Security Engineer: Build Secure, Scalable Systems

People Culture Talent; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

People Culture Talent is seeking Security Engineers to help build secure products, infrastructure, and organizations as they scale for venture-backed technology companies.

Candidates should bring experience in security engineering or related disciplines, strong software engineering or scripting skills, and a practical approach to security as an engineering problem. The role emphasizes partnering with engineering teams to embed security across the SDLC and to develop scalable security practices.

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.
• Ability to partner effectively with engineering teams rather than treating security as a separate function.

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

Software engineering

Scripting

Cloud security

Threat modeling

Vulnerability assessment

Security architecture

Team collaboration

Job description

People Culture Talent is seeking Security Engineers to help build secure products, infrastructure, and organizations as they scale for venture-backed technology companies.

Candidates should bring experience in security engineering or related disciplines, strong software engineering or scripting skills, and a practical approach to security as an engineering problem. The role emphasizes partnering with engineering teams to embed security across the SDLC and to develop scalable security practices.