Cloud Security Engineer

incident.io Ltd

• $135K — $160K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in security, with a focus on cloud environments.
  • Strong communication skills for delivering feedback effectively.
  • Resilience and perseverance in building security processes from the ground up.
  • Deep passion for security as a primary area of interest and expertise.
  • Proficient in leveraging AI tools to enhance security practices.

Responsibilities

  • Build and define the security function from first principles.
  • Focus primarily on cloud security initiatives.
  • Collaborate with the team to secure AI-driven features in the product.
  • Implement security measures that facilitate business operations instead of hindering them.
  • Deliver constructive feedback to engineering teams to improve security without causing friction.

Benefits

  • Market-leading private medical insurance for comprehensive health coverage.
  • Competitive paid time off policy to encourage work-life balance.
  • First Friday of every month off to promote a healthy work culture.
  • Enhanced 401k plan with significant contributions for future financial security.
  • Meaningful equity options to share in the company’s growth and success.
  • Unlimited AI spend for tools and resources for all employees.
  • Generous parental leave to support work-life changes during family growth.
  • Setup budget of $1000 and $500 yearly for personal development and skills enhancement.
Full Job Description
The role in one line

You'll build incident.io's security function from the ground up, creating a product secure enough to support some of the best engineering teams in the world when things are going wrong.

What that looks like day to day

We built a new security team from scratch this year. We're now three people, and we're looking for our final two. We're generalists at heart, but for these roles we want people who can primarily focus on cloud security.

The work is greenfield and you'll be deciding how security gets done at incident from first principles. There's very little process here today which means you can move quickly rather than fight your way through approval chains and you'll have real autonomy over how you approach the work.

We think of security as something that helps the business move, not something that slows it down. That means saying yes wherever we genuinely can, while still having the authority to block a release when something matters enough.

We're heavy adopters of AI, and this role sits right in the middle of that. You'll have an unlimited Claude token budget to speed up your own work, review, testing, threat modelling, and you'll also be responsible for securing the AI features and AI driven workflows we're shipping into the product.

Who you are
  • You're a generalist with a strong grounding in security, and real depth in cloud security specifically.
  • You communicate well, you can deliver a hard piece of feedback to an engineer and have them thank you for it
  • You've got grit, you're building this function from close to scratch, and the hard days, the scary find in production, the process that doesn't exist yet, don't put you off
  • You live and breathe security, this isn't just the day job for you, it's something you genuinely geek out on


Supporting you

We work hard and we think life outside work matters just as much. Our benefits pack is built to support both.
  • Market-leading private medical insurance. The proper kind, so you're never weighing up your health against a bill.
  • Competitive PTO. Showing up at your best requires switching off, and we make sure you have time to do that.
  • First Friday of every month off. Yes, seriously.
  • Enhanced 401k. We put real money in, because future-you deserves better than an afterthought.
  • Meaningful equity. We're rapidly scaling, and everyone who helps shape the outcome should share in it.
  • Unlimited AI spend. For everyone, not just engineers. We're all-in on AI across the company, and we expect you to be too.
  • Generous parental leave. The early days with a new baby matter more than anything we're doing here, and we want you to be present for them.
  • Two budgets that have your back. $1000 to invest in your setup, $500 a year to invest in yourself.

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