As a Senior Security Engineer at First Resonance, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing our overall security posture. Joining the core Engineering team, you will contribute significantly to our reputation and core value of being highly secure while building robust software solutions. This role involves close collaboration with Engineering and IT teams to shift left in our security mindset within the software development life cycle.

Are you passionate about innovating in the fields of eVTOLs, rockets, robots, and autonomous vehicles? Your work as a Senior Security Engineer will be crucial in empowering our customers to push the boundaries of technology confidently. From manually testing our application(s) to optimizing our test automation and overall coverage, your efforts will be central to our mission of facilitating innovation in a dynamic industry.

Responsibilities & Duties

• Conduct policy gap assessments to determine policy areas that need updating to meet security requirements.

• You’ll operate with significant autonomy to identify opportunities, drive DevSecOps initiatives, and implement solutions that leverage technology and automation to scale

• Support engineers across the SDLC as a security subject matter expert, including design reviews, threat modeling, code review, patch creation, and penetration testing

• Perform deep, technical security assessments to ensure services follow secure design principles across our engineering portfolio

• Collaborate with product and engineering on architecting resilient, security-first services

• Periodically run tabletop and red/blue team exercises to keep our security response processes mature and timely

• Conduct security awareness training for employees and provide guidance on secure coding practices and data protection.

Minimum Qualifications & Skills

• Has 5+ years of experience working in software security roles or performing similar types of work (e.g. application security, security engineering, product security, security research)

• Experience framing security problems in business language and building support for security initiatives

• Has direct experience in activities such as threat modeling, penetration testing, creating security requirements, performing source code reviews, or leading security design reviews

• Experienced owning vendor relationships for security tooling, working with auditors, and interacting with external pen-testers

• Experience in B2B SaaS environments

• Familiar with Observability platforms (e.g. Datadog, Prometheus) and best practices around infrastructure and application monitoring

• Experience with scripting or programming languages for automation and security testing.

• Knowledge of security principles and industry standards.

• Extensive experience with cloud services (e.g. AWS)

• Previous experience implementing compliance programs and certifications (e.g. SOC2, GDPR, NIST, ISO)

Preferred Qualifications & Skills

• A proactive mindset with a knack for identifying potential security risks before they become problems.

• Comfortable in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with a commitment to excellence.

• Extensive experience within Amazon Web Services (AWS).

• Experience with ITAR compliance.

• Experience with real world security incidents that you have learned from.

• Relevant security certifications such as CISSP, CEH, or CISM are a plus.

Benefits & Perks

• Health Insurance; medical, vision, dental, & life insurance.

• Paid Parental Leave.

• Employee Stock Option Plan.

• Team outings, group lunches, open office, happy hours.

• Paid holidays, sick days.

• Flexible Friday and PTO.

• 401K.

First Resonance is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce.

First Resonance participates in E-Verify. As part of our onboarding process, a new hire's Form I-9 information will be shared with the federal government to confirm they are authorized to work in the U.S.

Pay is based on factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience and skillset, and location. Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity and benefits.

Pay Range

$140,000—$175,000 USD

First Resonance accelerates the speed and reliability of hardware development for companies manufacturing the next generation of hardware products. This includes electric airplanes, autonomous vehicles, robotics, and more. We are a group of software, hardware, and manufacturing engineers that are bringing the best of modern UX and data science to an industry that has been overly rigid in its innovation. We are removing the barriers preventing radical advancement by providing tools to manufacturing engineers and operators to move information more freely, collaborate with their teams more easily, and use the power of data to predict problems and provide insights that result in better hardware quality and delivery.