Security Engineer — Build Secure, Scalable Systems

People Culture Talent; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

People Culture Talent is partnering with venture-backed tech firms to hire Security Engineers who build secure products, infrastructure, and scalable organizations. The role spans product, application, cloud, and infrastructure security, focusing on engineering-led security solutions and practical risk remediation.

Ideal candidates bring strong software engineering, scripting, or automation skills and a solid grasp of security principles, threat modeling, and secure SDLC integration.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in security engineering, application security, product security, or related security discipline.
• Strong software engineering, scripting, or automation skills are essential.
• Knowledge of modern cloud, application, and infrastructure security concepts.

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

Software engineering

Scripting/Automation

Cloud security

Vulnerability assessment

Threat modeling

Job description

People Culture Talent is partnering with venture-backed tech firms to hire Security Engineers who build secure products, infrastructure, and scalable organizations. The role spans product, application, cloud, and infrastructure security, focusing on engineering-led security solutions and practical risk remediation.

Ideal candidates bring strong software engineering, scripting, or automation skills and a solid grasp of security principles, threat modeling, and secure SDLC integration.