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Senior/Principal Security Engineer

United States, New York City 500000.00 - 700000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted May 16, 2026
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Senior/Principal Security Engineer role in New York City. Focus on traditional cybersecurity assurance work, application & product security, cloud and container security. Opportunities to contribute to identity, authentication, and authorization systems. Hybrid role (two days per month in NYC office). Total compensation $500k-$700k per year.

Job Responsibility

  • Validating that the engineering teams and systems are operating securely
  • proving (or disproving) assumptions
  • strengthening secure development practices and SDLC guardrails
  • contributing to identity, authentication, and authorization systems
  • contributing to security tooling, internal services, and paved roads
  • contributing to automation that supports engineering teams
  • on-call for certain high-value systems

Requirements

  • Critical thinking
  • questioning assumptions
  • understanding security fundamentals at a level where they can learn new domains quickly
  • application & product security
  • cloud and container security
  • running SAST, SCA, IaC scanning, and cloud security tooling
  • reviewing code, pipelines, and configurations
  • finding weaknesses in assumptions and proving where controls don’t behave as expected
  • strengthening secure development practices and SDLC guardrails
  • identity, authentication, and authorization systems
  • security tooling, internal services, and paved roads
  • automation that supports engineering teams
  • ability to stay calm, think clearly, and follow structured processes under pressure
  • mentoring and guiding others
  • experience from a more mature security environment
  • helping establish good practices and processes
  • being willing to get hands-on and handle the 'dirty work' of maturing systems
  • staying flexible across a broad remit

Nice to have

Incident Response (IR) experience

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