Senior Security Engineer at Aptible

About Aptible

Large language models are transforming software engineering — developers can now go from idea to code faster than ever. But that just shifts complexity downstream: deployment, observability, cost, security, reliability — all of that has to scale too, and LLMs don't yet solve the problem.

That's where Aptible comes in. Since 2014, our cloud delivery platform has been automating security, compliance and reliability for engineering teams whose apps handle the most sensitive data, in the most highly regulated industries.

The need for a platform like Aptible has never been greater. If you're passionate about cloud infrastructure and ensuring DevOps evolves to meet the pressure of AI-assisted development — and you're excited to join a small and highly talented team — we’d love to hear from you.

NEW! Aptible is part of Opti9 Technologies, a cloud solutions provider specializing in managed cloud, security, disaster recovery, and compliance. Joining forces with Opti9 gives Aptible the resources to invest more aggressively in the platform — expanding what we can deliver to the engineering teams who depend on it.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We see great value in bringing together a team with different perspectives, educational backgrounds, and life experiences, and we prioritize diversity within our team. We encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply.

About This Role

Overview

In this role, you'll lead on projects that improve defense and hardening for a platform that regulated companies build their businesses on. This is a hand-on engineering role where you'll architect and build secure-by-default infrastructure, run our vulnerability management and pentesting programs, and lead incident response when things go wrong.

This role reports to the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), but will work day-to-day as a member of our Platform Engineering team, and in close collaboration all engineers at Aptible.

What You'll Do

Engineering

Architect and ship projects that make a meaningful improvements to our security posture and the security posture of our customers. These improvements span the full stack, from AWS and Docker to CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Ruby, Go, Python, and TypeScript.

Leverage cutting-edge AI models and third-party tools, or build your own from scratch, to level up our security game.

Own our vulnerability management and pentesting programs end to end, finding the best ways to automate vulnerability detection and mitigation.

Join the on-call rotation as a first responder for security events, and ensure we mitigate with lasting fixes so the same issue never wakes anyone up twice.

What We're Looking For

General Experience

5+ years of experience in engineering, with a track record of owning security-critical systems in production.

Hands on experience working on projects related to security and/or compliance. Experience with HITRUST is a plus.

You communicate extremely well. You favor communication that is clear, concise, and proactive.

Prior experience working on developer tools or platform engineering experience is a plus.

Technical Expertise

You have strong engineering fundamentals and coding ability, with comfort working across the full stack on a large distributed system.

You're a thoughtful developer in at least one mainstream language, are comfortable picking up new languages or working in unfamiliar codebases.

You have hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure security (AWS strongly preferred).

You have experience leading or heavily participating in incident response.

Organizational Strength

You're organized enough to run the technical portion of a compliance recertification as a project - coordinating with other engineers to collect and submit evidence by hard deadlines - without that becoming your whole job.

You don't let ambiguity or bumps in the road stop you. You can identify what's blocking you, and collaborate with other team members, sometimes cross-functionally, to get unblocked.