Security Engineer: Build Secure, Scalable Systems

people-culture-talent; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

PCT partners with venture-backed technology companies to place Security Engineers who help build secure products, infrastructure, and organizations as they scale. You might work on security tooling, threat modeling, and integrating security across the software development lifecycle, with roles spanning product security, application security, cloud security, and incident response.

Our clients include Notion, Lyft, Modern Health, Instacart, Uber, Google, Render, and GitHub, and you’ll join a team

Qualifications

• Experience in security engineering or related discipline.
• Strong software engineering, scripting, or automation skills.
• Knowledge of cloud, application, and infrastructure security concepts.
• Ability to translate security risks into practical technical solutions.

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

Automation scripting

Cloud security

Threat modeling

Vulnerability management

Incident response

Security architecture

Engineering collaboration

Job description

PCT partners with venture-backed technology companies to place Security Engineers who help build secure products, infrastructure, and organizations as they scale. You might work on security tooling, threat modeling, and integrating security across the software development lifecycle, with roles spanning product security, application security, cloud security, and incident response.

Our clients include Notion, Lyft, Modern Health, Instacart, Uber, Google, Render, and GitHub, and you’ll join a team