Sequencing
Senior Security Engineer
Remote, US, USA · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 96 days ago
GitAWSDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDDevOpsData EngineeringCybersecurityPenetration TestingSIEMIncident ResponseComplianceEmbedded SystemsHIPAABioinformaticsResearchCommunicationBurp Suite
About the role
- As our first dedicated Senior Security Engineer, you will join a remote, global health‑tech team that works at the intersection of genomics, AI, and consumer health.
- Success in this role means being proactive, collaborative, clear in your communication, and comfortable executing in a fast-moving, startup environment while partnering across functions and time zones.
- Set up and run security monitoring, alerting, and incident response, with practical playbooks and runbooks the team can follow.
Responsibilities
- You will build security practices and your work will directly shape how the company operates and earns customer and partner trust.
- Help design and improve logging and SIEM use so the team can spot and respond to threats faster.
- Contribute to threat modeling and secure design discussions for new and existing services.
- Maintain clear, concise security documentation, including standards, guidelines, and incident procedures.
- Support vendor and third-party security assessments by reviewing findings and driving remediation with the team.
- Support security aspects of our performance tasks and assessments, including translating real-world attack methods into learnings for the team.
- Collaborate across time zones and functions to plan, prioritize, and communicate security work and trade‑offs.
- What you'll own Lead security testing for our web apps, APIs, cloud (AWS/OCI), Kubernetes, and on‑prem servers, and clearly document vulnerabilities you find.
- Build security into our CI/CD pipelines with DevOps, including code and app scanning and stronger secrets management.
- Lead the technical work needed for HIPAA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001 readiness and future audits.
Requirements
- 8+ years in security engineering, DevSecOps, or infrastructure security roles.
- Experience adding and tuning security tools in CI/CD (such as Semgrep, CodeQL, OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite).
- Experience with SIEM or log aggregation and real‑time detection and monitoring.
- Familiarity with HIPAA, SOC 2, and how to protect PHI/PII in regulated or high‑sensitivity environments.
- Experience with eCommerce and checkout security, including securing payment flows, cart and order APIs, and protecting against fraud, skimming attacks, and checkout abuse.
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Nice to have
- OSCP, OSCE, or equivalent certifications are a plus
- we value candidates with real-world offensive experience, not just institutional credentials.
- Experience with vulnerability research, responsible disclosure, or red team operations is a strong plus.
Skills
- Translate security findings into clear, prioritized tasks that engineering and DevOps teams can execute.
Benefits
- You will report to the Head of Engineering, partner closely with DevOps, bioinformatics, and developers, and help protect highly sensitive health and genomic data as we grow.
- The opportunity As our first dedicated Senior Security Engineer, you will join a remote, global health‑tech team that works at the intersection of genomics, AI, and consumer health.
Company info
- Help raise security awareness across the company by sharing best practices with engineers and partner teams.
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