Your browser does not support javascript! Please enable it, otherwise web will not work for you.

Security Engineer

Home > Other programming jobs

Security Engineer in UK new

  • PostHog
  • Full time
  • Email
  • Remote

Responsibilities

  • Own and tune Wiz security alerts to reduce noise and produce actionable findings.
  • Lead security incident detection and response, coordinate containment, and develop post-incident reviews and IR runbooks.
  • Build security detection pipelines and improve network-based observability to trace suspicious activity to specific code paths.
  • Conduct proactive threat hunting in the AWS environment and define telemetry for expected behavior.
  • Support the Vulnerability Disclosure Program and help transition toward a formal bug bounty program.
  • Assist product squads with threat modeling and secure design reviews.
  • Build internal security products and agents for alert triage, pull-request review, and vulnerability assignment.
  • Help strengthen PostHog’s security culture by enabling engineers to build securely.

Requirements

  • 3–5+ years of security engineering experience with a heavy focus on AWS.
  • Strong practical knowledge of IAM, VPC logs, and CloudTrail.
  • Experience using CSPM/CNAPP tools such as Wiz or Prisma and building trusted detection pipelines.
  • Previous leadership of incident response activities and cross-team threat coordination.
  • Ability to build the security function and prioritize work autonomously without a security SOC or detailed manual.
  • Strong software engineering skills, including the ability to inspect code to understand exploits and vulnerabilities and write code at product-engineering proficiency.
  • A collaborative, enabling communication style focused on helping engineers implement security safely.

Benefits

  • Natively remote work with async communication and meeting-free Tuesdays and Thursdays.
  • High autonomy, direct impact, and the opportunity to build security operations and tooling from scratch.
  • Open-source company culture with transparency into strategy, incidents, compensation practices, and ways of working.
  • Dedicated heads-down building time and a small-team environment focused on shipping quickly.

PostHog

PostHog builds an open‑source, all‑in‑one platform for product teams and engineers that combines product analytics, session recordings, feature flags, A/B testing, a built‑in data warehouse, and AI‑assisted analysis. The company offers self‑hosted and hosted plans (US/EU) with SOC 2, GDPR, and HI...

Similar positions

Senior Test Automation Engineer

  • City of New York
  • Full time
  • USA
  • 09/13/2026
  • Brooklyn, NY

Backend Engineer, Security Platform

  • Vannevar
  • Full time
  • USA
  • 09/13/2026
  • Salary: $150k - $215k/yr
  • Remote

Agentic Security Engineer

  • NXP Semiconductors
  • Full time
  • USA
  • 09/13/2026
  • Austin, TX

Sr Application Security Engineer

  • Henry Schein One
  • Full time
  • USA
  • 09/13/2026
  • Salary: $125k-$160k
  • Remote

Senior DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure & Reliabili

  • Worth AI
  • Full time
  • USA
  • 09/13/2026
  • Remote