[Remote] Security Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. MeridianLink provides technology solutions for the financial services industry. The Security Engineer will safeguard company and client data by managing security tooling, automation, compliance controls, vendor risk, and AWS-based infrastructure defenses. The role also supports incident response, detection improvements, and secure authentication systems.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the MeridianLink Security team to improve automation and detection initiatives for resilient solutions
- Build and enhance security tooling, automated checks, and CI/CD pipeline controls for internal tools and services
- Analyze internal metrics and alerting workflows to reduce false positives and accurately focus engineering efforts
- Develop repeatable processes and build playbooks to efficiently resolve incidents
- Participate in a weekly on-call rotation as the primary incident responder/incident manager
- Implement validated security strategies for AWS-based serverless infrastructure and authentication surfaces, including SAML single sign-on with online-banking identity providers
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field and 2-4 years of related experience or equivalent work experience
- Experience in Security Operations, security monitoring, Incident Response, and Threat Intelligence
- 3+ years of work experience as a Security Engineer or related position
- 2+ years of experience in cybersecurity technologies, focusing on areas such as vulnerability management, security monitoring, data logging, and IAM
- 1+ years' experience with AWS security services, such as WAF, GuardDuty, IAM, KMS, and CloudWatch
- 2+ years of experience in tool integrations and REST APIs, as well as TypeScript or Python experience
- Proficiency in networking technologies, network security, and network monitoring solutions
- Knowledge of security systems, including authentication and single sign-on (SAML, OIDC/OAuth), web application firewalls, and intrusion detection and notification systems
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code, such as Pulumi, SST, or Terraform, and public cloud platforms, such as AWS
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