Staff Security Engineer

Alkami Technology•Bentonville, AR

1d•$128,800 - $161,000•Remote

About The Position

The Staff Security Engineer is an advanced security engineering professional responsible for designing, implementing, and continuously evolving enterprise security technologies that protect Alkami's infrastructure, cloud environments, and business operations. The role applies broad technical expertise to solve highly complex security engineering challenges, establish scalable security capabilities, and influence technical direction across multiple engineering organizations. Operating with significant independence, the engineer partners with engineering, infrastructure, and security leaders to mature security platforms, improve operational resilience, and enable secure technology innovation through practical, enterprise-scale solutions.

Requirements

6–10 years of experience in security engineering, infrastructure security, cloud security, systems engineering, or a related information security discipline, including broad experience leading complex enterprise security engineering initiatives across multiple technology domains.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, Information Technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
Advanced enterprise security engineering and platform architecture expertise.
Expertise with endpoint security, vulnerability management, secrets management, and identity security technologies.
Cloud security engineering experience across AWS and modern infrastructure platforms.
Experience with security automation, orchestration, scripting, and systems integration.
Strong knowledge of enterprise infrastructure, networking, operating systems, and cloud technologies.
Ability to lead complex cross-functional engineering initiatives and influence technical stakeholders.
Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and architectural problem-solving skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills for technical and business audiences.
Ability to travel onsite to Alkami headquarters periodically, approximately 1–2 trips annually, for team meetings, offsites, or company events.

Nice To Haves

CISSP, CCSP, GSEC, or comparable professional security certification.
Experience supporting regulated financial services environments.
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, automation frameworks, and cloud-native technologies.
Experience evaluating and implementing emerging security platforms and engineering capabilities.
Experience leading enterprise security platform modernization initiatives.
Network security experience with CloudFlare, PaloAlto, or similar tools.
Familiarity with or interest in working with Agentic tools such as OpenAI Daybreak or similar tools to improve security.

Responsibilities

Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of enterprise security platforms by evaluating technologies, establishing engineering standards, and delivering scalable security capabilities.
Architect and optimize security infrastructure, including endpoint protection, secrets management, vulnerability management, identity security, and related enterprise security technologies.
Lead complex security engineering initiatives by identifying capability gaps, selecting technical solutions, coordinating implementation, and ensuring operational handoff to support teams.
Partner with Network Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering, and Infrastructure teams to embed security controls into enterprise architecture, operational processes, and technology platforms.
Design and implement security automation, orchestration, and engineering integrations to reduce operational overhead, improve consistency, and increase security coverage.
Lead enterprise vulnerability remediation by analyzing systemic weaknesses, coordinating cross-functional remediation, and implementing long-term engineering improvements.
Evaluate emerging security technologies for technical capabilities, operational fit, scalability, and business value, and recommend enterprise adoption strategies.
Develop enterprise engineering standards, operational procedures, and security baselines that promote consistency, resilience, and maintainability.
Provide technical leadership during complex security incidents, support investigations, perform root cause analysis, and implement engineering improvements.
Advise engineering and technology teams on secure infrastructure design, platform integrations, and security architecture decisions.
Develop security metrics and operational reporting to measure platform health, engineering effectiveness, vulnerability reduction, and security program maturity.
Mentor security engineers, share technical expertise, review engineering solutions, and promote engineering excellence.
Collaborate with Risk, Compliance, and Audit teams to demonstrate security control effectiveness and support regulatory, customer, and internal audit requirements.
Research emerging security threats, engineering practices, automation technologies, and cloud security capabilities, translating industry advancements into continuous security program improvements.