Senior Cloud Security Engineer

Iterable is the leading AI-powered customer engagement platform that helps leading brands like Redfin, SeatGeek, Priceline, Calm, and Box create dynamic, individualized experiences at scale. Our platform empowers organizations to activate customer data, design seamless cross-channel interactions, and optimize engagement—all with enterprise-grade security and compliance. Today, nearly 1,200 brands across 50+ countries rely on Iterable to drive growth, deepen customer relationships, and deliver joyful customer experiences.

Our success is powered by extraordinary people who bring our core values—Be an Owner, Growth Mindset, Run as One, Transparency—to life. We foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and inclusion, where ideas are valued and individuals are empowered to do their best work. With a global presence—including offices in San Francisco, Denver, London, Sydney, and Lisbon, plus remote employees worldwide—we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace.

About the role

Customers trust Iterable with sensitive information, expecting us to safeguard their data. Iterable's Security team leads a cross-functional effort across the company to ensure that all systems remain secure in support of Iterable's core values, and to provide assurance to our customers that we will be good stewards of their valued data. The Security team actively leads the effort to improve Iterable's security posture in concert with other groups as they develop or launch new features and services.

As Engineers, we believe in security through automation, assessments, technical reviews, and vulnerability evaluation. Our footprint spans across the entire company at all levels, throughout the complete development lifecycle. We aim to create a compelling, well-documented, and holistically managed security program. We are looking for individuals to join our vibrant Security Engineering team to move the current state of security to the next level. We strive to improve our cloud security capabilities and support our peers in building an amazing product through creating an environment that fosters security by design.

Responsibilities

• Review system designs and implementations, and consult with engineers across the organization to identify and/or avoid security issues through alignment with security standards and best practices; document and ensure security issues are appropriately remediated.
• Leverage subject matter expertise of systems and infrastructure to propose solutions and drive architectural improvements which address classes of security vulnerabilities.
• Develop and implement cloud and infrastructure security architecture and contribute to overall strategy and roadmap plans.
• Participate in the selection, design, development, implementation, and management of automated security testing tools, such as cloud security posture management and image vulnerability scanners.
• Implement solutions that integrate into CI pipelines to shift security as far left as possible and raise concerns early to engineering teams.
• Promote DevSecOps principles and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scanning and policy enforcement to ensure deployments via Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or similar, are secure and compliant with standards and guidelines.
• Coordinate and participate in penetration tests of our cloud services.

Requirements

• 5+ years hands-on-keyboard in Cloud Security, SRE, DevOps, DevSecOps, or Infra Engineering.
• Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes and ecosystem tools such as helm, ArgoCD.
• Production experience with AWS services, particularly AWS Organizations, AWS Identity (SSO), Identity and Access Management (IAM), Service Control Policies (SCPs), Virtual Private Clouds, Elastic Load Balancers, AWS CloudTrail, and Security Groups.
• Proficiency with Terraform.
• Experience developing custom actions or workflows in Github or Gitlab.
• Solid understanding of cloud security vulnerabilities, defense techniques, and security best practices, including AWS security practices and present-day threats.
• Proficiency in a high-level programming language, such as Python or Go.
• Familiarity with policy management tools such as OPA or Kyverno.

Bonus points

• SRE Experience.
• Scala or JVM ecosystem experience.
• Familiarity with common observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana.
• Experience with AWS EKS.
• Experience with Panther SIEM.
• Hands-on work standing up Jupyter notebook instances, using Jupyter operationally.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries, meaningful equity, & 401(k) plan.
• Medical, dental, vision, & life insurance.
• Balance Days (additional paid holidays).
• Fertility & Adoption Assistance.
• Paid Sabbatical.
• Flexible PTO.
• Monthly Employee Wellness allowance.
• Monthly Professional Development allowance.
• Pre-tax commuter benefits.
• Complete laptop workstation.

Pay

The US base salary range for this position at the start of employment is $141,000 - $221,000. Within this range, individual pay is determined by specific US work location, as well as additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, relevant education or training, and internal equity considerations. The total compensation package includes variable pay (where applicable), equity, plus a range of benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and financial.