Security Engineer

About the role

We are looking for a Security Engineer to join a fast‑growing, globally distributed team building an advanced PostgreSQL platform for transactional, analytical and AI‑driven workloads. The role sits at the intersection of software engineering, infrastructure and security, embedding security practices directly into products, cloud environments and developer workflows.

Key responsibilities

• Triage, validate and remediate security vulnerabilities across applications, infrastructure, cloud environments and internal systems.
• Design, develop and maintain internal and open‑source security tools, delivering production‑grade code.
• Conduct secure code reviews, threat‑modeling and security architecture reviews.
• Build and enhance security automation in CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure and engineering platforms.
• Support incident response, security investigations and compliance processes such as audits and access reviews.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to embed security best practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Investigate emerging risks, including AI‑assisted development threats, and integrate AI tools where appropriate.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of detection, monitoring and preventative security controls.

Required profile

• Proven experience in software engineering, security engineering or a hybrid role in production environments.
• Strong ability to write and maintain production‑grade code.
• Solid understanding of security fundamentals across application, infrastructure, cloud and platform domains.
• Hands‑on experience building automation or tooling that improves security posture.
• Familiarity with modern cloud‑native environments, containers, Kubernetes and distributed system architectures.
• Experience with secure development practices such as code review, threat modeling and vulnerability management.

Required skills

• Go
• Python
• Rust
• Kubernetes
• Containers
• CI/CD pipelines
• Security tooling development
• Threat modeling
• Vulnerability management