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Salary: USD 75,000 - 90,000 / annual
Kiteworks is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join its global security and compliance team. The company provides secure communication and collaboration products, making security and compliance core to its mission. You will report directly to the Global IT CISO and work independently while leading team projects across multiple priorities.
The role centers on cloud security within a large AWS environment hosting single-tenant and multi-tenant products. You will lead vulnerability management, security misconfiguration detection, logging, and incident detection. Additional responsibilities include IT security recommendations, incident response, audit support, and security reviews of internal IT projects including AI applications.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead cloud security initiatives and maintain Orca Security implementation
- Manage vulnerability and security misconfiguration detection and prevention
- Implement threat prevention, detection, and response mechanisms
- Improve SIEM capabilities and assist with security incidents
- Conduct security reviews on new technologies, including AI projects
- Share technical risk insights with leadership
- Advise CloudOps and internal IT teams on security best practices
- Increase security awareness across the organization
Kiteworks values execution, transparency, and integrity. The company offers competitive total rewards including equity, comprehensive healthcare, 401(k) matching, unlimited PTO, and family benefits.
Requirements:
- 5+ years as a security engineer
- Blue team experience
- Cloud infrastructure experience with AWS and containers
- AWS security best practices and products (GuardDuty, Security Hub, CloudTrail)
- Vulnerability management experience
- Orca Security experience
- Threat management and intrusion detection experience
- SIEM product experience
- DevOps or DevSecOps experience
- Terraform and scripting skills
- Affinity with AI and related security challenges
- Self-starter mentality with strong stakeholder engagement
- Teamwork and creative problem-solving abilities
- Professional English proficiency
- Ethical hacking experience is a plus
- U.S. work authorization required (no visa sponsorship)
- Ability to pass Kiteworks background check and security screening requirements
