Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in Seattle, WA

Designs and integrates secure information systems, cloud, and defense architectures; leads federal NIST RMF and ATO processes; implements security controls; performs vulnerability, threat, and risk assessments; advises engineering and program teams; and manages continuous monitoring, compliance, audit, and patch-management activities.

Leads technical security sales engagements through demonstrations, proofs of concept, hackathons, architecture workshops, and customer consultations. Designs secure, scalable cloud and hybrid architectures, resolves technical blockers, and advises customers on Microsoft Security solutions, including Defender and Sentinel. Develops security posture recommendations, supports XDR, zero trust, cloud security, and AI adoption strategies, while influencing technical decisions and representing Microsoft in developer communities.

Owns end-to-end security engineering, including risk identification, secure-by-default libraries, least-privilege guardrails, developer machine hardening, supply-chain security, and identity and authentication protections. Partners with compliance to implement effective controls for healthcare requirements such as HIPAA and HITRUST. The role requires production software engineering and security expertise, with broad autonomy in a fully remote environment.

Designs and operates identity and access management systems across human, service, workload, and AI identities. Owns lifecycle automation, data-driven access models, time-bound entitlements, identity-as-code, cloud IAM, and AI-powered access reviews. Partners with Engineering, IT, and Compliance to reduce unnecessary access, support audits, and respond to identity-related incidents. Requires strong software engineering skills and hands-on experience with Okta, enterprise SaaS provisioning, AWS IAM, and AI or LLM tooling.

Identify and remediate vulnerabilities across products and AWS infrastructure, respond to security incidents, close security tickets, integrate security controls into CI/CD, review code and infrastructure, support SOC 2 and CASA compliance, and strengthen access management, secrets handling, and cloud hardening.

Perform penetration testing, threat modeling, security design reviews, and vulnerability validation across applications, APIs, infrastructure, cloud-native systems, and AI agents. Build AI-powered security automation, identify complex attack paths, and partner with engineering teams to improve security controls and eliminate vulnerability classes. Translate technical findings into actionable guidance and lead complex assessments across organizational boundaries.

Designs and scales network security systems, real-time algorithms, and automated defenses against bot attacks and DDoS threats. Processes network telemetry using streaming and machine learning technologies, automates cloud and edge security controls with Terraform, improves monitoring and resilience, responds to incidents, conducts technical reviews, develops runbooks, and mentors engineers.

Architect and engineer multi-tenant SIEM, SOAR, EDR, telemetry, and cloud security platforms for managed security services. Build detection content, automate response workflows, optimize log ingestion, and secure customer connectivity. Lead technical discovery, onboarding, security assessments, remediation planning, escalations, solution design, and customer advisory engagements. Create architectures, runbooks, and documentation while shaping the MSSP technology strategy.

Leads regional enterprise security sales by serving as a cloud security expert, shaping opportunities, advising account teams, managing executive relationships, and orchestrating technical teams and partners. Conducts architecture reviews, demos, proof-of-concepts, pilots, ROI/TCO analyses, and consultative engagements to promote Microsoft security solutions, Zero Trust adoption, and customer business outcomes.

Provides security engineering and architecture expertise for FedRAMP Cloud Service Provider assessments. Reviews full-stack architectures, authorization packages, security controls, policies, assessment reports, vulnerability scans, and penetration tests for compliance with FedRAMP, NIST, FISMA, RMF, and agency requirements. Leads vendor interviews, identifies technical and documentation gaps, supports continuous monitoring, advises government program leaders and CISOs, and provides security recommendations for cloud systems.

Implement and configure SailPoint IdentityIQ and Identity Security Cloud solutions, including identity lifecycle management, access certifications, provisioning, integrations, workflows, rules, and application onboarding. Lead or support IIQ-to-ISC migrations, gather client requirements, create technical documentation, troubleshoot deployments, and support UAT and hypercare. The role also involves client interaction, mentoring junior engineers, and contributing to reusable delivery assets in a remote consulting environment.

Architect and scale global network security systems for bot detection, bot mitigation, and DDoS defense. Build distributed backend systems, ML-driven threat defense pipelines, feature stores, and real-time streaming infrastructure. Lead technical strategy, vendor integrations, architecture reviews, security KPI development, experimentation, and cross-functional initiatives while mentoring engineers.

Lead technical security diligence, integration, and operational security for acquired companies and subsidiaries. Assess cyber maturity, identify risks, deploy security tooling, build automation, normalize telemetry, and improve security visibility across cloud, on-premises, identity, endpoint, SaaS, and engineering environments. Support incident response, containment, remediation, and recovery while developing reusable security playbooks and frameworks. Communicate technical risks to executives and collaborate with security, IT, legal, corporate development, engineering, and business stakeholders.

Lead architecture and evolution of an enterprise vulnerability management platform. Design risk-based vulnerability management systems, automate remediation, integrate security scanning into development and infrastructure workflows, and apply AI/ML to vulnerability triage and remediation. Establish governance, analyze complex vulnerabilities, guide risk decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate across IT, product, compliance, and operations teams.

Lead Prelim’s security program across secure SDLC, application and cloud security, IAM, incident response, endpoint management, vendor risk, security reviews, and SOC 2 Type II compliance. Partner with DevOps and engineering, coordinate penetration testing, develop policies and risk roadmaps, manage audits and customer questionnaires, and improve detection and access controls. The role is the company’s first dedicated security hire and requires strong judgment, communication, and hands-on technical skills.

Own and advance cybersecurity for satellites, flight software, ground systems, mission networks, communication links, and AWS infrastructure. Responsibilities include security architecture, threat modeling, vulnerability management, incident response, IAM, SIEM detection engineering, network defense, cloud security, DLP, security assessments, awareness training, and compliance with CMMC Level 2, NIST 800-171, and ITAR/EAR requirements. The role collaborates with aerospace, software, systems, and compliance teams and requires expertise in mission-system security.

Lead a global security engineering org (~20 engineers) to design, deliver, and operate enterprise security platforms including an AI-driven security copilot, endpoint/server antivirus, and container security (image scanning, policy enforcement, runtime protection). Set technical direction, partner with product and infrastructure teams to embed security into workflows, own roadmaps, staffing, budget, and drive adoption across the firm.

Secure Wiz’s products, CI/CD systems, and production cloud infrastructure through threat modeling, security reviews, vulnerability management, detection and response, cloud and Kubernetes security baselines, policy-as-code, and automation. Partner with engineering, DevOps, operations, and Federal teams to implement scalable security controls, remediate risks, support FedRAMP requirements, and promote secure-by-design development practices.

Build and operate infrastructure security platforms centered on workload identity, service-to-service authentication, authorization, and short-lived credentials. Replace static secrets with identity-based systems, develop identity-authenticated proxies and APIs, and unify authorization policy management. Partner with platform and application teams to drive adoption, migrate legacy systems, and ensure reliable production infrastructure with strong developer experience.

Provides security engineering and architecture expertise for FedRAMP authorization and continuous monitoring. Reviews cloud service provider architectures, security controls, authorization packages, assessment reports, vulnerabilities, and compliance documentation against NIST, FedRAMP, FISMA, RMF, and agency requirements. Leads vendor interviews, identifies technical and documentation gaps, advises government program leads and CISOs on risk posture, and supports secure, compliant, resilient system design.

Owns broad product and operational security responsibilities, including identity and access management, threat modeling, code review, fuzzing, bug bounty operations, AI security research, software supply chain monitoring, penetration test coordination, and compliance evidence. The role requires a strong software engineering background, product security expertise, security tooling development, systems programming experience, and familiarity with web3 or DeFi. It is remote-first and emphasizes autonomy, documentation, and high ownership.

Lead corporate endpoint security architecture with a focus on macOS, designing secure-by-default controls, automation, patching, software distribution, and security baselines across macOS, iOS, Windows, and Linux. Manage configurations through Terraform, GitOps, version control, CI pipelines, and automated rollouts. Partner with IT and security teams to improve telemetry, detection, response, auditability, and operational efficiency. Mentor engineers and serve as a senior escalation point for complex endpoint security issues in a fully remote environment.

Build backend services and distributed systems for a cybersecurity and software supply chain security platform. Develop scalable APIs, data pipelines, and platform components handling vulnerability, container, package, runtime, and SBOM data. Work across Linux, Kubernetes, containers, and cloud environments while solving concurrency, performance, reliability, and distributed processing challenges. Own projects from design through deployment, participate in architecture discussions, review code, and collaborate with security researchers and product teams.

Lead identity security engineering strategy across user, development, and production environments. Guide IAM architecture, privileged access management, threat detection, adversarial testing, compliance automation, and security-control validation. Mentor engineers, define identity security roadmaps, build automation and proofs of concept, collaborate with business and security leaders, and modernize protective controls using offensive and defensive security expertise.

Build and secure scalable backend services for an AI product, focusing on authentication, authorization, data isolation, threat monitoring, secrets and key management, vulnerability management, audit logging, and enterprise data protection. Partner with security, compliance, product, and engineering teams to identify trust-boundary issues and deliver pragmatic security improvements. Contribute to cloud infrastructure, compliance initiatives, and general backend engineering in a fast-moving startup environment.