopt.