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Software Development · 2.3k people

Senior Security Engineer, Enterprise Security

Posted 23 Oct

What’s this role about? Design and manage security solutions to protect employees, assets, and infrastructure while hardening internal configurations and securing SaaS applications. Collaborate with technical stakeholders to enhance SIEM capabilities, perform forensics, and respond to critical incidents via an on-call rotation.

Chicago, Illinois
Hybrid
$129K – $180K
Full-time
5-10 years exp
1 N State St, Floor 10, Chicago, Illinois 60123

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Company

About Braze Braze is the leading customer engagement platform that empowers brands to Be Absolutely Engaging.™ Braze allows any marketer to collect and take action on any amount of data from any source, so they can creatively engage with customers in real time, across channels from one platform. From cross-channel messaging and journey orchestration to Al-powered experimentation and optimization, Braze enables companies to build and maintain absolutely engaging relationships with their customers that foster growth and loyalty. The company has been recognized as a 2024 U.S. News & World Report Best Companies to Work For, 2024 Best Small & Medium Workplaces in Europe by Great Place to Work®, 2024 Fortune Best Workplaces for Women™ by Great Place to Work® and was named a Leader by Gartner® in the 2024 Magic Quadrant™ for Multichannel Marketing Hubs and a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Email Marketing Service Providers, Q3 2024. Braze is headquartered in New York with 15 offices across AMER, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC. Learn more at braze.com.

Braze

Braze is the leading customer engagement platform that empowers brands to Be Absolutely Engaging.™

mobile engagementmobile marketingmarketing automation for appssoftwaredigital marketingcustomer engagementmarketing technologyemail marketingcross-channel marketingcustomer experience
BBraze logo
1,001-5,000 employees
Software Development
2011
Public Company
287k LinkedIn followers
Raised $314.3M

Responsibilities

  • As a Senior Security Engineer on the Enterprise Security team, you'll protect
  • Braze employees, their devices, and our work locations. You'll investigate
  • malware and advanced threats, secure our SaaS applications, harden internal
  • configurations, propose security architecture improvements, and build the alerts
  • and reports that keep the team ahead of risk.
  • You'll own core security infrastructure that sits at the center of Enterprise
  • Security operations and works closely with Cloud Security, App Security, and
  • Information Technology. That means developing and enforcing policies, expanding
  • our SIEM capabilities with partners across the business, and evaluating vendor
  • and partner technologies for security gaps.
  • Your day-to-day spans threat and malware investigations, SaaS security, AI
  • security,  architecture review, MDM, communications management, and
  • vulnerability remediation. You'll secure communications, support compliance
  • efforts, and automate wherever it reduces toil. You'll work both independently
  • and cross-functionally, and you'll mentor junior engineers on security
  • fundamentals. You’ll have the opportunity to implement DLP where needed as well
  • as secure AI as it develops and is used to drive business function.
  • As a senior team member, you'll help build functionality for a high-scale,
  • growing customer base, collaborate with diverse security professionals, address
  • unique security challenges, participate in on-call rotations, and respond to
  • critical incidents.
  • employees, devices, and infrastructure, scaling them as the organization
  • grows
  • Expand SIEM and automation capabilities: build and tune detections, improve
  • alerting, and automate detection and reporting pipelines, including
  • prioritizing data ingestion and keeping systems healthy
  • Review and govern MCP and AI agent integrations, set controls for AI-assisted
  • coding environments, and define policy for autonomous AI tooling across the
  • company
  • Secure SaaS applications and internal systems through policy design, control
  • enforcement, and configuration hardening
  • Lead security activities across the enterprise stack, including vulnerability
  • testing and analysis, security event investigation, and evaluation of new
  • tools and technologies to reduce business risk
  • Serve as a key decision maker on internal product and system deployments, and
  • ensure teams build in line with security policy and best practice
  • Act as a secondary resource for adjacent domains, (AppSec, compliance, cloud
  • security, system security) in a fast-moving environment
  • Participate in an on-call rotation and partner with IT, Devops, Escalations,
  • and other members of security to respond to critical incidents and
  • escalations
  • Experience maintaining corporate MDM on macbooks, and mobile devices
  • Experience in scripting and light coding
  • Investigate and respond to malware, social engineering, and phishing
  • independently
  • This role is a key decision maker regarding internal product and system
  • deployments
  • Mature our Zero Trust environment and serve as the subject-matter expert on
  • proxy, network, and VPN considerations

Qualification

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  • 5+ years of Security Engineering experience with a strong focus on enterprise
  • security, network security, endpoint security
  • 4+ years of experience working in a corporate security
  • organization/environment with hands on, technical, user facing implementation
  • Prior experience working as a technical authority in a team environment, deep
  • hands-on technical expertise, not just admin-level familiarity. You
  • understand how the technology works internally and what goes on behind the
  • scenes
  • Professional experience with the modern tech stack and protecting SaaS
  • applications. Direct technical and hands on experience with securing Email,
  • Mac endpoints, IAM ( okta and Gsuite ), Crowdstrike EDR, SOAR, Enterprise
  • networking security ( both endpoint and infra ), and Forensics
  • Past experience conducting end-to-end security reviews of SaaS applications,
  • Data access and movement,  Technical architecture, authentication and
  • authorization controls, and contractual security requirements, to ensure
  • third-party tools meet organizational security standards
  • Past experience leading the design, implementation, and continuous tuning of
  • security programs across laptop endpoint and networks; leading policy
  • development, incident triage, data classification alignment, and
  • cross-functional collaboration to prevent unauthorized exfiltration of
  • sensitive data
  • A self-starter with great communication and organizational skills
  • Cloud security experience
  • Technical Security Certifications that delve deeper than high level concepts
  • Experience with being a foundational security engineer and/or building a new
  • security team ground up
  • For candidates based in the United States, the pay range for this position at
  • the start of employment is expected to be between $128,900 and $180,000/year
  • with an expected On Target Earnings (OTE) between $143,200 and $200,000/year
  • (including bonus or commission). Your exact offer may vary depending on multiple
  • individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge,
  • skills, and experience. In addition to cash compensation, this role qualifies
  • for a comprehensive Total Rewards package that includes equity grants of
  • restricted stock (RSUs) so that you will own a piece of our company.

