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Staff/Lead Enterprise Security Engineer
Security Engineer
• Principal
• Hybrid
• Full-time
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San Francisco, USA
Beacon Software is hiring its first dedicated security engineer to set the strategy and build the enterprise security program from the ground up. This is a deeply hands-on role focused on preventing, detecting, and responding to threats across Beacon's corporate and cloud environments and its portfolio companies.
Responsibilities
- ▹Own prevention, detection, and response: tune the detection stack, write detection logic, own triage, build SIEM telemetry
- ▹Own the endpoint security stack (EDR, DLP, secure browser, hardening) and its technical roadmap
- ▹Lead incident response: playbook and tabletop readiness, drive response when incidents occur
- ▹Set and confirm identity and access security standards (MFA, SSO, SCIM lifecycle, least privilege)
- ▹Run security across the portfolio: baseline audits, ongoing monitoring, SaaS risk management (SSPM, OAuth, shadow IT)
- ▹Own the email security and phishing awareness program
- ▹Run vendor security review for new tools
Requirements
- ▹Deep, hands-on security engineering across endpoint, detection and response, identity, cloud, SaaS, and email
- ▹Ability to build tooling and automation from scratch
- ▹High bar for threat modeling, secure design, detection quality, and IR rigor
- ▹Highly independent, able to set priorities against a broad surface and fast M&A cadence
- ▹Confident and credible with people outside the security team
- ▹Comfortable in greenfield and ambiguity
Soft skills
High autonomy and proactive driveCredibility and confidence with stakeholdersHumility, honesty, and hunger per company values
About the company
Beacon Software is building a generational software company grounded in values of humility, honesty, hunger, and long-term, compounding growth.
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