Staff Security Engineer

Overview

Staff Security Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and continuously evolving enterprise security technologies that protect Alkami's infrastructure, cloud environments, and business operations, applying broad technical expertise to complex security engineering challenges and influencing technical direction across multiple engineering organizations.

What you'll do

• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of enterprise security platforms by evaluating technologies, establishing engineering standards, and delivering scalable security capabilities across the organization.
• Architect and optimize security infrastructure by advancing endpoint protection, secrets management, vulnerability management, identity security, and related enterprise security technologies.
• Lead complex security engineering initiatives by identifying capability gaps, selecting technical solutions, coordinating implementation, and ensuring successful operational handoff to support teams.
• Partner with Network Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Engineering, and Infrastructure teams by embedding security controls into enterprise architecture, operational processes, and technology platforms.
• Design and implement security automation, orchestration, and engineering integrations by reducing operational overhead, improving consistency, and increasing security coverage across enterprise environments.
• Lead enterprise vulnerability remediation efforts by analyzing systemic weaknesses, coordinating cross-functional remediation activities, and implementing long-term engineering improvements that reduce recurring security risk.
• Evaluate emerging security technologies by assessing technical capabilities, operational fit, scalability, and long-term business value while recommending enterprise adoption strategies.
• Develop enterprise engineering standards, operational procedures, and security baselines by promoting consistency, resilience, and maintainability across security platforms.
• Provide technical leadership during complex security incidents by supporting investigations, performing root cause analysis, and implementing engineering improvements that strengthen defensive capabilities.
• Advise engineering and technology teams by providing expert guidance on secure infrastructure design, platform integrations, and security architecture decisions.
• Develop security metrics and operational reporting by measuring platform health, engineering effectiveness, vulnerability reduction, and overall security program maturity.
• Mentor security engineers by sharing technical expertise, reviewing engineering solutions, and promoting engineering excellence across the security organization.
• Collaborate with Risk, Compliance, and Audit teams by demonstrating security control effectiveness and supporting regulatory, customer, and internal audit requirements.
• Research emerging security threats, engineering practices, automation technologies, and cloud security capabilities by translating industry advancements into continuous improvements for Alkami's security program.

What you'll need

• 6–10 years of experience in security engineering, infrastructure security, cloud security, systems engineering, or a related information security discipline, including broad experience leading complex enterprise security engineering initiatives across multiple technology domains.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, Information Technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
• Advanced enterprise security engineering and platform architecture.
• Expertise with endpoint security, vulnerability management, secrets management, and identity security technologies.
• Cloud security engineering across AWS and modern infrastructure platforms.
• Security automation, orchestration, scripting, and systems integration.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise infrastructure, networking, operating systems, and cloud technologies.
• Ability to lead complex cross-functional engineering initiatives and influence technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and architectural problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with technical and business audiences.
• Ability to travel onsite to Alkami HQ periodically (approximately 1–2 trips annually) for team meetings, offsites, or company events.

Nice to have

• CISSP, CCSP, GSEC, or comparable professional security certification.
• Experience supporting regulated financial services environments.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, automation frameworks, and cloud-native technologies.
• Experience evaluating and implementing emerging security platforms and engineering capabilities.
• Experience leading enterprise security platform modernization initiatives.
• Network security experience working with CloudFlare, PaloAlto or similar tools.
• Familiarity or desire to work with Agentic tools such as OpenAI Daybreak or similar to improve security.

Details

• Remote, US (remote-first company; this role is indicated as remote in the US).
• Salary range: $128,800 - $161,000.
• We cannot offer employment sponsorship at this time; candidates must be eligible to work in the US for full-time employment.
• Employment type: full-time.