Security Engineer
Strider Technologies delivers strategic intelligence that helps organizations make faster, more confident decisions in an increasingly complex global environment. Using cutting-edge AI and proprietary methodologies, we transform open-source data into actionable insights that help protect technology, talent, and supply chains from nation-state risks.
Why Strider?
At Strider, security IS the mission. This role sits at the intersection of security engineering and operations. You will operate and design the systems that enable our security program to scale and protect Strider from its nation-state adversaries. This is an opportunity to shape the direction of the security engineering program. You will have meaningful influence over how we operate and design the function, where we invest, and which technical approaches and tools we adopt.
Security is embedded in our culture
Leadership and employees understand the threat landscape. You won’t spend time selling the importance of security — you’ll spend it executing.
We are part of the customer community
Strider’s customers are security professionals. You’ll use and shape our own products, providing direct feedback that drives new features and capabilities.
Work smart with kind people
A flexible hybrid schedule means you build real relationships with colleagues who reflect our values.
A company built to last
Strider operates with deliberate, sustainable discipline — a long-term mindset and a market reach that is unique for an organization of our size.
Insight into great-power competition
Daily collaboration with world-class intelligence analysts gives you a front-row seat to international security dynamics.
The Role
As a Security Engineer you will operate, design and build the systems that makes security operations possible at scale across our cloud, endpoint, and SaaS environments. You will lead evaluation of the security tooling we rely on with the goal of building a cohesive stack. Your first mission is to deliver a gap analysis on our security stack. This role includes real operational work. You will need to understand the day-to-day reality of alerts, escalations, procedures and workflows to improve them. You will develop an operational understanding of current toil enabling execution of efficiency via automation. Success requires strong judgment, initiative, and the ability to prioritize impactful work and drive projects forward without waiting for everything to be defined in advance.
Core Responsibilities
Tool Engineering & Integration
• Own the selection, deployment, configuration, and tuning of the security toolset across cloud environments, SaaS platforms, and endpoints.
• Design and implement integrations between security tools (SIEM, EDR, CSPM, SOAR, vulnerability management, identity) to eliminate alert silos and manual hand-offs.
• Build Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) pipelines for deploying and maintaining security infrastructure at scale — reproducible, version-controlled, and auditable.
• Develop automation and orchestration workflows that reduce mean-time-to-detect and mean-time-to-respond.
Monitoring Enablement & Operational Support
• Instrument and maintain automated monitoring pipelines across platforms — endpoints, cloud environments, SaaS, and network — with a goal of replacing manual review with reliable, scalable detection logic.
• Build and tune alerting and response automation (SOAR playbooks, scripted runbooks) so that the operations functions with high confidence and minimal engineering support.
• Serve as the engineering escalation point for the managed SOC: when a gap or falsepositive pattern surfaces, you fix it in the tooling, not just the ticket.
• Validate detection coverage through periodic purple-team exercises and structured gap analysis, translating findings directly into engineering work.
What You Bring
• 5+ years of hands-on experience engineering and operating security tools — not just administering them. You have deployed, integrated, and tuned tools yourself.
• Comfort balancing operational work with long-term engineering improvements: owning oncall responsibilities, triage queues, and real-time incident coordination.
• Experience leading security engineering projects end-to-end: scoping, building, operationalizing, and measuring outcomes.
• Demonstrated experience securing workloads in a major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including cloud-native security services.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language (Python strongly preferred); you write durable automation, not one-off scripts.
• Experience integrating systems via APIs, webhooks, event-driven workflows, and infrastructure-as-code
Extra Credit
• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices.
• Application security knowledge including OWASP Top 10 and secure code review.
• Startup or rapid-growth environment experience.
Who You Are
You close the loop between engineering and operations.
You don’t hand off alerts to a team and walk away. You treat every gap in coverage or noisy detection as a personal engineering problem to solve.
You automate yourself out of toil.
Your first instinct when you do something twice is to write code. Manual processes are technical debt you actively pay down.
You have strong opinions, loosely held.
You bring a clear point of view on the right way to build and run security tools — and the intellectual humility to adapt when your teammates have better ideas.
You think in systems.
You understand that individual tools are components of a detection and response system, and you design accordingly.
You communicate clearly in both directions.
You can translate complex engineering trade-offs for non-technical stakeholders and translate business risk into precise technical requirements.
Growth & Impact
This role offers deliberate room to grow beyond the core scope. As you build credibility and capability, you’ll have the opportunity to expand into adjacent security domains based on your interests and the needs of the team.
Benefits
Competitive Compensation
Company Equity Options
Flexible PTO
Wellness Reimbursement
US Holidays (Office Closed)
Paid Parental Leave
Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
401(k) Plan
Strider is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace and do not discriminate against employees or applicants based on race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We comply with all relevant employment laws in the locations where we operate. This commitment applies to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, and professional development.