Security Engineering Lead: AI, Cloud & Incident Response

Curative; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% employer-covered medical premiums

$0 copays and $0 deductibles

Mental health support

Generous PTO policy

401(k) plan for full-time employees

Job summary

Curative is seeking a Principal Security Engineer to lead security engineering from strategy to implementation, ensuring robust security practices across infrastructure and applications.

You will work closely with diverse teams to foster secure designs, mentor engineers, and enhance security operations with AI tools. This remote position emphasizes inclusivity in a rapidly growing company focused on transforming health insurance.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in security engineering with demonstrated technical leadership.
• Hands-on SIEM experience (DataDog, ELK, or equivalent).
• Deep AWS security and IAM expertise.

Responsibilities

• Own strategy and hands-on engineering for Detection and Response platforms.
• Embed security into the SDLC: threat modeling, secure design reviews.
• Build AI-powered security tooling for anomaly detection.

Skills

Security engineering

Incident response

AWS security

Application security

AI/LLM APIs

Container security

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Tools

DataDog

ELK

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Curative is seeking a Principal Security Engineer to lead security engineering from strategy to implementation, ensuring robust security practices across infrastructure and applications.

You will work closely with diverse teams to foster secure designs, mentor engineers, and enhance security operations with AI tools. This remote position emphasizes inclusivity in a rapidly growing company focused on transforming health insurance.