Staff Cloud Security Engineer

SafetyCulture

7d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Security Engineer, you’ll shape the evolution of SafetyCulture’s cloud security foundation - automating protection, detection, and response across AWS environments serving millions of users.
You’ll partner closely with software, platform, and data engineers to uplift our security maturity and embed secure design into every layer of our platform. You’ll lead initiatives that ensure every line of code and every deployment contributes to a secure, resilient system.
About You: You’re a versatile engineer whose domain is the AWS Cloud. You understand how to architect and secure AWS-based infrastructure and have strong coding experience in Golang, NodeJS, or Python.
Security is foundational to how you build from vulnerability management and system hardening to security automation and architecture. You’re a self-starter who can take projects from idea to completion and thrive in collaborative, fast-paced environments. You bring curiosity, pragmatism, and a drive to make security scalable through elegant automation.

Requirements

• You’re a versatile engineer whose domain is the AWS Cloud.
• You understand how to architect and secure AWS-based infrastructure
• have strong coding experience in Golang, NodeJS, or Python.
• Security is foundational to how you build from vulnerability management and system hardening to security automation and architecture.
• You’re a self-starter who can take projects from idea to completion and thrive in collaborative, fast-paced environments.
• You bring curiosity, pragmatism, and a drive to make security scalable through elegant automation.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with the CrowdStrike suite of tools
• Experience securing corporate IT systems such as Okta, GSuite, Kandji & InTune
• Experience with configuration management tools like Terraform and Cloudformation
• System administration and/or Network Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Embed cloud security into CI/CD pipelines, developer tooling, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Identify and correct security misconfigurations across AWS accounts through automation and architecture improvements.
• Lead assessments of networks, systems, and applications; turning findings into action and measurable posture uplift.
• Build automated security controls, monitoring, and reporting systems (vulnerability management, logging, integrity, honeypots, etc.)
• Mentor engineers and act as a trusted security partner across squads, influencing design and implementation decisions.
• Improve observability and detection across environments, ensuring rapid response and continuous assurance.
• Present security insights and outcomes across the engineering org and leadership teams.

Benefits

• Equity with high growth potential, and a competitive salary,
• Flexible working arrangements, we encourage you to create the best work blend while working from your home and the local SafetyCulture office;
• Access to professional and personal training and development opportunities; Hackathons, Workshops, Lunch & Learns;
• We encourage involvement in the community, open source work, attending talks and events, and experimenting with new technologies.
• In-house Culinary Crew serving up daily breakfast, lunch and snacks
• Wellbeing initiatives such as subsidised fitness programs, EAP services and generous parental leave policy
• Quarterly celebrations and team events, including the annual Shiplt! global offsite
• Table tennis, board games, gym sessions, book club, and pet-friendly offices.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees