Position descriptionAs a Senior Security Engineer in Austin, you will provide senior-level expertise to leadership, engineering, and Go-To-Market teams while assisting with incident response when necessary. Your primary focus will be partnering with infrastructure and product teams to implement secure-by-design architecture, practical security automation, and advanced vulnerability management.
What you will do- Secure by design: Partner with product, platform, and infrastructure engineering teams to design and implement secure solutions.
>- Security review: Review cloud,network and endpoint architectures to ensure security requirements are identified early and integrated effectively.
>- Cloud security: Help engineering teams improve security across the software development lifecycle, cloud environments, and supporting services.
>- Vulnerability management: Investigate security findings, validate risk, partner with owners on remediation plans, and help drive issues to closure.
>- Security engineering projects: Develop and implement security specific solutions that support Sonar's strategic security plan, including evaluating and introducing new tools and capabilities.
>- Data Leakage: Drive DLP efforts across the company.
>- Customer trust support: Investigate and help address customer security concerns related to Sonar products, cloud platforms, and security controls.
>- Security incidents: As needed, act as a security subject matter expert during investigations, containment, remediation, and post-incident follow-up.
>- Threat management: Review relevant threat intelligence, assess how it applies to Sonar, and recommend practical mitigations.
>- Standards and guidance: Contribute to security patterns, engineering guidance, and repeatable practices that make the secure path the easiest path for teams.
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Experience and qualifications- You can demonstrate strong hands-on experience in security engineering, cloud security, application security, or a closely related discipline.
>- You can demonstrate in-depth experience with cloud architectures, primarily AWS.
>- You can demonstrate experience reviewing architectures and embedding security requirements into engineering and operational workflows.
>- You can demonstrate experience assessing and securing modern application environments, including AI and agentic AI features.
>- You can demonstrate experience with vulnerability investigation, prioritization, and remediation management.
>- You can demonstrate practical scripting and automation experience using tools such as Python or Bash.
>- You are comfortable working across technical and non-technical stakeholders and can communicate risk and recommendations clearly.
>- Experience with SaaS environments. Wiz, CrowdStrike, and Google Workspace are a plus.
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Additional commentsThis role is based in Austin, TX. We are unable to consider candidates unwilling to be in Austin, but we are willing to relocate the right candidate.
Benefits- Flexible comprehensive employee benefit package.
- We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations. You will receive 23 days of PTO per calendar year (on a pro-rated basis depending on your employment start date), with additional time provided for sickness, life events and holidays
- .We offer an exciting 401(k) plan that has a 4% match, fully vested on day one of participation.
- Fully paid parking in the heart of downtown Austin, Texas.
- Global workforce with employees in 20+ countries representing 35+ unique nationalities.
- We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.
- Monthly catered events, and team events
