Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Seattle, WA

Lead cryptographic security assessments of protocols, libraries, applications, and high-assurance systems. Analyze advanced cryptographic constructions, identify design and implementation weaknesses, validate exploitability, and recommend remediation. Build testing and analysis tools, manage client delivery, write precise technical reports, mentor engineers, contribute to methodologies and services, and support open-source research and technical publications.

Designs and advances security architecture for Microsoft’s enterprise productivity environment. The role assesses evolving risk, analyzes systems and telemetry, develops reusable security patterns and tooling, partners with engineering teams on deployment, communicates risk and tradeoffs, and establishes priorities and roadmaps amid incomplete information.

Build and operate security controls, telemetry, detections, and enforcement for NVIDIA’s large-scale EDA compute, storage, and networking infrastructure across on-premises and multi-cloud environments. Investigate threats, respond to incidents, automate secure configurations and compliance evidence, threat-model infrastructure, and manage security technology lifecycles. The role requires hands-on Linux, networking, programming, infrastructure security, and collaboration with infrastructure and security teams.

Implements and operates data security controls across cloud analytics platforms, databases, data lakes, storage, and pipelines. Responsibilities include encryption, key and secrets management, least-privilege access, data classification, masking, tokenization, database hardening, secure integrations, entitlement reviews, automation, telemetry, compliance evidence, threat modeling, documentation, and technical support. The role collaborates with security, data, governance, engineering, and IT teams while working remotely.

Owns and strengthens the security posture of cloud-based SaaS and Microsoft 365 environments. Responsibilities include vulnerability management, incident response, cloud and endpoint hardening, identity and data protection, secure configuration, monitoring, compliance evidence, customer security reviews, and risk management aligned with HITRUST, HIPAA, NIST, and related frameworks.

Designs, implements, configures, and supports enterprise cybersecurity solutions across IAM, endpoint, network, email, application, cloud, and security awareness domains. Conducts vulnerability assessments, threat hunting, incident investigation, security tool tuning, policy development, and security architecture reviews. Serves as a security subject matter expert on technology projects, collaborates with an MSSP, provides incident escalation support, and maintains availability for critical security operations.

Engineer and maintain enterprise network security platforms across on-premises and cloud environments. Design firewall and network security solutions, troubleshoot complex connectivity and security issues, and automate infrastructure operations using scripting, APIs, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, and CI/CD pipelines. Support platform upgrades, vulnerability remediation, monitoring integrations, validation processes, and modernization initiatives while collaborating with network, cloud, application, and security teams.

Leads end-to-end development of security data pipelines, APIs, services, and endpoint protection platforms. Architects scalable, reliable, and hardened cloud security infrastructure; creates design documentation, monitoring, alerting, and vulnerability defenses. Collaborates with security, infrastructure, and engineering teams, supports on-call operations, mentors engineers, and communicates technical strategies to executives and customers. The role also develops automated systems for threat intelligence, security reporting, and intrusion prevention across public and private cloud environments.

Build and lead development of a scalable AI security platform, including foundational services, APIs, libraries, SDKs, and guardrails for AI-powered security capabilities. Design secure, reliable distributed systems with identity, authentication, authorization, encryption, and data protection controls. Partner across security and engineering teams, improve platform performance and developer experience, and guide the architecture and technical direction of the platform.

Build and scale platform security through architecture reviews, threat modeling, IaC hardening, IAM improvements, Kubernetes security, and disaster recovery exercises. Develop automation for detection, response, compliance, onboarding, access anomaly detection, and self-service security posture checks. Investigate incidents, track root-cause remediation, support SOC 2 evidence collection, and collaborate closely with software engineers on secure development and incident response.

Conduct penetration tests across infrastructure, networks, web and mobile applications, and cloud environments. Perform application and cloud security testing, simulate adversary techniques, develop custom security tools, document vulnerabilities, validate remediation, and support HIPAA, SOC 2, and PCI DSS compliance. Collaborate with engineering and product teams, track emerging threats, and contribute to purple-team exercises, tabletop events, and security training.

Lead enterprise security architecture across cloud, application, infrastructure, identity, data, and third-party environments. Develop security principles, standards, patterns, and controls; review designs; conduct threat modeling and risk assessments; guide secure-by-design implementations; and advise technical and business stakeholders. The role also supports regulatory compliance, evaluates security technologies, and strengthens organizational security practices.

Design and ship product security improvements covering authentication, authorization, session and token handling, secrets management, third-party access, abuse detection, fraud prevention, and account takeover defense. Threat-model systems, remediate vulnerabilities, build secure developer tooling, and partner with Product, Engineering, and Trust & Safety. Mentor engineers and use AI-assisted development while balancing security controls with user experience.

