Senior Security Enablement Engineer

Phorest; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Wellness days

Employee assistance

Pension

Life assurance

Income protection

Employee share purchase

Family-related leave

Learning resources

Job summary

Phorest is seeking a hands-on Security Enablement Engineer to strengthen security across a large software engineering organisation. You will build tools, practices and knowledge to help teams make safer decisions during development.

You will partner with product, platform and engineering teams to reduce risk, improve workflows and shift effort toward lasting, proactive improvements. The role may be done remotely with flexible hours and work-from-home options.

Qualifications

• Deep, practical security engineering expertise and ability to own improvements from discovery through delivery.
• Experience building or integrating developer security tools and embedding security into software delivery workflows.
• Strong communication across written, verbal and asynchronous settings.
• Ability to build trust and influence engineering teams through collaboration and sound judgement.
• Proactive stakeholder communication and comfort owning outcomes in a distributed environment.

Responsibilities

• Identify security gaps and deliver engineering improvements that reduce risk or remove friction for developers.
• Integrate security into CI/CD pipelines, cloud environments and code review workflows, establishing reusable secure-by-default patterns.
• Work with engineering leads to prioritise tooling and process changes against the organisation's actual risk profile.
• Coach teams through threat modelling, documentation and hand-on pairing so they can handle security decisions with confidence.
• Join product teams during design, architecture reviews and pre-launch work to provide practical security guidance.
• Build scalable security practices and share knowledge across teams rather than relying on one-off interventions.

Skills

Security engineering

CI/CD security

Threat modelling

Developer security tools

Communication

Job description

Role overview

Strengthen security across a large software engineering organisation by building tools, practices and knowledge that help teams make safer decisions as part of everyday development. This hands-on enablement role partners with product, platform and engineering teams to reduce risk, improve security workflows and shift effort toward lasting, proactive improvements.

Responsibilities

• Identify security gaps and deliver engineering improvements that reduce risk or remove friction for developers.
• Integrate security into CI/CD pipelines, cloud environments and code review workflows, establishing reusable secure-by-default patterns.
• Work with engineering leads to prioritise tooling and process changes against the organisation's actual risk profile.
• Coach teams through threat modelling, documentation and hand-on pairing so they can handle security decisions with confidence.
• Join product teams during design, architecture reviews and pre-launch work to provide practical security guidance.
• Build scalable security practices and share knowledge across teams rather than relying on one-off interventions.

Requirements

• Deep, practical security engineering expertise and the ability to own improvements from discovery through delivery.
• Experience building or integrating developer security tools and embedding security into software delivery workflows.
• Strong communication skills across written, verbal and asynchronous settings.
• Ability to build trust and influence engineering teams through collaboration and sound judgement.
• Proactive stakeholder communication and comfort owning outcomes in a distributed environment.

Nice to have

• Experience in payments or regulated software environments, or familiarity with PCI DSS, GDPR or HIPAA.
• Knowledge of platform or enabling-team models, offensive security, penetration testing, red teaming or bug bounty.
• Experience creating security champion or enablement programmes.

Benefits and work setup

The role may be done remotely, with flexible hours and work-from-home options. Listed benefits include private healthcare, wellness days, an employee assistance programme, pension, life assurance, income protection, employee share purchase, family-related leave, learning resources and development programmes.