Senior Security Engineer II
$166,000–$166,000 year
On-siteChicago, Illinois, United States
Job Summary
Define cloud security standards, guardrails, and reference architectures for Infrastructure, SRE, and Product Engineering across AWS, GCP, and self-managed Kubernetes. Lead cross-functional security initiatives end to end, from scoping and stakeholder management to driving technical decisions and owning delivery. Own threat modeling as a repeatable discipline for new cloud technologies, design secure-by-default architectures, and advance detection strategy by creating high-signal SIEM rules and IR playbooks. Serve as a senior incident responder and cloud-forensics lead, optimizing tooling like CrowdStrike and Tenable while managing vulnerability workflows. Establish IaC and pipeline security standards, enforce patch management best practices, and secure large-scale distributed systems and data stores. This pure IC role focuses on technical depth and influence to shape Braze's cloud security posture across Engineering.
Required Qualifications
- Several years owning cloud security in production — on-call for it, not adjacent to it
- AWS as primary cloud, working GCP, self-managed Kubernetes
- You read and write code (Python, TF)
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