Security Engineer: Build Secure, Scalable Systems

People Culture Talent; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

People Culture Talent is recruiting Security Engineers to help secure portfolios of venture-backed technology companies, across product, infra, and cloud security domains.

We seek engineers who treat security as an engineering problem, building tooling and processes that make secure practices easier to adopt across teams and products. Join a network-focused firm that scales with purpose and culture.

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 balancing 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

Scripting & automation

Cloud security

Threat modeling

Team collaboration

Job description

People Culture Talent is recruiting Security Engineers to help secure portfolios of venture-backed technology companies, across product, infra, and cloud security domains.

We seek engineers who treat security as an engineering problem, building tooling and processes that make secure practices easier to adopt across teams and products. Join a network-focused firm that scales with purpose and culture.