Senior Security Engineer

Colossus Technologies Group; United States; Remote; USD 200,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Colossus Technologies Group is seeking a Senior Security Engineer for a remote US-based role within a high-growth, venture-backed consumer technology company. You will own a broad security program across cloud, identity, endpoints, applications, and AI security, collaborating with engineering, data, R&D, and leadership.

The role offers ownership of security initiatives, exposure to audit readiness, and opportunities to influence security across corporate IT, cloud environments, and AI workflows.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in security engineering or related roles.
• Proven programming or automation experience in professional work or relevant projects.
• Experience with Python, TypeScript, Node.js, Go, or C#.
• Strong background in at least two areas: cloud security, IAM, vulnerability management, or security operations.
• Experience with AWS or GCP.
• Ability to work independently and communicate with engineers, auditors, and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Help build and scale security practices across corporate systems, cloud, identity, endpoints, and applications.
• Administer SaaS access, onboarding/offboarding, access reviews, and device-management processes.
• Partner with engineers to identify security solutions aligned with business goals.
• Manage vulnerability remediation across endpoints and cloud/internals.
• Support security reviews for tools, systems, and initiatives.
• Improve audit readiness by automating evidence collection and monitoring controls.
• Contribute to endpoint security and corporate fleet management.
• Establish secure AI tool usage and AI-enabled workflows.
• Triage security requests, assist investigations, and drive projects from idea to implementation.
• Automate repeatable security and compliance processes to scale the function.

Skills

Security engineering

Automation

Cloud security

IAM

Incident response

Compliance

SRE

DevOps

Tools

Terraform

CDK

Google Workspace

CrowdStrike

SentinelOne

Jamf

NinjaOne

Intune

Vanta

Drata

Job description

Location: Remote within the United States

Employment Type: Full-time

Compensation: $200,000–$240,000 base salary + meaningful equity

A high-growth, venture-backed consumer technology company is hiring a Senior Security Engineer to join a lean, high-impact security team.

The company builds a connected consumer platform spanning hardware, software, AI, and data-driven experiences. It is entering a major growth phase, investing heavily in new products, research and development, AI capabilities, and international expansion.

This is an opportunity to take meaningful ownership of a broad security program at an important point in the company’s growth. The role offers exposure across corporate IT, identity and access management, cloud security, compliance, endpoint security, application security, and AI security. You will work closely with engineering, data, R&D, and business teams, as well as directly with security leadership.

What You’ll Do

• Help build, maintain, and scale security practices across corporate systems, cloud environments, identity, endpoints, applications, and internal tooling.
• Administer and improve SaaS access, employee onboarding and offboarding, access reviews, identity workflows, and device-management processes.
• Partner with engineers and internal stakeholders to identify practical security solutions that support business and product goals.
• Manage vulnerability-remediation efforts across endpoints, cloud infrastructure, and internal applications.
• Support security reviews for internal tools, systems, integrations, and new technical initiatives.
• Improve audit readiness by automating evidence collection, monitoring controls, and addressing infrastructure-level compliance findings.
• Contribute to endpoint security and corporate-fleet management, including EDR, device controls, and security monitoring.
• Help establish secure, responsible practices for using AI tools and AI-enabled workflows throughout the organization.
• Triage security requests, support incident investigations, and help drive new security engineering projects from idea through implementation.
• Automate repeatable security and compliance processes to help the security function scale efficiently.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in security engineering, cloud security, corporate/enterprise security, security operations, DevOps, SRE, application security, or a similar technical security role.
• Demonstrable programming or automation experience through professional work, technical projects, or a Computer Science-related background.
• Experience with one or more programming languages such as Python, TypeScript, Node.js, Go, or C#.
• Strong experience in at least two of the following areas: cloud security, enterprise security, identity and access management, application security, vulnerability management, security operations, incident response, or compliance.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP.
• Ability to work independently, prioritize effectively, and make practical security decisions in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with engineers, auditors, and business stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CDK.
• Experience supporting SSO, access lifecycle management, SaaS administration, device management, or endpoint-security tooling.
• Familiarity with tools such as Google Workspace, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Jamf, NinjaOne, Intune, Vanta, Drata, or similar technologies.
• Experience securing cloud workloads, managing IAM controls, supporting CI/CD environments, or working in a DevOps/SRE capacity.
• Exposure to SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, audit preparation, compliance automation, or evidence collection.
• Experience with security investigations, incident response, detection engineering, or vulnerability-management programs.
• Familiarity with AI security, AI governance, securing AI workloads, building internal AI guardrails, or automating workflows using AI tools.