Senior Security Engineer

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Responsibilities

• ▹Lead the information security program across NEAR Foundation, with a dotted line into NEAR Intents' security leadership.
• ▹Drive SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 readiness and ongoing compliance at NEAR AI: control design, evidence collection, auditor liaison and remediation.
• ▹Support the operation of the NEAR Security Committee.
• ▹Run logging, monitoring and alerting; lead investigation and response for security incidents.
• ▹Run vulnerability management, third-party risk reviews and security awareness across the organization.
• ▹Own the security architecture and hardening of the identity, access and endpoint stack, SSO/MFA, MDM, EDR, conditional access, privileged access.
• ▹Engineer security and compliance automation across the SaaS estate.
• ▹Be the senior technical escalation point for complex security issues.
• ▹Lead security tooling rollouts and vendor selection.
• ▹Help maintain a secure cloud footprint, AWS/GCP: baseline configuration, secrets management and posture monitoring.
• ▹Maintain the security policy library.

Requirements

• ▹7+ years in information security with strong IT engineering depth, including meaningful time as a senior IC owning programs end-to-end.
• ▹Demonstrated ownership of SOC 2 Type 2 and ideally ISO 27001 readiness and audit cycles.
• ▹Deep hands-on experience across IAM, endpoint and at least one cloud, AWS or GCP.
• ▹Comfortable scripting, Python, Go or Bash, and automating IT and security workflows.
• ▹Practical experience with SSO/IdP platforms, Okta, Google Workspace, Entra, MDM/EDR tooling, and modern logging/SIEM stacks.
• ▹Strong written communication.

Soft skills

About the company

NEAR Foundation supports the growth of the NEAR ecosystem, including NEAR AI, NEAR Intents and the underlying NEAR Protocol, across multiple entities and product nodes.