Clay
Security Engineer
About this role
Clay is seeking senior or staff-level Security Engineers to build a modern security organization from the ground up. You'll write production code for security tooling and detection systems while leveraging AI to scale security operations across a rapidly growing platform serving thousands of enterprise customers.
What you'll do
- Design and implement security tooling, detection systems, and remediation pipelines
- Secure cloud infrastructure including IAM, network policies, container security, and secrets management
- Define AI-assisted vulnerability discovery and automated code review strategies
- Collaborate with Infrastructure and Product teams to embed secure defaults into workflows
- Own end-to-end security projects from design through implementation and measurement
- Establish least-privilege access patterns across services and users
What they're looking for
- Software engineering fundamentals
- Cloud security (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Application security
- Infrastructure security and IAM
- Container security
- Threat detection and incident response
- Automation and CI/CD pipeline security
- AI/ML integration for security
Benefits
- Work with world-class coaches specializing in creativity and management
- Access to free coaching and professional development
- Unique culture that celebrates diverse interests and backgrounds
- Opportunity to shape security strategy at a fast-growing $5B company
- Based in New York location
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Clay
Clay builds go-to-market and developer experience infrastructure, including automation workflows, sales tools, and web experiences that help teams acquire customers and improve efficiency. The company is hiring GTM Engineers to build internal systems and automations, Web Developers to create conversion-focused experiences, and Software Engineers to improve developer tooling and AI integration.
View all jobs at ClayLikely interview questions
- Walk us through a time you designed and built a security tool or system from scratch. How did you measure its effectiveness?
- Describe your experience with cloud security—specifically IAM, network policies, or secrets management. What's the most complex misconfiguration you've prevented?