Senior Security Engineer II

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$235k

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Braze Senior Security Engineer II at Braze responsible for setting technical direction and standards for cloud security. Lead cross-team security initiatives and mentor engineers while focusing on secure architecture, detection engineering, and Kubernetes security.

Responsibilities

Set the technical direction (leadership & standards):
Define the cloud security standards, guardrails, and reference architectures that Infrastructure, SRE, and Product Engineering build on — turning point-in-time fixes into durable, org-wide patterns
Set your own objectives and roadmap for high-impact cloud security work, in partnership with Security Engineering leadership, and drive it to measurable outcomes
Lead cross-functional security initiatives end to end — scope, timeline, stakeholders, and delivery — guiding technical debates to a decision and owning the result
Mentor and uplevel other security and platform engineers through pairing, design review, and feedback; act as a force multiplier and the go-to technical resource for cloud security
Represent cloud security in architecture and design forums, translating complex attack paths and risk into clear, actionable guidance engineers will actually adopt
Secure architecture & threat modeling:
Own threat modeling as a discipline for new cloud technologies, services, and patterns adopted across Engineering — making it a repeatable, scalable practice rather than a one-off exercise
Partner with Infrastructure, SRE, and Product Engineering to design secure-by-default cloud architectures and build practical, scalable controls across AWS, GCP, and self-managed systems
Drive control-plane and IAM security strategy across AWS and GCP, including relationships with external identity providers, RBAC models, and least privilege at scale
Continually assess posture, surface systemic and emerging risk, and set the priorities that reduce it
Detection engineering, incident response & automation:

Qualification

THE FEW HARD PREREQUISITESHands-onYou read and write code (Python

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You are a senior individual contributor who leads through technical depth and influence rather than authority. You can take an ambiguous, open-ended cloud security problem, define the objective yourself, and deliver a solution that becomes the way Braze does it going forward. You translate complex cloud attack paths, IAM misconfigurations, and multi-step threat scenarios into guidance engineers adopt, and you balance strong controls with operational reality. You raise the people around you — through mentorship, review, and the standards you set — and you stay current with the cloud security landscape, tools, and threats. Above all, you can walk someone through the messy middle — what you tried, what broke, and what you'd do differently.
THE FEW HARD PREREQUISITES:
These are the genuinely pass/fail requirements:
Several years owning cloud security in production — on-call for it, not adjacent to it
Hands-on, not theoretical: AWS as primary cloud, working GCP, self-managed Kubernetes
You read and write code (Python, TF)
For candidates based in the United States, the pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $149,000 and $235,000/year with an expected On Target Earnings (OTE) between $166,000 and $261,000/year (including bonus or commission). Your exact offer may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to cash compensation, this role qualifies for a comprehensive Total Rewards package that includes equity grants of restricted stock (RSUs) so that you will own a piece of our company.

Benefits

Dental
Vision
PTO
Equity/RSU
Parental Leave

Company

Braze

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