Braze
Senior Security Engineer II
$149K–$261K
Chicago +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 24, 2026
- Location
- Chicago
New York City - Experience
- Several years; no specific number or alternative stated.
About the job
Set technical direction for Braze’s cloud security program, defining standards and leading architecture, detection, incident response, and Kubernetes security initiatives across Engineering.
What you'll do
- Establish cloud security standards, reference architectures, and threat-modeling practices; lead cross-team security initiatives and mentor engineers.
- Design cloud threat detections, lead incident response and forensics, and manage security tooling and cloud vulnerability workflows.
- Secure self-managed Kubernetes, IaC and CI/CD pipelines, container and VM environments, and distributed systems and data stores.
What they ask for
- Several years owning production cloud security, including on-call responsibility.
- Hands-on experience with AWS as the primary cloud, working GCP experience, and self-managed Kubernetes.
- Ability to read and write code, including Python and TF.
Nice to have
- Terraform is preferred.
Pay
USD $149,000 and $235,000/year (base salary); USD $166,000 and $261,000/year (OTE, including bonus or commission)
Tools
AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Python, TF, Terraform, CrowdStrike, Tenable
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