Braze

Senior Security Engineer II

Braze
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2 months ago

Base Salary

$149k - $235k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define cloud security standards, guardrails, and reference architectures for Infrastructure, SRE, and Product Engineering.
  • Set the roadmap for high-impact cloud security work and lead cross-functional initiatives from scope through delivery.
  • Mentor and uplevel security and platform engineers through pairing, design reviews, and feedback.
  • Own threat modeling, secure cloud architecture, IAM strategy, identity-provider relationships, RBAC, and least-privilege controls across AWS and GCP.
  • Design cloud-threat detections and SIEM rules, own detection coverage, and serve as a senior incident responder and cloud-forensics lead.
  • Own and optimize CrowdStrike, Tenable, native cloud security services, and the cloud vulnerability management workflow.
  • Set security standards for self-managed Kubernetes, including control planes, nodes, workload isolation, admission control, runtime security, and supply-chain security.
  • Harden Terraform-based infrastructure and CI/CD automation, and establish practices for patch management, base-image hardening, and version management.
  • Lead security for large-scale distributed systems and self-managed data stores such as MongoDB.

Requirements

  • Several years of hands-on ownership of cloud security in production, including on-call responsibility.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS as the primary cloud, working knowledge of GCP, and experience with self-managed Kubernetes.
  • Ability to read and write Python and Terraform.
  • Experience setting technical direction, owning ambiguous security problems, leading initiatives, mentoring engineers, and influencing cross-functional architecture decisions.
  • Experience with cloud security architecture, threat modeling, IAM, detection engineering, incident response, cloud forensics, vulnerability management, Kubernetes security, infrastructure security, and CI/CD supply-chain security.

Benefits

  • Compensation may include equity, with retirement and employee stock purchase plans.
  • Flexible paid time off and comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.
  • Family services including fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave.
  • Professional development through career pathing, learning platforms, and a yearly learning stipend.
  • Hybrid ways of working and a curated in-office employee experience.
  • Volunteer Week, donation matching, and Employee Resource Groups.
  • Collaborative, transparent workplace culture recognized as a Great Place to Work®.
Braze

About Braze

1,001-5,000 employees

Braze builds a customer engagement platform used by marketing teams to orchestrate cross-channel messaging across mobile, email, web, and more. The company sells its software via SaaS subscriptions with analytics, segmentation, and journey orchestration. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in New York, Braze is a public company (NASDAQ: BRZE) with global offices.

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