Security Engineer

About this role

Clay is seeking senior or staff-level Security Engineers to build a modern security organization from the ground up. You'll write production code for security tooling and detection systems while leveraging AI to scale security operations across a rapidly growing platform serving thousands of enterprise customers.

What you'll do

• Design and implement security tooling, detection systems, and remediation pipelines
• Secure cloud infrastructure including IAM, network policies, container security, and secrets management
• Define AI-assisted vulnerability discovery and automated code review strategies
• Collaborate with Infrastructure and Product teams to embed secure defaults into workflows
• Own end-to-end security projects from design through implementation and measurement
• Establish least-privilege access patterns across services and users

What they're looking for

• Software engineering fundamentals
• Cloud security (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Application security
• Infrastructure security and IAM
• Container security
• Threat detection and incident response
• Automation and CI/CD pipeline security
• AI/ML integration for security

Benefits

• Work with world-class coaches specializing in creativity and management
• Access to free coaching and professional development
• Unique culture that celebrates diverse interests and backgrounds
• Opportunity to shape security strategy at a fast-growing $5B company
• Based in New York location