Senior Security Engineer — Zero-Trust & Cloud

Atlantic Media; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 115,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

The Atlantic in Washington, DC is seeking a hands-on Senior Security Engineer to help us deliver industry-leading security across our applications and services. You will configure, program, and integrate advanced security systems, working closely with engineering teams to keep our platforms secure, reliable, and scalable.

You will join a mission-driven team protecting journalism that informs the public, implementing zero-trust networks, IAM, WAFs, and data access controls while triaging

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with hands-on security engineering
• Strong backend programming ability and comfort with CI/CD and cloud platforms
• Deep understanding of secure software design and modern application security practices
• Hands-on experience with IAM, WAFs, and secure data access controls
• Track record of owning security incidents end to end — triage, root cause, durable fixes

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering teams to architect applications with security built in from the start, including zero trust networking and data access controls
• Review architecture diagrams, code, and proposals to spot security issues before they ship
• Secure agentic and LLM-driven workflows to prevent over-access and data exfiltration
• Work with Operations to stand up and tune WAFs and IAM
• Develop tooling to simplify securing applications and company data
• Triage security incidents, identify root causes, and build durable solutions
• Participate in on-call rotation to monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production incidents and maintain reliability

Skills

Security engineering

Backend programming

DevOps

Secure design

IAM

WAFs

Incident response

Tools

Terraform

Datadog

Sentry

Job description

The Atlantic in Washington, DC is seeking a hands-on Senior Security Engineer to help us deliver industry-leading security across our applications and services. You will configure, program, and integrate advanced security systems, working closely with engineering teams to keep our platforms secure, reliable, and scalable.

You will join a mission-driven team protecting journalism that informs the public, implementing zero-trust networks, IAM, WAFs, and data access controls while triaging