Aledade

Staff Security Engineer

Job Description

The Staff Security Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining security services that support our business. You will understand data and automation are important ingredients to our mission and know how to actively employ these ingredients at scale. Beyond the technical expertise, we value individuals who can partner cross-functionally across various teams, driving impactful outcomes and further securing our digital landscape.


Primary Duties
  • Lead the development, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of comprehensive security strategies and solutions.
  • Design and deploy advanced security controls to safeguards networks, systems, and applications.
  • Work across disciplines to shape our security services strategy and execution 
  • Mentor and galvanize new engineers to do their best work
  • Set and uphold the standard for security processes to support high-quality engineering

  • Minimum Qualifications
  • BS/BTech (or higher) in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity or a related field, 10 years security domain experience without degree
  • 8+ years of experience in software or security engineering within Cloud Native environments

  • Preferred KSA’s
  • Experience architecting, developing, and deploying large-scale distributed systems at scale
  • Experience with cloud technologies, e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP
  • Experience building continuous integration and continuous development (CI/CD) pipelines
  • Strong familiarity with server-side web technologies (eg: Java, Python, Scala, C#, C++, Go)
  • 4+ years of experience acting as a trusted technical decision-maker in a team setting, solving for short-term and long-term business value
  • Experience with health-tech systems, like Electronic Health Records, Clinical data, etc.

  • Domain Specific Experience
    Dev Security Ops
  • Led security architecture reviews for enterprise-scale systems including microservices architectures, data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake), and cloud-native applications, identifying and mitigating security risks before implementation.
  • Established Infrastructure Security as Code practices including automated security policy enforcement, drift detection, and infrastructure vulnerability scanning integrated into Pulumi deployment workflows
  • Established security review processes and governance frameworks with standardized security requirements, risk assessment methodologies, and security architecture decision records (ADRs) integrated into SDLC workflows
  • Developed security automation and tooling documentation including security scanner integration guides, vulnerability management procedures, and security monitoring runbooks for DevSecOps teams
  • Collaborated with platform and infrastructure teams to design secure CI/CD pipelines, container security strategies, and Kubernetes security policies with automated compliance validation and reporting

  • Physical Requirements
  • Sitting for prolonged periods of time. Extensive use of computers and keyboard. Occasional walking and lifting may be required.