Principal Security Engineer

The role

This Principal Security Engineer will strengthen and mature engineering security at Aiwyn. You will focus on securing the SaaS platform, development infrastructure, and software delivery systems through technical leadership and automation.

What you will do

• Improve security across CI/CD pipelines, build infrastructure, dependencies, and deployment processes.
• Own and improve vulnerability scanning and remediation capabilities.
• Partner with engineering teams to strengthen application, cloud, and infrastructure security.
• Lead threat modeling and security reviews for critical systems.
• Explore how emerging AI capabilities can improve security engineering.
• Partner with engineering leadership to identify gaps and establish security standards.
• Own security initiatives from design through implementation.

Required qualifications

• Strong engineering background in software, platform, infrastructure, or security engineering.
• Hands-on experience building and operating complex systems.
• Solid security fundamentals and practical experience improving security in software development, cloud infrastructure, or production environments.
• Experience with software delivery security, including CI/CD, vulnerability management, or supply chain security.
• Understanding of SaaS security, including protecting customer data, securing applications, and operating cloud-based services.
• AI-forward mindset with an interest in emerging AI security capabilities.
• Technical leadership and ownership to drive complex initiatives and collaborate across teams.

Nice to have

• Software supply chain security, including SLSA, SBOMs, artifact signing, or build provenance.
• Security scanning and remediation tooling, including SAST, SCA, and container scanning.
• Cloud-native security, particularly AWS and Kubernetes.
• Threat modeling, application security, identity, or secrets management.
• AI-powered security tooling and securing AI-assisted development workflows.
• Building or improving security engineering practices in a growing organization.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Stock options
• 401(k) matching
• Adventure Travel Stipend on each anniversary of employment

About the company

Aiwyn is a platform for modern Accounting Firms. They build technology to replace old accounting practice management systems.