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Staff/Lead Enterprise Security Engineer

Security Engineer • Principal • Hybrid • Full-time United States 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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