Build and automate security infrastructure across AWS and Kubernetes, including cryptographic material lifecycle, telemetry pipelines, policy-as-code, compliance monitoring, and incident-response tooling. Develop agentic AI workflows using coding assistants, MCP integrations, and custom harnesses. Apply threat modeling and secure architecture review while partnering with engineering, risk, auditors, vendors, and clients. The role emphasizes production software, cloud-native automation, continuous control monitoring, and eliminating manual security toil.

Build and operate a reliable security platform across hundreds of AWS environments. Responsibilities include security telemetry and OpenSearch infrastructure, GitOps deployments, Kubernetes and AWS security controls, cross-account and multi-region architecture, Python automation, and agentic AI workflows. The role participates in on-call support, security incident enablement, audit evidence automation, and reliability improvements while collaborating with Security Operations, Risk, and SRE teams.

Leads technical security engagements involving presentations, demonstrations, workshops, architecture design, and production-ready pilots. Designs and proves Microsoft and third-party cloud security, compliance, privacy, XDR, zero trust, and data protection solutions. Collaborates with sales, consulting, and partner teams, resolves technical and competitive blockers, influences strategy, and guides customer implementations. The role requires strong technical pre-sales or consulting experience and expertise in cloud, hybrid, and on-premises infrastructure.

Design and develop security frameworks for Aurora’s autonomous vehicle platform and cloud services. Lead vehicle security implementation, architecture reviews, threat modeling, code reviews, security releases, and integration with partner teams and OEMs. Write production-quality C++ and Golang, mentor engineers, translate requirements into products, and apply cryptographic, infrastructure, network, embedded, and hardware security practices.

Leads SoFi’s Offensive Security function, unifying penetration testing and red teaming. Owns strategy, staffing, tooling, metrics, vendor relationships, regulatory engagement, and execution quality. Builds AI-assisted offensive security capabilities for reconnaissance, exploit development, attack-path analysis, testing, and reporting. Personally contributes to network, application, cloud, mobile, AI, and adversary-emulation engagements while hiring, coaching, and developing the team and partnering with engineering, risk, vulnerability management, and incident response.

Build and scale backend security platform services, including authentication, authorization, identity infrastructure, permission systems, and data models. Lead cross-team technical initiatives, standardize security solutions, collaborate with compliance and mission stakeholders, and influence architecture and engineering standards. The role requires strong system design, backend development, security expertise, technical leadership, and the ability to operate in sensitive environments.

Leads secure enterprise architecture design and GitLab Professional Services implementations across application security, cloud security, DevSecOps, identity, vulnerability management, and compliance. Guides SaaS, Self-Managed, and Dedicated deployment decisions; leads CI/CD, source control, and security-tool migrations; conducts risk assessments and threat modeling; supports pre-sales scoping and statements of work; coordinates cross-functional delivery; mentors consultants; and develops security enablement materials.

Provides technical leadership for enterprise AI security, designing secure AI platform architectures, vetting frameworks, identity and posture management for AI agents, and preventative security guardrails. The role requires building scalable security systems with Python, Go, or Java, managing infrastructure as code, addressing cloud and container security, mentoring engineers, and advising leadership on AI security risks.

The Senior Security Engineer architects, implements, and supports enterprise security capabilities across vulnerability management, cloud security, identity, endpoint, application security, and security architecture. The role leads security initiatives, resolves complex platform issues, develops automation and AI-assisted workflows, establishes documentation and reporting standards, and mentors security engineers and analysts while partnering across infrastructure, application, network, cloud, and security teams.

Provides security architecture and advisory guidance for large-scale cloud infrastructure and foundational services. Conducts threat modeling, security design reviews, risk assessments, and vulnerability mitigation throughout the software development lifecycle. Partners with engineering and product teams to implement secure designs, prioritize risk-based initiatives, and improve security roadmaps. Applies expertise in cloud security, identity and access management, network security, secure development practices, and infrastructure protection while influencing stakeholders without direct authority.

Designs, deploys, troubleshoots, and supports enterprise network and security infrastructure, including routing, switching, firewalls, wireless, cloud networking, VPNs, and data center services. The role analyzes operational incidents, implements remediation, maintains documentation, communicates with management, supports roadmap decisions, and participates in on-call rotations. It requires extensive experience with multi-vendor network security technologies, cloud platforms, and customer-facing technical work.

Secure Compass’s enterprise endpoints, SaaS applications, identity systems, office networks, and AI tooling. The role modernizes endpoint management, builds Terraform and GitOps automation, manages identity and security controls, evaluates third-party and AI risks, supports detection and response, conducts threat modeling, and guides engineering teams toward stronger security practices.