Senior Security Engineer

Lead a team of security engineers

You'll draw upon your experience to guide and develop the skills of other security engineers.

Advise other engineers

• Lead threat modeling sessions
• Conduct security design reviews
• Review code and configuration changes for security concerns

Build out security improvements

• Build out security improvements on our AWS accounts
• Cover areas like authentication, authorization, threat detection, encryption, and reducing attack surface
• Build out the vision and help make it reality

Collaborate with teams

• Collaborate with Engineering, Engineering Operations, IT, and GRC teams
• Probing for vulnerabilities, assessing the risk, and advising on how to respond to them

Triage security events and respond to incidents

• Triage security events
• Respond to security incidents, first taking action to contain them and later guiding us to recover normal operations and minimize the chances of recurring threats

Develop new security processes

• Develop new security processes, procedures, runbooks, and refine existing ones
• To help Everlaw scale with its rapid growth

Find creative solutions

• Find creative ways to solve problems without saying no to innovation
• Find creative ways to improve security without blocking others

About you

• You have an interest in security and want to develop your security knowledge, skills, and abilities
• You have at least 4 years of experience working in security
• You have programming skills in at least one scripting language (like Python)
• You have a keen eye for spotting problems and figuring out how to exploit them or defend against them, and don't like to let them go unfixed
• You're able to collaborate effectively with coworkers on different teams. You can explain technical concepts without jargon, and keep security relatable
• You are willing to find creative ways to improve security without blocking others. Security is important, but it's just as important for people to be able to do their work, and we need to find the right balance and make security easy for people
• You have an understanding of effective security processes
• You are authorized to work in the United States without restrictions

Pluses

• You have previous experience with SaaS environments and distributed systems
• You have programming skills in at least one compiled language (like Java)
• You have experience with AWS, Terraform, Ansible, git, and other infrastructure, development, and operations tools

Benefits

• The expected salary range for this role is between $215,000 - $272,000
• The final offered salary will be dependent upon many factors including the candidate’s experience and skills
• The base pay range is subject to change in the future
• Equity program
• 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
• Health, dental, and vision benefits
• Flexible Spending Accounts for health and dependent care expenses
• Paid parental leave and approximately 10 days (80 hours) per year of sick leave
• Seventeen paid vacation days plus 11 federal holidays
• Membership to Modern Health to help employees prioritize mental health and wellness
• Annual allocation for Learning & Development opportunities and applicable professional membership dues
• Company-sponsored life and disability insurance
• Work in Downtown Oakland, just steps from the BART line and dozens of restaurants
• You will get a powerful Linux laptop and be able to customize your desk setup
• Bond over team lunches and out-of-the-box events
• Ranked “#1 on G2 for Ediscovery Software and Momentum” and we offer free eDiscovery resources to benefit the greater societal good with Everlaw for Good
• Pursued Truth While Finding Yours
• We help law firms, government agencies, and corporations sift through millions of documents of evidence in big lawsuits and investigations to find the proverbial smoking gun (or needle in the haystack -- pick your metaphor)
• It's a multi-billion dollar space typically dominated by service-oriented vendors, and we're coming at it with cutting-edge technology and elegant design
• We host hundreds of terabytes of data and work with all 50 state Attorneys General and hundreds of law firms on some of the most high-profile cases litigated today
• We are deeply invested in pursuing the truth, for our clients and for our employees. We know that when you’re empowered to pursue your passions, it is reflected in the work. That’s why we’re committed to the professional growth of all our team members, offering an annual learning and development stipend and regular career check-ins with managers
• We are an equal opportunity employer. We pride ourselves on having a diverse workforce and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law
• We respect the gender, gender identity and gender expression of our applicants and employees, and we honor requests for pronouns
• We use Covey as part of our hiring and/or promotional processes
• We begin using Covey Scout for Inbound on the 9th of June, 2025