Security Engineer, Corporate Security

Intermedia Lab; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Notion is seeking a hands-on Corporate Security Engineer to own scalable security controls across identity, endpoints, SaaS, and workforce infrastructure. This role emphasizes security engineering over traditional IT support and collaborates with IT, Infrastructure, GRC, and Detection & Response.

You will strengthen identity protection, manage macOS-first endpoint security, govern AI tool usage, and drive automation with Python and Terraform while aligning with security compliance and audits.

Qualifications

• Have 5+ years of hands-on experience in corporate security at a cloud-native company.
• Working knowledge of identity providers (Okta, Entra, or Google Workspace) and the underlying protocols (SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SCIM).
• Hands-on experience operating endpoint management and detection tooling across macOS and enterprise environments.
• Write production-quality scripts and automation in Python or Bash, and have shipped Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code for security configuration.
• Familiar with SaaS security risks (OAuth governance, audit logging, SSPM) and the realities of integrating a long tail of vendors.
• Have working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure) at the security configuration level.
• Communicate clearly in writing and work effectively across IT, Engineering, Legal, People, and GRC.

Responsibilities

• Harden identity and access management stack with phishing-resistant MFA, SSO, SCIM lifecycles, and least-privilege across SaaS.
• Run endpoint security program across a macOS-first fleet with MDM, EDR, and baselines; provide coverage for Windows and ChromeOS.
• Secure AI tool usage at the endpoint with governance of LLMs, AI agents, and MCP integrations; detect risky access and data exfiltration.
• Reduce SaaS risk at scale through SSPM tooling and automation; detect risky OAuth grants and shadow IT.
• Write code to automate access reviews, onboarding/offboarding, drift detection, and audit evidence collection.
• Partner with Detection & Response to ensure telemetry for identity, endpoint, and SaaS abuse.
• Support SOC 2, ISO 27001, and customer audits as a byproduct of good engineering.
• Collaborate on investigation and response for security incidents (phishing, account compromise, lost devices, BEC).

Skills

Security experience

Identity providers

Endpoint management

Python scripting

Cloud security

SaaS security

Communication

Tools

Okta

Entra

Google Workspace

Terraform

MDM

EDR

Job description

Overview

Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together. We're building one place where your knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side, so work is faster, clearer, and less fragmented. Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion.

Who We Are

Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life. We care about craft, building things that last, and the belief that great work is still fundamentally human. Our goal isn’t to ship the next feature. Each and every team of Notinos is working to set the standard for how humans work together in the AI era. From building a business’s system of record to making and managing AI agents to automating away the busy work, we care deeply about giving our customers more time for their life’s work.

About Us

Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your life’s work. In today's world of endless apps and tabs, Notion provides one place for teams to get everything done, seamlessly connecting docs, notes, projects, calendar, and email—with AI built in to find answers and automate work. Millions of users, from individuals to large organizations like Toyota, Figma, and OpenAI, love Notion for its flexibility and choose it because it helps them save time and money.

In-person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture. We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays.

About The Role

Millions of people rely on Notion to do their most important work. Protecting that trust starts with protecting the people who build Notion: our employees, their laptops, their identities, and the SaaS apps they rely on every day.

We are looking for a hands‑on Corporate Security Engineer to own and improve the technical controls that keep our workforce and corporate environment safe. This is a security engineering role focused on building scalable controls and automation across identity, endpoints, SaaS, and workforce infrastructure, not a traditional IT support or corporate engineering role.

You’ll own and evolve core security controls, design systems and automation that scale with the company, and help make security both stronger and easier to use. You’ll partner closely with IT, Infrastructure, GRC, and Detection & Response to improve the security foundations that employees rely on every day.

What You’ll Achieve

• Harden our identity and access management stack, including Okta and Google Workspace, with phishing‑resistant MFA, strong SSO and SCIM lifecycles, and least‑privilege access across SaaS.
• Run our endpoint security program across a macOS‑first fleet, including MDM, EDR, and configuration baselines, with working coverage for Windows and ChromeOS.
• Secure AI tool usage at the endpoint, including governance of large language models, AI agents, and model context protocol (MCP) integrations; detect and prevent unauthorized or risky AI service access and data exfiltration through AI‑enabled tools.
• Reduce SaaS risk at scale through SSPM tooling and custom automation, including detection of risky OAuth grants, excessive permissions, shadow IT, and configuration drift.
• Write code (Python, Terraform) to automate access reviews, onboarding and offboarding, configuration drift detection, and audit evidence collection.
• Partner with Detection & Response to ensure corporate systems produce the telemetry needed to detect identity, endpoint, and SaaS abuse.
• Support SOC 2, ISO 27001, and customer audits as a byproduct of good engineering, not a separate workstream.
• Partner with Detection & Response on investigation and response for corporate security incidents, including phishing, account compromise, lost devices, and BEC.

Skills You Need To Bring

• Have 5+ years of hands‑on experience in corporate security, enterprise security, or IT security engineering at a cloud‑native company.
• Have working knowledge of a major identity provider (Okta, Entra, or Google Workspace) and the underlying protocols (SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SCIM).
• Have hands‑on experience operating endpoint management and detection tooling across macOS and enterprise environments.
• Write production‑quality scripts and automation in Python or Bash, and have shipped Terraform or other infrastructure‑as‑code for security configuration.
• Are familiar with SaaS security risks (OAuth governance, audit logging, SSPM) and the realities of integrating a long tail of vendors.
• Have working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure) at the security configuration level.
• Communicate clearly in writing and work effectively across IT, Engineering, Legal, People, and GRC.

Nice To Haves

• Experience at a fast‑growing tech or AI company where the security program had to outpace headcount.
• A background in IT engineering, SRE, or production engineering that transitioned into security engineering.
• Experience building internal security tooling or workflows that improved employee or developer experience.
• Contributions to the security community through open‑source tools, blog posts, or conference talks.

We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you’re a builder at heart, share our company values, and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you.

Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in San Francisco or New York City, the estimated base salary range for this role is $200,000 - $220,000 per year.

A Note on AI

You don’t need deep AI expertise for every role, but we do expect every Notino to be intellectually curious, drawn to tinkering and discovery, and excited to use AI as a real collaborator in their work. For some roles, AI fluency is a core requirement — when that’s the case, we’ll say so explicitly in the qualifications. People who thrive here don’t treat AI as a novelty. They use it to think better, and make their work easier for others to build on.

Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

This section repeats the equal opportunity statement already included above, but you may note the commitment to diverse hiring and accommodation.