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Next Insurance (ERGO NEXT) is a technology-led, full-stack provider of small business insurance, transforming the customer experience for entrepreneurs across the United States. Since 2016, the company has served hundreds of thousands of small business customers with fast, customized, and affordable coverage, backed by industry leaders in insurance and tech.
As a Security Engineering Tech Lead, you will shape the long-term security strategy for a fast-growing, cloud-native platform operating at scale. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with mentorship, allowing you to directly influence the technical direction of the security program while remaining deeply engaged in engineering work.
Key responsibilities include:
- Shape and execute cloud-native security strategy, serving as the technical lead for AWS, Kubernetes, and IAM architecture
- Partner with Platform Engineering to embed reusable security capabilities into the engineering platform
- Scale security posture by engineering self-service guardrails and automated controls that enable product teams to ship faster and safely
- Standardize security patterns and reference architectures to enable cross-organization scalability while reducing friction for engineering teams
- Drive secure adoption of AI-assisted development, agentic workflows, and developer productivity platforms
- Elevate team technical maturity through mentoring, design reviews, and fostering a culture of security ownership
Required qualifications: 7+ years in security engineering, cloud security, or related technical security roles; at least 2 years in a tech lead, staff-level, or mentorship capacity; strong hands-on AWS security experience across IAM, networking, workload security, logging, monitoring, and cloud-native services; strong Kubernetes and containerized environment security knowledge; experience with IaC, CI/CD security, distributed systems, identity and access control; ability to review technical designs and provide clear security guidance; fluency in Hebrew and English; proven track record of influencing stakeholders and cross-functional teams; demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams.
Preferred qualifications include experience with AI, LLM, MCP, or agentic development environments; background in security automation, internal security platforms, or developer-facing tooling; experience with threat modeling, security architecture, or secure design programs; scripting or coding experience in Python, Go, or similar languages; experience designing and building security automation or internal security platforms at scale.
