Senior Security Engineer — Cloud Infra & Identity

DepthFirst; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, vision, and dental insurance

Office lunch and dinner (SF office)

Equity ownership and growth potential

Job summary

depthfirst is seeking a security engineer to own the security foundations of its infrastructure and work with product and infrastructure teams to harden the cloud environment. You will implement IAM controls, detect vulnerabilities, and build automation to make secure configurations the default as the company scales.

As one of the first security engineers, you will shape the security program, write tooling, and mature logging and incident response capabilities to support rapid growth in a

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills and deep understanding of security principles.
• Proactive mindset to identify gaps and automate security improvements.
• Track record delivering scalable security solutions across infrastructure.
• Expertise in cloud security, with IAM, networking, and authentication/authorization.
• Strong communication to explain security issues to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own security foundations of depthfirst's infrastructure and harden cloud environment.
• Improve cloud security posture across IAM, networking, and system security.
• Strengthen identity and access management across infrastructure and product teams.
• Write and maintain production tooling to prevent issues and detect drift.
• Review designs with engineers and deliver scalable security improvements.
• Mature centralized security logging and detection/response capabilities.

Skills

Security engineering

Automation & tooling

Cloud security (AWS)

IAM & authN/authZ

Vulnerability discovery & remediation

Tools

AWS

Job description

depthfirst is seeking a security engineer to own the security foundations of its infrastructure and work with product and infrastructure teams to harden the cloud environment. You will implement IAM controls, detect vulnerabilities, and build automation to make secure configurations the default as the company scales.

As one of the first security engineers, you will shape the security program, write tooling, and mature logging and incident response capabilities to support rapid growth in a