Security Engineer

Relay • New York, NY

19d • Remote

About The Position

As Relay scales, security and reliability deserve a dedicated owner. We're looking for a Security Engineer who will define and protect the worry-free infrastructure that millions of users depend on.

Requirements

• 3+ years operating production infrastructure on AWS
• Hands-on experience with security fundamentals including vulnerability management, access control, secrets management, and network security
• Experience in crypto/blockchain infrastructure
• Strong background in observability tooling (Datadog, PagerDuty, or similar)
• Experience defining and operating against SLOs

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading or contributing to SOC 2 or similar compliance certifications
• Background in smart contract security or wallet/key management infrastructure
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
• Prior experience as a first security/reliability hire at a startup
• Relevant certifications (AWS Security Specialty, CISSP, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Own Relay's security posture
• Lead threat modeling, vulnerability management, access controls, and dependency auditing
• Map Relay's attack surface and document gaps
• Harden CI/CD pipelines, secrets management, and least-privilege access
• Build and maintain observability
• Instrument monitoring, alerting, and dashboards that give the team real-time visibility into Relay's health
• Define and enforce SLOs by setting availability and performance targets, and drive the team to meet them
• Lead incident response
• Own the incident response process end to end: triage when things break, run postmortems, and make sure the same issue doesn't happen twice
• Drive compliance readiness
• Prepare Relay for customer security reviews and formal certifications (SOC 2, etc.)
• Embed security and reliability practices into team culture as we grow

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Equity package
• Comprehensive health benefits
• Unlimited PTO policy with encouraged minimum
• Remote-first culture with emphasis on collaboration, communication, and flexibility

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees