Hiring: Security Engineer Company: HUD Location: San Francisco, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-17 01:25:35 Employment Type: Full-time / Remote Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, GitHub, REST, SOC 2 About the job Experience: •Strong security engineering fundamentals and hands-on experience across multiple areas such as infrastructure security, detection and response, identity, etc. •High agency and sound judgment—you can identify and prioritize the risks that matter, make pragmatic decisions under uncertainty, and personally drive implementation •Strong communication skills for working with founders, engineers, operations, legal, auditors, customers, and external partners Required Skills: •We’re looking for a Security Engineer to own and build HUD’s security program as our first full-time security hire. You will work closely with the rest engineering to secure our product, cloud infrastructure, data workflows, and internal systems. You’ll also lead incident response, SOC 2, and customer trust. •We are securing up to billions in data assets and are looking for someone who can lead security such that our infrastructure is never compromised. •Lead detection and incident response from signal to alert to postmortem •Own HUD’s security roadmap across product security, cloud and infrastructure security, corporate security, incident response, and compliance •Secure HUD’s APIs, platform, and data systems through threat modeling, design and code reviews, authentication and authorization controls, secrets management, etc. •Build monitoring, detection, and incident-response capabilities; lead investigations and postmortems; and turn incidents and emerging threats into durable improvements •Own SOC 2 and customer trust, including control design, security questionnaires, policy management, vendor reviews, and audits Qualifications: •Partner with legal, commercial, engineering, and operations to translate customer contracts and data-license requirements into enforceable controls for data access, provenance, permitted use, retention, deletion, isolation, and auditability Compensation: •$140,000 - $250,000 / year •100% covered top-of-the-line medical, dental, and vision from Blue Shield of CA (US employees) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!