Security Engineer II, Cloud & Platform Security
Nscale — Houston, Texas, United States · Hybrid · Mid · $130k - $160k/yearly
Role description
Role Overview
As a Security Engineer II in the Cloud & Platform Security team, you'll investigate real findings and incidents, separate meaningful risk from noise, and work with engineering to resolve the causes. This is a hands-on cloud-security, detection, and response role.
What You Will Do
You'll review cloud posture, triage production threats, improve the telemetry needed to investigate them, and turn incident findings into lasting improvements in controls and coverage.
Why It Might Be a Fit
You'll be working with a collaborative, supportive, and innovative environment where your contributions spark real impact. You'll have a dynamic progression plan tailored to your ambitions and a highly competitive US compensation package (base + bonus + equity).
Requirements
- 2–5 years of security experience
- Hands-on work in security operations, cloud security, detection and response, or incident response and forensics
- Practical experience triaging findings and alerts
- Working knowledge of cloud security and posture management in AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Familiarity with logging, SIEM, and detection tooling
- Exposure to incident response and digital forensics
- Comfort working with and investigating Kubernetes, containers, Linux, and APIs
- Clear written communication
- Collaborative approach and ownership of findings through resolution
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation