Senior Software Engineer
College Board3 days ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$153k - $166k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate automated preventive and detective guardrails across enterprise AWS environments.
- Build enterprise-wide controls that prevent or automatically remediate high-risk cloud misconfigurations and improve protection for internet-facing systems.
- Enhance Unified Vulnerability Management workflows and automate vulnerability intake, enrichment, ticketing, prioritization, and response.
- Develop engineering solutions that improve security detection, triage, remediation velocity, and measurable risk reduction.
- Implement automated security checks and product security maturity metrics in Backstage using telemetry and Security Scorecard outputs.
- Maintain continuity of CSPM coverage and dependent integrations, deliver a replacement CSPM proof of concept, and address capability gaps with supplemental guardrails.
- Document designs and architecture, participate in code and design reviews, and contribute to engineering standards and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with extensive exposure to software engineering practices and demonstrated full-stack proficiency.
- Proficiency with JavaScript and TypeScript.
- Deep understanding of AWS, including IAM, KMS, EC2, EventBridge, ECS, Config, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, and Lambda, using CloudFormation, CDK, or Serverless Framework.
- Working knowledge of IP networking, VPNs, DNS, load balancing, and firewalling.
- Experience establishing software engineering guidelines, conducting code and design reviews, and documenting and presenting architecture artifacts.
- Ability to proactively define guardrails and operate effectively in fast-changing environments.
- Authorization to work in the United States for any employer.
- Preferred experience includes pair or mob programming, DevOps and CI/CD automation, cloud and application security, platform engineering, open-source contribution, SQL or NoSQL databases, advanced Agentic Engineering, or AIDLC.
- AWS professional-level or AWS Security Specialty certification is a plus.
Benefits
- Fully remote work; employees near College Board offices may alternatively work hybrid on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
- Full-time position.
- Hiring range is location-adjusted based on qualifications, experience, impact, and market data.
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