Senior Security Engineer
Later · Engineering · Senior · 18d ago
$125k – $205k
per year
Open to candidates living in United States, Canada.
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Who can apply
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Open to candidates living in United States, Canada.
“Boston, MA; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada”
- Async-first
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- Contractor / B2B
- No mention of hiring international contractors or invoicing.
- Global stipend
- No home office or equipment budget mentioned.
- Annual retreat
- No company-paid get-togethers mentioned.
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About the role
This role blends deep security expertise with hands-on software engineering to protect Later's applications, infrastructure, and corporate operations. You will partner with engineering, product, IT, and business functions to integrate security guardrails and automated tooling into daily workflows. A major focus includes maturing security controls and evidence-ready processes to maintain SOC 2 compliance while facilitating rapid product delivery.
What you'll do
- Assess and continuously improve security posture across applications, infrastructure, cloud environments, and business workflows.
- Define and implement scalable security standards and automated controls supporting SOC 2 compliance readiness.
- Build and maintain internal security tools, automation, and CI/CD security controls including vulnerability and container scanning.
- Conduct secure design reviews, threat modeling, and application security assessments for APIs and microservices.
- Strengthen security observability, alerting, logging, detection engineering, and incident response readiness across systems.
- Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, IT, Legal, and Finance to guide risk-based remediation without blocking development velocity.
What you bring
- 5-7+ years of experience as a Security Engineer or Software Engineer with a strong security focus.
- Proven experience building and operating production-quality software, automation, and internal tooling.
- Deep understanding of application security, infrastructure/cloud security, and secure CI/CD pipelines.
- Hands-on experience with vulnerability management, threat modeling, and remediation workflows.
- Familiarity with security frameworks and standards such as SOC 2, OWASP, NIST, CIS Controls, or ISO 27001.
About Later
Later is an AI-powered influencer marketing platform combining creator relationships with proprietary performance data to run high-impact campaigns. Trusted by enterprise brands like Nike, Wayfair, and Unilever, Later bridges creativity and measurable marketing performance.
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