Security Engineer

Menlo Security is focused on enabling secure connections and communications for enterprises, including Fortune 500 companies and the Department of Defense. They are seeking a Security Engineer to enhance their cloud architecture's security through automation and effective management of security tools across multi-cloud environments.

Responsibilities:

• Deploy and manage Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) tools to automatically detect and remediate misconfigurations across both providers
• Implement Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) strategies by shifting left and integrating container image scanning directly into Jenkins and GitLab pipelines
• Deploy and tune Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) tools to monitor runtime behavior and detect anomalies in both VMs and Kubernetes pods
• Build Automated Response Playbooks to automatically enrich alerts, isolate compromised resources, and dismiss low-fidelity noise without human intervention
• Manage effective permissions across complex multi-cloud IAM structures and standardize secret management workflows
• Collaborate closely with Technical Program Managers (TPMs) during software releases to enforce compliance standards and oversee vulnerability scanning. Additionally, respond to customer inquiries regarding the impact of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) on our product

Requirements:

• Multi-Cloud Fluency: Deep architectural understanding of GCP and AWS, with the ability to manage complex IAM policies, standardizing identity, and securing networking layers across both providers
• Security Automation: Proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash to write custom scripts that eliminate toil, build auto-remediation playbooks, and streamline security operations
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Experience developing secure Terraform modules and primitives for the organization to stem from, ensuring security defaults are baked into the architecture and catching misconfigurations before deployment
• Developer Enablement: Design and maintain shared CI/CD security components (SAST/SBOM/Container Scanning) that are easily adoptable by engineering teams with minimal friction
• Container Security: Proven experience securing managed (EKS, GKE) and unmanaged container workloads, with a strong emphasis on automating runtime defenses and admission controllers
• Pragmatic Mindset: The ability to operate pragmatically within a lean team, knowing how to prioritize risk based on runtime context and business impact rather than just chasing scanner outputs
• Privileged Access Management: Proven ability to implement and manage Just-In-Time access policies to replace manual ticket and eliminating standing privileges
• Federal Compliance & Citizenship: Due to the role's involvement in federal compliance activities, the candidate is required to be a US citizen
• Orchestration & Event-Driven Automation Expert: Proven experience designing and deploying fully automated security systems using AWS Step Functions or Google Cloud Workflows. You have a track record of building event-driven architectures that orchestrate complex, multi-stage security workflows such as automatically triggering vulnerability scans upon resource creation, aggregating and filtering reporting data, and routing high-fidelity, actionable alerts to Slack, Grafana, and other external platforms
• Performance-Aware Security Engineering: Experience troubleshooting and tuning security agent performance to balance deep visibility with system stability, specifically preventing CPU/Memory exhaustion in high-traffic proxy environments
• Linux Security: Understanding of Linux security primitives, specifically the use of MAC (Mandatory Access Control) like AppArmor or SELinux, DAC (Discretionary Access Control), and Linux kernel capabilities