Security Engineer

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Full Time Reston, VA, US

4 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

About the Company

At Brightspot, we help content-driven organizations turn content chaos into momentum. Our flexible, AI-powered content management platform (CMS) enables teams to move faster, collaborate more effectively, and scale with confidence. Since 2008, leading enterprises have partnered with Brightspot to transform fragmented ecosystems into streamlined, high-performing operations that drive growth, strengthen governance, and deliver real business impact.

About the Role

We're looking for a hands-on Security Engineer to help protect our platform and strengthen our overall security posture. This is a highly technical, self-directed role for someone who enjoys getting into the details of infrastructure and application security, can drive projects from idea to completion with minimal oversight, and knows how to use AI tools as a force multiplier to move faster and dig deeper.

You'll split your time between hardening cloud infrastructure, investigating and resolving security issues, and partnering closely with Engineering, Platform, QA, and IT to make security a shared responsibility across the company. If you're someone who values ownership and autonomy and enjoys solving complex security challenges end-to-end, this role will give you room to make a real impact.

Responsibilities

• Drive security projects independently from scoping through completion, working across teams to see initiatives through rather than handing them off after the design phase.
• Contribute directly to the investigation of security issues, incidents, and alerts as a hands-on member of the response effort.
• Identify security issues, develop plans for resolution, and, where appropriate, contribute code through pull requests.
• Work hands-on with Cloud Security Posture Management, vulnerability management, and GRC tooling to identify risks and drive them to closure.
• Continuously evaluate and strengthen existing security tools and processes to improve our overall security maturity.
• Conduct external security assessments and operationalize the findings.
• Partner with engineering teams to securely integrate Infrastructure as Code tools, such as Terraform and Pulumi, into the development lifecycle.
• Improve alerting, monitoring, and production observability for security-relevant events.
• Collaborate closely with Engineering, Platform, QA, and IT to embed security into everyday workflows and help build a culture in which security is everyone's responsibility.
• Clearly communicate risks and proposed solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on security engineering experience within a software development environment.
• Proven experience as a hands-on security engineer, ideally in a SaaS or cloud-native environment.
• Experience securing cloud environments, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, and working within modern Dev Ops pipelines.
• Strong self-direction, with the ability to identify problems, prioritize them, and drive them to resolution with minimal oversight.
• Deep understanding of networking and network security fundamentals, including segmentation, routing, firewalls, VPNs, TLS, and secure configuration management.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform or Pulumi, and securing IaC workflows.
• Solid coding and scripting skills sufficient to investigate issues, build tooling, and contribute pull requests that directly address infrastructure vulnerabilities.
• Proven track record of identifying vulnerabilities and driving remediation through…