Security Engineer – Cloud & AI Security

Vibes; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Disability and life insurance

Paid holidays

Flexible vacation

Commuter benefits

401(k) with match

Parental leave

Job summary

Vibes is seeking a Security Engineer to build, run, and improve controls across cloud, applications, workforce, and AI tools. You’ll work hands-on in cloud infrastructure and code, partnering with engineering, IT Support, and GRC to shape secure AI adoption.

This generalist role has ownership across vulnerability management, incident response, IAM, secure development, and AI security, reporting to the Senior Security Engineer.

Qualifications

• 3+ years cybersecurity experience at a SaaS company or equivalent
• Hands-on security engineering experience in a cloud environment, AWS preferred
• Comfort reading code and infrastructure as code (Terraform/CloudFormation; Python/Go/TypeScript)
• Practical experience with vulnerability management and incident response
• Solid understanding of IAM: least privilege, RBAC, SSO, access reviews
• Working knowledge of AI risk and its impact on security
• Strong written and verbal communication to explain risk to any audience

Responsibilities

• Engineer, operate, and improve controls protecting cloud environment (network, identity, logging, encryption, baselines)
• Improve security tooling coverage; unify projects/accounts view and close gaps
• Define guardrails and secure defaults to simplify safe engineering practices
• Run vulnerability management end-to-end: ingestion, triage, prioritization, assignment, closure
• Collaborate with remediation owners to set timelines and unblock fixes
• Write, rehearse, and maintain incident response runbooks; plan tabletop exercises
• Triage AI security, secure an agentic SDLC, review AI tools and data handling
• Explain risk clearly to engineers, executives, and auditors; support audits and SOC 2/ISO 27001

Job description

Vibes is seeking a Security Engineer to build, run, and improve controls across cloud, applications, workforce, and AI tools. You’ll work hands-on in cloud infrastructure and code, partnering with engineering, IT Support, and GRC to shape secure AI adoption.

This generalist role has ownership across vulnerability management, incident response, IAM, secure development, and AI security, reporting to the Senior Security Engineer.