Braze
Senior Security Engineer II
$149K–$261K
Austin +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 24, 2026
- Location
- Austin
New York City - Experience
- Several years; no specific number stated.
About the job
Sets technical direction for Braze’s cloud security, defining standards and leading cross-team initiatives to secure cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, and distributed systems.
What you'll do
- Define cloud security standards, reference architectures, and threat-modeling practices; lead security initiatives and mentor engineers.
- Build cloud threat detection and incident-response capabilities, manage security tooling and vulnerability workflows, and codify findings into playbooks and controls.
- Secure AWS and GCP environments, self-managed Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, and distributed systems.
What they ask for
- Several years owning production cloud security, including on-call responsibility.
- Hands-on experience with AWS as the primary cloud, working knowledge of GCP, 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 total pay (OTE, including bonus or commission)
Tools
AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Python, TF, Terraform, CrowdStrike, Tenable
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