Security Engineer — Vulnerability Management & Automation

livekit.com; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity package

Health, dental, and vision

Flexible vacation policy

Open source collaboration

Job summary

LiveKit is hiring a Security Engineer to build and run our vulnerability management and security operations program. You will own this program end to end from your first week, shaping a growing Trust team that covers security, IT and compliance.

You’ll deploy scanning tooling, triage findings, automate workflows, and build dashboards used by engineering and leadership to drive timely remediation and maintain strong security postures as we scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in security engineering, security operations or software engineering with focus on security.
• Hands-on experience building or running a vulnerability management program or security tooling (SCA, container, cloud or host scanning).
• Engineering-first triage/remediation approach to fixes.

Responsibilities

• Select, deploy and operate scanning tooling across production assets.
• Run vulnerability management end-to-end: triage, severity, owner assignment, remediation SLAs and reporting.
• Build engineering-first triage/remediation workflows and automate routing/follow-up.
• Build remediation dashboard for engineering and leadership.
• Automate collection of vulnerability management evidence for compliance in partnership with Compliance.
• Build automation and agentic tooling to reduce manual security operations work and scale with engineering growth.

Skills

Security engineering

Security operations

Scripting (Go/Python)

Terraform / IaC

Automation

Vulnerability triage

Tools

Terraform

Go

Python

SCA tooling

Job description

LiveKit is hiring a Security Engineer to build and run our vulnerability management and security operations program. You will own this program end to end from your first week, shaping a growing Trust team that covers security, IT and compliance.

You’ll deploy scanning tooling, triage findings, automate workflows, and build dashboards used by engineering and leadership to drive timely remediation and maintain strong security postures as we scale.