Benefits

  • Braze benefits vary by location, and we encourage you to review our specific
  • From offering comprehensive benefits to fostering hybrid ways of working, we've
  • got you covered so you can prioritize work-life harmony. Braze offers benefits
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision, life, and
  • disability
  • Family services that include fertility benefits and equal paid parental leave
  • Professional development supported by formal career pathing, learning
  • platforms, and a yearly learning stipend
  • A curated in-office employee experience, designed to foster community, team
  • connections, and innovation
  • Opportunities to give back to your community, including an annual
  • company-wide Volunteer Week and donation matching
  • Employee Resource Groups that provide supportive communities within Braze
  • Collaborative, transparent, and fun culture recognized as a Great Place to
  • Braze is the leading customer engagement platform that empowers brands to Be
  • Absolutely Engaging™ Braze helps brands deliver great customer experiences that
  • drive value both for consumers and for their businesses. Built on a foundation
  • of composable intelligence, BrazeAI™ allows marketers to combine and activate AI
  • agents, models, and features at every touchpoint throughout the Braze Customer
  • Engagement Platform for smarter, faster, and more meaningful customer
  • engagement. From cross-channel messaging and journey orchestration to Al-powered
  • decisioning and optimization, Braze enables companies to turn action into
  • interaction through autonomous, 1:1 personalized experiences.
  • The company has repeatedly been recognized as a Leader in marketing technology
  • by industry analysts, and was voted a G2 “Best of Marketing and Digital
  • Advertising Software Product” in 2025.
  • Braze was also named a 2025 Best Companies To Work For by U.S. News and World
  • Report, a 2025 America’s Greatest Companies by Newsweek, and a 2025 Fortune Best
  • Workplace in Technology™ by Great Place To Work®, among other accolades. Braze
  • is also proudly certified as a Great Place to Work® in the U.S., the UK,
  • Australia, and Singapore.
  • The company is headquartered in New York with offices in Austin, Berlin,
  • Bucharest, Chicago, Dubai, Jakarta, London, Paris, San Francisco, São Paulo,
  • Singapore, Seoul, Sydney and Tokyo.
  • At Braze, we strive to create equitable growth and opportunities inside and
  • outside the organization.
  • Building meaningful connections is at the heart of everything we do, and that
  • includes our recruiting practices. We're committed to offering all candidates a
  • fair, accessible, and inclusive experience – regardless of age, color,
  • We know that sometimes different circumstances can lead talented people to
  • hesitate to apply for a role unless they meet 100% of the criteria. If this
  • sounds familiar, we encourage you to apply, as we’d love to meet you
  • At Braze, we’re committed to a fair and transparent candidate experience. To
  • help our recruitment teams focus on what matters most — the person behind each
  • This includes using AI to analyze the experience, skills and qualifications in
  • your application materials to help with screening and prioritizing candidates.
  • Such screening may amount to a form of solely automated decision-making. We also
  • use AI for administrative support, like scheduling and recording interviews and
  • summarizing interview notes. Our recruiting teams remain responsible for all
  • hiring decisions and are involved throughout the process.
  • Depending on where you are located, you may have certain rights available to you
  • To opt out of AI-assisted review of your application, please click the “Learn
  • More” at the end of the application form below and follow the instructions
  • before submitting your application. Please note, if you apply to multiple
  • roles at Braze, you will need to opt out in relation to each application.
  • To exercise other types of rights, such as rights to request further
  • information about how AI is used in our recruitment process, to request a
  • retroactive manual review of any decision made or to contest a decision,
  • please contact us at talentdata.privacy@braze.com
  • [talentdata.privacy@braze.com].
  • Please contact us at talentdata.privacy@braze.com [talentdata.privacy@braze.com]
  • with any questions. To find out more about our hiring process, check out this
  • page [https://www.braze.com/company/careers/how-we-hire].
  • Notice Regarding Automated Employment Decision Tool (NYC Local Law 144)
  • Our use of AI during the application review process may include the use of
  • automated employment decision tools. Pursuant to New York City Local Law 144,
  • for roles based in New York City, or if you reside in New York City, you have
  • the right to request an alternative selection process or a reasonable
  • accommodation instead of AI-assisted review.
  • To opt out of AI-assisted review of your application, please click the “Learn
  • More” button below and follow the instructions before submitting your
  • application. Please note, if you apply to multiple roles at Braze, you will need
  • to opt out in relation to each application. Please submit any other request to
  • our Talent Acquisition team at talentdata.privacy@braze.com
  • [talentdata.privacy@braze.com] promptly after applying. Summaries of the most
  • recent bias audit results for such tools are available here
  • Policy [https://www.braze.com/company/legal/privacy-policy-job-candidates] for
  • more information on how Braze processes your personal information during the
  • recruitment process and, if applicable based on your location, how you can
  • exercise any privacy rights.

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