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Security Engineer
| Company | Noetica |
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| Location | New York, NY, USA |
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| Salary | $155000 – $195000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- Strong proficiency in Python and JavaScript — bonus for experience building internal security tools
- 5+ years of professional application security/security engineering experience.
- Proficiency with SAST/DAST tools, secure coding practices, and security frameworks.
- Direct experience securing single-tenant infrastructure and applications.
- Strong experience designing effective security testing and continuous security validation.
- Experience conducting source code reviews and penetration testing
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to communicate risk and remediation clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- A self-starting, problem-solving approach biased towards action and scope minimization.
Responsibilities
- Build security frameworks with privacy-by-design principles as foundational elements, not afterthoughts.
- Develop secure coding standards that are practical and effective, making it easy for all engineers to contribute securely.
- Design and implement security testing automation that’s thorough, well-documented, and empowers engineering teams to identify vulnerabilities early.
- Extend and create reliable security monitoring systems that detect threats proactively and reduce the risk of security incidents.
- Simplify complex security requirements into more manageable solutions that are easier to understand and implement.
- Optimize security controls through intelligent risk assessment and efficient threat modeling based on actual attack vectors.
- Work with platform engineers to implement least-privilege access controls that protect our systems while still allowing engineers to be productive.
Preferred Qualifications
- You have experience implementing security monitoring across isolated environments.
- You have experience optimizing security controls for performance in data-intensive environments.
- You have a strong DevOps background or have worked closely with platform teams in the past.
- You have experience with security incident response exercises and planning.
- You are interested in language, law, finance, or economics.
- You thrive in a high-leverage, fast-paced environment.
