Clera

Security Engineer

Clera
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Responsibilities

  • Lead detection and incident response from alert investigation through postmortem and follow-up engineering improvements.
  • Own the security roadmap across product, cloud infrastructure, corporate security, incident response, and compliance.
  • Secure APIs, platforms, and data systems through threat modeling, design and code reviews, authentication, authorization, and secrets management.
  • Build and operate monitoring, detection, and incident-response capabilities.
  • Own SOC 2 compliance, security controls, customer trust processes, security questionnaires, vendor reviews, policies, and audits.
  • Translate data-license requirements into controls for access, provenance, retention, deletion, isolation, and auditability.
  • Partner with engineering, legal, commercial, operations, auditors, and customers on security requirements and risk decisions.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of hands-on security engineering experience across infrastructure, detection and response, and identity domains.
  • Experience leading security incidents end-to-end, including containment, root-cause analysis, and follow-up engineering.
  • Experience implementing or operating SOC 2 or a comparable security framework and translating requirements into technical controls.
  • Hands-on offensive security experience such as bug bounty, penetration testing, or red-team work.
  • Experience setting up and operating SIEM and/or XDR tooling for proactive detection.
  • Experience with abuse and fraud detection, solo incident response, and attack surface management.
  • Experience securing AI/ML infrastructure, agent execution environments, or data platforms handling untrusted or sensitive data.
  • Experience designing data protection controls covering access, retention, deletion, isolation, and auditability.
  • Relevant certifications such as OSCP, AWS Security Specialist, OSWE, CKS, or GIAC are preferred.
  • Systems programming or low-level engineering experience is a plus.
  • Prior experience as an early or sole security hire building a security program from scratch at a fast-growing startup is a strong advantage.
  • Strong communication, judgment, prioritization, and pragmatic decision-making skills.

Benefits

  • 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision for US employees.
  • 401k and commuter benefits.
  • Unlimited 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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