Security Engineer
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Job Location:
Mountain View, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
3 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Our customers depend on the secure and reliable operation of the DNAnexus platform to run their business. From clinical research to large-scale multi-omics computation our platform is essential to tackle some of the most exciting opportunities in human health. With DNAnexus organizations can stay a step ahead in leveraging genomics to achieve their goals. DNAnexus brings it all together on a single secure resilient and scalable platform.
Key Company Highlights
- Founded in 2009 by leading Stanford genomic scientists headquartered in Mountain View CA 140 employees.
- Generating significant revenue global footprint ramping rapidly; with Enterprise customers including Ancestry Regeneron Natera Johns Hopkins FDA Myriad Genetics St Jude among others.
- FedRAMP Moderate ATO (Authorized-To-Operate) platform with current certifications in ISO27001 and HITRUST.
- Engaged on a 5 year $20M contract with the FDA to power the precisionFDA collaborative omics environment in the cloud.
- Well funded by Tier-1 investors including Blackstone Group Foresite Capital Google Ventures Perceptive Advisors Northpond Ventures and TPG Capital among others.
- Massive evolving market opportunity that hasnt been adequately addressed yet.
- Passionate and proven executive leadership team with deep genomics big data/analytics and cloud expertise.
The role
You will be an essential part of our Security Engineering team and a critical player within our larger Security & Technology organization. Through close collaboration with Product Management Engineering IT and Detection & Response colleagues you will help address security concerns in our codebase code pipelines and cloud environments. You will help threat model systems remediate vulnerabilities and conduct security testing to make DNAnexus products more resilient reliable and secure. You will also have a key role in our incident response process by responding to incidents and providing control recommendations to prevent fraud on our order to be successful a close understanding of how Software Engineering works and empathy with your colleagues will be crucial. As a security team we strive to solve problems with an engineering mindset and with a strong understanding of the business context.
The problems you will solve:
- You will help design build and tune security tooling that improves security of code and CI/CD pipelines while maintaining code deployment velocity.
- You will help design implement and maintain scalable security controls for our cloud environments without impacting deployment speeds and platform stability.
- You will help define implement and enforce our AI security policies and procedures.
- You will aid our Product Managers in developing secure and resilient product designs by addressing risks youve identified through threat modeling.
- You will help maintain our vulnerability management bug bounty and penetration testing programs
- Most importantly youll develop close collaborative relationships with other technical experts in our Product Platform Engineering Software Engineering IT and Detection & Response functions.
Qualifications :
The experience you will bring:
- A Bachelors of Science in computer science cyber security electrical engineering or a related field.
- You have a working proficiency with Python and are able to talk through examples of scripts youve written to solve problems.
- Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code is a plus.
- You are familiar with cloud-native infrastructure on AWS Azure GCP or OCI.
- You are comfortable with GitHub the CLI IDEs and understand the process of writing and deploying software.
- Familiarity with the CVE system and common application security risks like the OWASP Top 10.
- Familiarity with AI LLM models MCPs and agentic workflows as well as the ability to mitigate the associated risks they introduce.
- Familiarity with Agentic AI to accelerate security workflows and business outcomes.
- Strong fundamentals in software development networking and IT.
Personal Attributes and Values:
- A positive highly motivated can-do attitude paired with a high EQ a hunger to succeed and an eagerness to learn.
- Core to your approach is continual learning and self-development. You ask others to help with your learning and support them in their learning.
- You can extract lessons from failure and look at each project you undertake as an opportunity to improve and a fresh opportunity for success.
- A self starter that can work both independently and collaboratively across multiple workstreams.
- Flexible nimble and scrappy; startup mentality and willingness/ability to change direction quickly if best for the business.
- Complex problems intrigue you and you leverage creative problem solving skills as well as the ability to ignite the creativity of others to solve these problems.
- Able to earn the respect of the team on the basis of crisp execution technical competency and a hands-on style.
- Takes a data centric objective approach to decision making and has the ability to put aside personal preferences historical bias peer pressure and political influences to arrive at decisions on a reasoned objectively-defensible basis.
- High integrity principles and ethics.
Salary and Other Compensation:
The annual salary for this position is $145000- $165000 which includes a base and 5% bonus component. Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include geography/market skills education experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
Benefits:
The Company offers the following benefits for this position subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance dental insurance vision insurance 401(k) retirement plan life insurance long-term disability insurance short-term disability insurance flexible paid time off 12 weeks of paid parental leave and national holidays paid
Additional Information :
Headquartered in Mountain View California with over 220 team members across the United States and Europe DNAnexus is experiencing rapid growth and market adoption. With the support of leading investors including Google Ventures and Blackstone and trusted by hundreds of the worlds biomedical leaders the company is at the innovative forefront with our precision health data cloud to drive scientific breakthroughs. If you are interested in joining our team please apply today!
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Full-time
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About Company
DNAnexus is the enterprise platform for precision health. We are on a mission to accelerate the development, approval and delivery of personalized treatments.Building on 15 years of bioinformatics innovation and genomics expertise, DNAnexus provides the cloud platform that centralize ... View more
