Clera

Security Engineer

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Responsibilities

  • Lead detection and incident response from initial alerts through investigation, postmortems, and follow-up improvements.
  • Own the security roadmap across product security, cloud infrastructure, corporate security, incident response, and compliance.
  • Secure APIs, platforms, and data systems through threat modeling, design and code reviews, authentication and authorization controls, and secrets management.
  • Build and operate monitoring, detection, and incident-response capabilities.
  • Own SOC 2 compliance and customer trust activities, including control design, security questionnaires, policy management, vendor reviews, and audits.
  • Translate data-license requirements into enforceable controls for access, provenance, use, retention, deletion, and auditability.
  • Build the security program and function from scratch in partnership with legal, commercial, engineering, and operations.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on security engineering experience across infrastructure, detection and response, identity, and related domains.
  • Experience leading security incidents end-to-end from containment through root-cause analysis and follow-up engineering work.
  • Experience implementing or operating SOC 2 or a comparable security framework and translating requirements into technical controls.
  • Experience setting up and operating SIEM and/or XDR tooling for proactive detection.
  • Experience securing AI/ML infrastructure, agent execution environments, data platforms, or systems handling untrusted or sensitive data.
  • Experience with attack surface management, abuse and fraud detection, and solo incident response.
  • Experience building a security program or function from scratch.
  • Experience working with legal teams, auditors, and customers on security questionnaires, policy management, and audit processes.
  • Strong communication, high agency, and sound judgment under uncertainty.
  • Relevant certifications such as OSCP, AWS Security Specialist, OSWE, CKS, or GIAC, or demonstrated expertise through CVEs, security tooling, or bug bounty work.
  • Offensive security experience such as bug bounty, pentesting, or red-team work and a systems programming or low-level engineering background are strong pluses.

Benefits

  • Full medical, dental, and vision coverage for US employees.
  • 401k and commuter benefits.
  • Access to leading AI productivity tools.
  • Visa sponsorship and relocation support are available for strong candidates.
  • On-site work in San Francisco, California or Singapore.

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