Staff Security Engineer: AI-Driven Security & IR (Remote)

Ladders; United States; Remote; USD 225,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options for every employee

Quarterly performance and salary reass

Generous AI token budget

Health and dental coverage

Wellness spending accounts

Remote-friendly work environment

$2,000 annual budget for professional

20 days of vacation with a $1,000bonus

Parental leave top-up to 100% salary

Quarterly team-building offsite events

Job summary

Ladders is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to join a remote-first, US-based team. You will design defenses, build scalable security across systems, and partner with engineering to weave security into day-to-day workflows while contributing to incident response and compliance readiness.

The ideal candidate will bring broad security engineering depth, strong technical judgment, and experience using automation and AI to improve detection and response.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in security engineering or a related technical discipline.
• Hands-on experience across multiple security domains.
• Advanced hands-on experience with AI tools and automation.
• Experience in cloud environments, preferably AWS.
• Hands-on incident response and on-call experience.
• Excellent communication skills and technical judgment.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement security solutions across multiple security domains.
• Conduct threat modeling for systems and new products.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate security into workflows.
• Automate security alerts and response workflows using AI.
• Lead incident response efforts as part of the on-call rotation.
• Support compliance and regulatory initiatives.
• Mentor engineers and promote security best practices.

Skills

Security engineering experience

Cloud security (AWS)

Incident response

Automation and AI in security

On-call and IR leadership

Security governance and compliance

Communication and judgment

Tools

AWS

AI tooling

Job description

Ladders is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to join a remote-first, US-based team. You will design defenses, build scalable security across systems, and partner with engineering to weave security into day-to-day workflows while contributing to incident response and compliance readiness.

The ideal candidate will bring broad security engineering depth, strong technical judgment, and experience using automation and AI to improve detection and response.