Senior Security Engineer II
About the role
At Compass, our mission is to help everyone find their place in the world. Founded in 2012, we’re revolutionizing the real estate industry with our end-to-end platform that empowers residential real estate agents to deliver exceptional service to seller and buyer clients. Senior Security Engineer, Cloud Security Security @ Compass We are hands-on security engineers helping to build secure, resilient, and scalable web apps, mobile apps, and platform for the real estate industry. We work with a diverse set of teams to provide and support transparent and automated security tooling and services. We architect secure web products, perform simulated attacks, identify weaknesses, and work with teams to remediate and protect our products. You will lead our effort to build security as a service to drive safe-by-default environments and drive customer trust.
Responsibilities
- This role blends strategic partnership, hands-on engineering, infrastructure security, and automation.
- Empower engineers with safe-by-default tooling, ensuring engineering velocity by automating security requirements and building robust guardrails.
- Design and implement scalable systems and controls to secure our cloud infrastructure effectively.
- Collaborate closely with engineering and security teams to drive the deployment of critical security enhancements and control changes across our cloud infrastructure.
- Build enduring, high-trust partnerships with colleagues across the Engineering organization.
- Assist in investigating and responding to security events, then work with teams to guide and improve their security practices.
- Conduct security assessments for third-party integrations and emerging AI tools, ensuring that business productivity does not compromise data integrity or compliance.
Requirements
- Experience: At least 5+ years of experience in