Description
At Braze, we're a customer engagement platform that helps brands deliver great customer experiences. We're looking for a Senior Cloud Security Engineer II to join our Security Engineering function as a senior individual contributor and technical leader for cloud security.
Responsibilities:
- Set the technical direction for cloud security, defining standards, guardrails, and reference architectures
- Lead cross-functional security initiatives end-to-end, guiding technical debates to a decision and owning the result
- Mentor and uplevel other security and platform engineers through pairing, design review, and feedback
- Own threat modeling as a discipline for new cloud technologies, services, and patterns adopted across Engineering
- Design secure-by-default cloud architectures and build practical, scalable controls across AWS, GCP, and self-managed systems
- Advance our detection strategy, designing high-signal detections and SIEM rules
- Serve as a senior incident responder and cloud-forensics lead for cloud and run-time security investigations
- Own and optimize security tooling such as CrowdStrike, Tenable, and native cloud security services
- Establish best practices for patch management, base-image hardening, and version management across containerized and VM-based environments
Requirements:
- Several years owning cloud security in production , on-call for it, not adjacent to it
- Hands-on experience with AWS as primary cloud, working GCP, self-managed Kubernetes
- Ability to read and write code (Python, TF)
What We Offer:
- Competitive compensation that may include equity
- Retirement and Employee Stock Purchase Plans
- Flexible paid time off
- Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision, life, and disability
- Family services that include fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave
- Professional development supported by formal career pathing, learning platforms, and a yearly learning stipend