Senior Security Engineer — AI & Automation Lead

Scan Ninja Inc; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Scan Ninja Inc. is seeking a senior security engineer to lead high-impact security work across our product and platform.

You will partner with AI, infrastructure, and product teams to build security capabilities that are reliable, scalable, and production-ready. In this role you will design and build secure services for vulnerability detection, lead threat modeling, and create automation that reduces manual work for analysts and engineers.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with both application and infrastructure security.
• Strong knowledge of security controls in AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience building or managing CI/CD pipelines with integrated security automation.
• Ability to explain technical risk clearly to engineering and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design and build secure services for vulnerability detection and remediation
• Lead threat modeling sessions and architecture reviews for new features
• Create security automation that reduces manual work for analysts and engineers
• Establish secure coding, deployment, and operational standards
• Mentor other engineers and help lead post-incident reviews

Skills

Application security

Infrastructure security

CI/CD security automation

Risk communication

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Scan Ninja Inc. is seeking a senior security engineer to lead high-impact security work across our product and platform.

You will partner with AI, infrastructure, and product teams to build security capabilities that are reliable, scalable, and production-ready. In this role you will design and build secure services for vulnerability detection, lead threat modeling, and create automation that reduces manual work for analysts and engineers.