Senior Engineer

Atlantic Media • Washington, DC

2d • $115,000 - $140,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Atlantic is seeking a hands-on Senior Engineer to enhance security across its applications and services. The role involves configuring, programming, and integrating advanced security systems, collaborating with engineering teams to ensure platforms are seamless, secure, and reliable, supporting the company's mission of powering thoughtful American journalism.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, with significant hands-on work in security engineering
• Strong backend programming ability and comfort with general DevOps work (CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, cloud platforms)
• Deep understanding of secure software design and modern application security practices, including zero trust principles
• Hands-on experience with IAM, WAFs, and secure data access controls
• A track record of owning security incidents end to end — triage, root cause, and durable fixes

Nice To Haves

• Experience securing agentic and LLM-driven workflows against over-access, data exfiltration, and backdoors
• Experience developing security tooling and automation
• Familiarity with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and an infrastructure-as-code tool (Terraform or similar)
• Background in consumer-facing web or mobile products
• Experience using observability and monitoring tools (Datadog, Sentry) as security and quality signals in production
• Familiarity with threat modeling and secure-by-design architecture

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering teams to architect applications with security and data protection built in from the start, including zero trust networking and secure data access controls
• Review architecture diagrams, code, and proposals to spot security issues before they ship
• Secure agentic and LLM-driven workflows to prevent over-access, data exfiltration, and backdoors
• Work with Operations to stand up and tune WAFs and IAM
• Develop tooling that makes it easier to secure our applications and company data
• Triage security incidents, identify root causes, and build solutions that prevent recurrence
• Participate in on-call rotation (outside of standard business hours) to monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve production incidents, ensuring system reliability and uptime.
• Contribute to general DevOps and backend engineering across company-wide architecture

Benefits

• The Atlantic Monthly Group LLC ("The Atlantic") is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Atlantic is committed to diversity and encourages members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, LGBTQ people, people of color, and people with disabilities. We do not discriminate against our applicants because of race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation, and pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable law.
• Job offers to work at The Atlantic are contingent upon the candidate’s successful completion of reference checks and compliance with The Atlantic's COVID-19 vaccination policy. The Atlantic requires all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, including subsequent boosters, and submit proof of vaccination status. Employees who cannot receive the vaccine because of a disability/medical contraindication or sincerely-held religious belief may request an accommodation (e.g., an exemption) to this requirement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed