What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Security Engineer position at Velocity Global, LLC?
Velocity Global offers the most unified, tech-enabled, and customer service-driven global workforce management, ensuring smooth, reliable operations across countries, roles, and workforce types so businesses can navigate complexity with confidence, deliver strong results, and stay ahead. We help you expand your business into new markets without the complexity of setting up entities. We hire, pay, and manage your workforce across 185 countries with our AI-powered global Workforce Technology platform.
Who we are looking for :
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Security Engineer to join our growing Security Engineering team!
Can you assess and interpret data better than those around you? Are you a thought leader? Are you a great team player and love being part of a vibrant, intelligent team? If this sounds like you, come join us at Velocity Global.
This hybrid role will be based in Palo Alto, California, and in-office collaboration is required for at least three days per week. You will report to the Senior Manager, Security Engineering.
Key Responsibilities :
As a senior security engineer at Velocity Global, you will be a hands-on engineer, responsible for ensuring the security, efficiency, and continuous innovation of our platform to support our engineering teams. You're responsible to ensure applications adhering required standards, regulations and compliance requirements (eg. GDPR / HIPPA / OWASP)
- Drive the adoption of modern, cloud-first, security-first design patterns and integrate these with existing systems.
- Naturally accountable, responsible, self-motivated and self-sufficient.
- Proven ability to bring security solutions to production and operate them in cloud environments.
- Work alongside developers, technology leaders, and external partners to address security risks.
- Collaborate with internal teams to design and implement security best practices across the development lifecycle.
- Support security initiatives related to DevOps, SRE, and cloud security architectures.
- Research, evaluate, and recommend new security tools and methodologies to improve testing capabilities.
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate incident response in mission critical systems.
- Maintain and update security incident tracking tools, capturing all necessary data and documenting findings.
- Serve as a technical advisor on Application Security best practices, focusing on security, performance, and cost optimization for projects and teams.
- Help to embed security best practices within the automation process, creating a robust and secure cloud environment.
- Diagnose and troubleshoot technical issues, perform root cause analysis, and escalate complex issues when necessary.
- Monitor and optimize application performance and service quality, ensuring high standards and quick issue resolution.
- Communicate updates to project leads and escalate issues when needed, maintaining smooth and transparent communication.
Experience and Professional Qualifications :
Nice to have qualities
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Our job titles may span more than one career level. The base pay depends upon many factors, such as training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified.
Annualized Pay Range
144,000-$184,000 USD
We are dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion across our organization, embracing the rich tapestry of cultures, backgrounds, and perspectives that our global team brings together in offices around the world. Velocity Global is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to empowering individuals from all walks of life to achieve their professional goals with us, regardless of race, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, disability, sexual orientation, age, national origin, citizenship status, or genetic information. We actively seek and encourage applications from diverse candidates, including those with disabilities, and offer accommodations throughout the selection process upon request.
Velocity Global offers a range of benefits tailored to the location and type of role. A general benefits overview is below :
Please visit our career page for more information.
Salary : $144,000 - $184,000
