Assured

Staff Security Engineer

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6 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+

Base Salary

$220k - $240k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead security architecture and design reviews for applications, infrastructure, and integrations.
  • Conduct and coordinate penetration testing, threat modeling, and security reviews for critical services, features, and third-party integrations.
  • Design and implement security automation in CI/CD pipelines to enforce secure coding practices and infrastructure policies.
  • Partner with infrastructure and DevOps teams to secure AWS platforms and improve identity, network, and workload security.
  • Build security observability and detection capabilities, including security data pipelines, SIEM integrations, and threat intelligence signals.
  • Identify systemic weaknesses and design controls that defend against broad classes of attacks.
  • Support developers with secure architecture guidance, code reviews, and security enablement.
  • Lead incident response investigations and improve processes for identifying, analyzing, and mitigating security incidents.
  • Own and evolve the bug bounty program, vulnerability triage, response processes, and vulnerability management workflows.
  • Develop security standards, playbooks, and training programs for engineering teams.
  • Help define the security roadmap and prioritize initiatives that improve risk posture and operational efficiency.

Requirements

  • Deep understanding of application security, cloud security, modern threat landscapes, OWASP Top 10, and MITRE ATT&CK.
  • Strong software engineering background with production-grade coding or automation experience in Python, TypeScript, or similar.
  • Hands-on experience securing AWS cloud-native infrastructure, including IAM, networking, and containerized workloads.
  • Experience building or integrating DevSecOps pipelines with SAST, DAST, infrastructure-as-code scanning, and container security tooling.
  • Experience designing security telemetry pipelines using SIEM platforms, observability systems, or data lakes.
  • Experience with penetration testing, threat modeling, or architectural security reviews.
  • Ability to collaborate with engineering, DevOps, and product teams to drive secure design decisions.
  • Excellent communication skills for explaining complex security risks and trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Strong understanding of SaaS architectures, distributed systems, and internet-facing platforms.
  • Experience developing security frameworks aligned with CIS benchmarks, NIST, SOC2, PCI, or HIPAA requirements.
  • Experience building security detections, threat intelligence pipelines, or runtime protection mechanisms.
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, container security, and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and Ansible.

Benefits

  • Platinum medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Free life insurance, including long-term and short-term disability coverage.
  • Unlimited PTO, uncapped vacation days, and paid holidays.
  • Maternity and paternity family leave.
  • Assured contributes 3% to a 401(k), even if the employee does not contribute.
  • Remote work with lunch twice per week, a monthly phone stipend, and other home-office perks.
  • Health FSAs and HSAs.
  • Team events and offsites for the remote team.
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About Assured

201-500 employees

Assured builds an AI-driven claims intelligence platform used by insurers to ingest, evaluate, and process claims. Its products include self-service claim filing, data enrichment, fraud detection, and ML-guided decisioning, delivered as enterprise software to large carriers. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Palo Alto, the privately held company focuses on improving insurers’ claims operations and analytics.

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