Senior Cloud & Application Security Engineer

Simple Life App; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Simple Life App is seeking a hands-on Senior Security Engineer with a strong background in application security and cloud-native infrastructure. You will work directly with Engineering and SRE to design, implement, and improve security controls across our applications, cloud environments, and development pipelines.

This is an engineering-first role where you’ll work with code, infrastructure, and automation, rather than relying solely on security tools and processes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of security engineering or related.
• Hands-on experience in application security and cloud security.
• Experience with AWS and Kubernetes.
• Strong knowledge of web and API security.
• Ability to read/write Go or Python.
• Experience with CI/CD security and IaC.
• Familiarity with HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 27001.
• Good English communication.

Responsibilities

• Improve application security across the SDLC through threat modeling, secure design reviews, code review, and automated security testing.
• Implement and maintain security controls in AWS and Kubernetes/EKS, including IAM, network policies, secrets management, workload security, and admission control.
• Develop security automation, infrastructure-as-code policies, and reusable tooling for engineering teams.
• Investigate vulnerabilities, assess their exploitability, and work with engineering teams on remediation.
• Support technical security assessments, penetration testing, and remediation of identified findings.
• Help improve security logging, detection, and incident response capabilities.
• Implement and maintain technical controls supporting HIPAA, SOC 2, and other relevant requirements.
• Take security engineering projects from design through implementation, rollout, and ongoing improvement.

Skills

Security engineering

Application security

Cloud security

Go

Python

CI/CD security

Vulnerability management

IAM

Cloud networking

Container security

Threat modeling

Incident response

English proficiency

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Cosign

Sigstore

Syft

Istio

Job description

Simple Life App is seeking a hands-on Senior Security Engineer with a strong background in application security and cloud-native infrastructure. You will work directly with Engineering and SRE to design, implement, and improve security controls across our applications, cloud environments, and development pipelines.

This is an engineering-first role where you’ll work with code, infrastructure, and automation, rather than relying solely on security tools and processes.