Security Engineer

Clay
New York, San Francisco
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 225,000 - 300,000 annuallyFunction: CybersecuritySkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving","Leadership"]

Security Engineer role focusing on building scalable security tooling and automation for Clay’s platform. You’ll work hands-on in cloud and application security, define AI-assisted security workflows, and collaborate with infrastructure and product engineering to ship secure defaults. The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership, modern automation, and applying security best practices at scale.

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5 months ago

Security Engineer

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Job Summary

Security Engineer role focusing on building scalable security tooling and automation for Clay’s platform. You’ll work hands-on in cloud and application security, define AI-assisted security workflows, and collaborate with infrastructure and product engineering to ship secure defaults. The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership, modern automation, and applying security best practices at scale.
Location: New York, San Francisco
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Cybersecurity
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build security primitives, tooling, and automation that scale with the product and engineering org
  • •Define and implement our strategy for modern security workflows: AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, automated code review, threat detection, and remediation
  • •Collaborate with Infrastructure and Product Engineering to make secure defaults the easiest path
  • •Own projects end to end: design, implementation, rollout, and measurement
  • •Define practical policies and controls for code generation tools and coding agent changes, so they can be used safely and consistently

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 225,000 - 300,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Remote WorkEquity

Key Requirements

  • •Strong software engineering fundamentals with a track record of shipping production systems
  • •Deep expertise in either cloud security or application security, with the ability to flex into the adjacent domain
  • •Ability to translate risk into concrete engineering work and ship solutions
  • •Comfort with ambiguity and building from first principles
  • •Interest in leveraging modern automation and AI to scale security operations while maintaining engineering rigor
Experience:SecurityCloud securityApplication security
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solvingLeadership
Languages:English
Tech Stack:TerraformAWSAWS ConfigAWS Security HubIAMContainer securityStatic analysisDynamic analysisPen testsBug bountyCloud security tooling

Company Brief

Clay
Provides a go-to-market development environment combining AI agents and 100+ data integrations to help growth teams source, enrich, and act on customer data for personalized outreach, CRM enrichment, and automated GTM workflows.
Industry: Enterprise Software
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2019
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