ARQ

Security Engineer, Senior

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4 days ago
São Paulo, BrazilMid Level / Senior

Responsibilities

  • Drive application security initiatives including threat modeling, secure code review support, API testing, and security pipeline improvements.
  • Assess and secure AI and agentic workflows by reviewing prompts, preventing destructive actions, and controlling data exposure.
  • Build SIEM detection rules, alert pipelines, and automated response playbooks using Datadog SIEM, CrowdStrike, and Cloudflare.
  • Improve incident response readiness through playbooks, tabletop exercises, and forensic procedures.
  • Conduct cloud security assessments across AWS and Kubernetes environments.
  • Establish and operate a scalable vendor security assessment and third-party due diligence process.

Requirements

  • 4–7 years of information security experience, ideally building or significantly shaping security functions at startups or high-growth companies.
  • Hands-on experience securing cloud infrastructure using AWS and Kubernetes.
  • Familiarity with threat modeling, secure code review, CI/CD pipeline hardening, and API security testing.
  • Ability to assess and secure LLM integrations, MCP servers, and automated AI workflows using practical guardrails.
  • Working knowledge of SIEM platforms and detection engineering, including writing detection rules.
  • Experience with endpoint security tooling, EDR/XDR, identity and access management, Google Workspace, Okta or Cloudflare Access, SSO, and SCIM.
  • Experience conducting or contributing to vendor security assessments and third-party due diligence.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and benefits.
  • Stock options.
  • Discretionary performance bonus.
  • Latest tools and technology.
  • Opportunity to help build a fintech app in Latin America.
  • Hybrid office policy requiring 3–4 days per week in-office.

Tech Stack

AWSCloudflareKubernetes

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