Senior Security Engineer

Sonar • Austin, TX

4h • Onsite

About The Position

As a Senior Security Engineer in Austin, you will provide senior-level expertise to leadership, engineering, and Go-To-Market teams while assisting with incident response when necessary. Your primary focus will be partnering with infrastructure and product teams to implement secure-by-design architecture, practical security automation, and advanced vulnerability management.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience in security engineering, cloud security, application security, or a closely related discipline.
• In-depth experience with cloud architectures, primarily AWS.
• Experience reviewing architectures and embedding security requirements into engineering and operational workflows.
• Experience assessing and securing modern application environments, including AI and agentic AI features.
• Experience with vulnerability investigation, prioritization, and remediation management.
• Practical scripting and automation experience using tools such as Python or Bash.
• Comfortable working across technical and non-technical stakeholders and can communicate risk and recommendations clearly.
• Experience with SaaS environments.

Nice To Haves

• Wiz, CrowdStrike, and Google Workspace are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product, platform, and infrastructure engineering teams to design and implement secure solutions.
• Review cloud, network and endpoint architectures to ensure security requirements are identified early and integrated effectively.
• Help engineering teams improve security across the software development lifecycle, cloud environments, and supporting services.
• Investigate security findings, validate risk, partner with owners on remediation plans, and help drive issues to closure.
• Develop and implement security specific solutions that support Sonar’s strategic security plan, including evaluating and introducing new tools and capabilities.
• Drive DLP efforts across the company.
• Investigate and help address customer security concerns related to Sonar products, cloud platforms, and security controls.
• As needed, act as a security subject matter expert during investigations, containment, remediation, and post-incident follow-up.
• Review relevant threat intelligence, assess how it applies to Sonar, and recommend practical mitigations.
• Contribute to security patterns, engineering guidance, and repeatable practices that make the secure path the easiest path for teams.

Benefits

• Flexible comprehensive employee benefit package.
• Robust time-off allocations (23 days of PTO per calendar year, plus additional time for sickness, life events and holidays).
• 401(k) plan with a 4% match, fully vested on day one of participation.
• Fully paid parking in the heart of downtown Austin, Texas.
• Annual kick-off event somewhere in the world.
• Monthly catered events, and team events.

What This Job Offers

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