Security Engineer

Our customers depend on the secure and reliable operation of the DNAnexus platform to run their business.  From clinical research to large-scale multi-omics computation, our platform is essential to tackle some of the most exciting opportunities in human health.  With DNAnexus, organizations can stay a step ahead in leveraging genomics to achieve their goals.  DNAnexus brings it all together on a single secure, resilient, and  scalable platform.

Key Company Highlights

• Founded in 2009 by leading Stanford genomic scientists, headquartered in Mountain View, CA, 140+ employees.
• Generating significant revenue, global footprint, ramping rapidly; with Enterprise customers including Ancestry, Regeneron, Natera, Johns Hopkins, FDA, Myriad Genetics, St Jude among others.
• FedRAMP Moderate ATO (“Authorized-To-Operate”) platform with current certifications in ISO27001, and HITRUST.
• Engaged on a 5 year, $20M contract with the FDA to power the precisionFDA collaborative omics environment in the cloud.
• Well funded by Tier-1 investors including Blackstone Group, Foresite Capital, Google Ventures, Perceptive Advisors, Northpond Ventures and TPG Capital, among others.
• Massive, evolving market opportunity that hasn’t been adequately addressed yet.
• Passionate and proven executive leadership team with deep genomics, big data/analytics, and cloud expertise.   

The role

You will be an essential part of our Security Engineering team and a critical player within our larger Security & Technology organization. Through close collaboration with Product Management, Engineering, IT, and Detection & Response colleagues, you will help address security concerns in our codebase, code pipelines, and cloud environments. You will help threat model systems, remediate vulnerabilities, and conduct security testing to make DNAnexus products more resilient, reliable and secure. You will also have a key role in our incident response process by responding to incidents and providing control recommendations to prevent fraud on our platform. In order to be successful, a close understanding of how Software Engineering works and empathy with your colleagues will be crucial. As a security team, we strive to solve problems with an engineering mindset and with a strong understanding of the business context.

The problems you will solve:

• You will help design, build, and tune security tooling that improves security of code and CI/CD pipelines while maintaining code deployment velocity.
• You will help design, implement, and maintain scalable security controls for our cloud environments without impacting deployment speeds and platform stability.
• You will help define, implement, and enforce our AI security policies and procedures.
• You will aid our Product Managers in developing secure and resilient product designs by addressing risks you’ve identified through threat modeling.
• You will help maintain our vulnerability management, bug bounty, and penetration testing programs
• Most importantly, you’ll develop close, collaborative relationships with other technical experts in our Product, Platform Engineering, Software Engineering, IT, and Detection & Response functions.

Qualifications

The experience you will bring:

• A Bachelors of Science in computer science, cyber security, electrical engineering or a related field.
• You have a working proficiency with Python and are able to talk through examples of scripts you’ve written to solve problems.
• Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code is a plus.
• You are familiar with cloud-native infrastructure on AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI.
• You are comfortable with GitHub, the CLI, IDEs, and understand the process of writing and deploying software.
• Familiarity with the CVE system and common application security risks like the OWASP Top 10.
• Familiarity with AI LLM models, MCPs, and agentic workflows, as well as the ability to mitigate the associated risks they introduce.
• Familiarity with Agentic AI to accelerate security workflows and business outcomes.
• Strong fundamentals in software development, networking, and IT.

Personal Attributes and Values:

• A positive, highly motivated, can-do attitude paired with a high EQ, a hunger to succeed, and an eagerness to learn.
• Core to your approach is continual learning and self-development. You ask others to help with your learning and support them in their learning.
• You can extract lessons from failure and look at each project you undertake as an opportunity to improve and a fresh opportunity for success.
• A self starter that can work both independently and collaboratively across multiple workstreams.
• Flexible, nimble, and scrappy; startup mentality and willingness/ability to change direction quickly if best for the business.
• Complex problems intrigue you and you leverage creative problem solving skills as well as the ability to ignite the creativity of others to solve these problems.
• Able to earn the respect of the team on the basis of crisp execution, technical competency, and a hands-on style.
• Takes a data centric, objective approach to decision making and has the ability to put aside personal preferences, historical bias, peer pressure and political influences to arrive at decisions on a reasoned, objectively-defensible basis.
• High integrity, principles, and ethics.

Salary and Other Compensation:

The annual salary for this position is $145,000- $165,000 which includes a base and 5% bonus component. Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits:

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, short-term disability insurance, flexible paid time off, 12 weeks of paid parental leave, and national holidays paid

Additional Information

Headquartered in Mountain View, California, with over 220 team members across the United States and Europe, DNAnexus is experiencing rapid growth and market adoption. With the support of leading investors including Google Ventures and Blackstone, and trusted by hundreds of the world's biomedical leaders,  the company is at the innovative forefront with our precision health data cloud to drive scientific breakthroughs.   If you are interested in joining our team, please apply today!