Senior Cloud Security Engineer

About this role

About GitHub: GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted GitHub Copilot.
Locations: In this role you can work from Remote, United States
Overview:

GitHub is changing the way the world builds software, and we want you to help change the way we secure GitHub. We are looking for an experienced Security Engineer to evolve and advance the cloud security posture of GitHub and its ecosystem.

As a Senior Cloud Security Engineer on the Cloud Security Engineer team, you will work alongside Hubbers across all of GitHub to help drive technical direction for all things cloud security at GitHub. This position combines hands-on security engineering with cross-functional collaboration to establish secure defaults, reduce security risks, and improve the developer's experience.

Cloud Security Engineers at GitHub are self-starters, able to work autonomously in ambiguous environments, and collaborative natural problem solvers with experience automating and integrating disparate technologies. You should have strong problem-solving skills, excellent communication skills, a deep technical understanding of modern cloud and containerized security threats, the ability to influence people from customers to managers through technical solutions, and the desire to be an integral contributor to securing GitHub systems.

Responsibilities:

• Owns complex technical security initiatives and develops solutions to address identified cloud security issues, taking intended and unintended consequences into account. Operationalizes and scales a program and solution appropriately. Identifies high-priority opportunities and makes data-driven recommendations for efficiencies to improve security posture and proactively prevent attacks. Assists team ...