Top Remote Cyber Security Jobs in San Diego, CA

Conducts independent cybersecurity assessments of MARAD information systems across authorization, reauthorization, and continuous monitoring activities. Evaluates management, operational, and technical controls under NIST RMF; develops assessment plans, reports, risk assessments, and remediation recommendations; validates evidence and system compliance; supports ATO decisions; enters data into CSAM; and collaborates with federal cybersecurity stakeholders.

Designs, implements, and operates Azure-native security controls for identity, networking, and workloads. Manages Defender for Cloud and Microsoft Sentinel, implements Conditional Access, MFA, and Zero Trust patterns, embeds security into Infrastructure-as-Code pipelines, monitors cloud posture, supports incident response, drives remediation, and maintains compliance documentation and metrics. Partners with cloud and infrastructure security teams to ensure secure, resilient, and compliant Azure environments.

The AI Security Consultant will enhance security programs, secure AI systems, engage in technical analysis, and report findings. They will also contribute to thought leadership while ensuring high-quality service delivery.

Leads Carina’s cloud infrastructure, internal IT, cybersecurity, risk management, compliance, and business continuity programs. Oversees AWS platform operations, infrastructure as code, deployment reliability, observability, incident response, disaster recovery, employee technology, identity systems, vendors, budgets, and governance. Advises executives on technology strategy, security posture, operational risk, and investments while partnering with Engineering and Data to provide a secure, reliable technology foundation.

Lead security engineering for a federal health supply chain and logistics software product line. Own security architecture through authorization, establish engineering standards, assess and remediate complex findings, advise stakeholders on risk, and mentor engineers. The role requires federal security framework expertise, cloud security experience, cross-team remediation leadership, and eligibility for a Public Trust background investigation. Preferred experience includes federal health IT, ATO packages, Kubernetes security, incident response, HIPAA, and Agile or SAFe environments.

Secure federal health IT supply-chain and logistics software by designing and validating application and infrastructure controls, assessing vulnerabilities, driving remediation, embedding security checks into CI/CD pipelines, monitoring security tools, supporting incident response, and translating federal security requirements into implementable technical designs.

Designs and engineers secure network and cloud architectures across AWS, GCP, Azure, and physical data centers. Responsibilities include threat modeling, network segmentation, monitoring, alerting, automation, attack-surface reduction, and secure connection patterns. The role drives strategic security improvements, partners with product and infrastructure teams, communicates architectural decisions, and mentors engineers. Candidates need deep hybrid networking and cloud security expertise, protocol knowledge, scripting ability, independent problem-solving skills, and strong communication.

Owner of Vannevar's authentication and authorization platform: build tenant-isolated auth systems, self-service user/group/permission admin UI, tooling to visualize and validate access, feature-flag and platform management interfaces, and shared authorization capabilities across products.

Lead and mature Affirm's third-party security risk program by designing controls, automating GRC workflows, evaluating third-party/cloud security, building integrations and dashboards, and advising stakeholders. Drive automation using Python and agentic coding tools, operate orchestration across systems, manage a portfolio of risk reviews, and establish metrics, processes, and reporting to scale security risk management.

The Security Engineer will manage Liftoff's SIEM, lead the adoption of AI-augmented SOC tools, triage alerts, and improve incident response processes while collaborating on various security functions.

Lead and grow a Security Platform engineering team to design and operate centralized identity and access services (IdP integrations, SSO, authorization frameworks). Define roadmap, partner cross-functionally, and drive adoption of secure-by-default access controls across products.

The Senior Embedded Security Engineer will enhance the security of the flight software for space vehicles, ensuring high standards for safety and secure coding practices throughout the development lifecycle.

Manages enterprise information security governance, risk, and compliance initiatives. Develops security policies and frameworks, leads data classification and threat modeling, conducts risk assessments, oversees vulnerability remediation, evaluates security controls, supports audits, and prepares risk metrics and executive reports. Partners with technical teams to embed security requirements and promotes governance best practices across the organization.

Protect Air Force modernization efforts by assessing legacy and modernized applications, conducting security audits and risk analyses, implementing RMF, ATO, and cATO processes, authoring security controls and authorization evidence, researching emerging threats, and coaching government engineering teams on secure software development and compliance.

Own security partnerships for Customer Service and Creative Technology. Advise on GenAI and GenMedia security, customer data environments, cloud infrastructure, third-party tools, training data governance, and risk treatment. Build business risk profiles, drive remediation, report security posture, and support technical security due diligence for acquisitions and subsidiaries.

Leads and matures the information security assurance program across governance, control frameworks, audits, regulatory response, PCI DSS, third-party risk, policy governance, security awareness, automation, and executive reporting. Manages a multidisciplinary team, oversees GRC platform operations, improves control testing and evidence collection, and partners with business, technology, regulators, auditors, and senior leadership to strengthen security posture and compliance.

The Security Compliance Analyst manages cybersecurity, data privacy, classification, retention, governance, vulnerability assessments, incident response, and ATO documentation. Responsibilities include monitoring cloud environments and system logs, using SIEM tools, analyzing security risks, supporting security policies, reporting incidents, and ensuring compliance throughout the system lifecycle. The role also collaborates with Agile teams and stakeholders to protect sensitive data and resolve information assurance issues.

Leads enterprise security architecture for commercial banking and payments, developing secure, scalable strategies across cloud, infrastructure, applications, data, and security platforms. Establishes architecture standards and reference patterns, embeds security into software development and CI/CD, advises on regulatory and risk requirements, and guides cloud modernization, identity, API, container, and data security initiatives. Partners with architects, engineering, DevOps, SRE, security, business, and executive stakeholders to influence technology decisions in a highly matrixed organization.

Lead Uber’s highest-severity security incidents from escalation through containment, recovery, and remediation. Command response teams, make high-consequence decisions, investigate logs and system data, brief executives, conduct post-incident analysis, mentor responders, and improve incident response through simulations, threat modeling, automation, and AI-assisted tooling.

Lead GitLab’s Security Posture Management team within Product Security. Drive governed security capability rollouts across the software estate, establish secure configuration baselines, build software supply chain security, manage risk registers and posture metrics, support audit evidence, and provide customer-zero feedback to Product and Engineering. Hire, coach, and develop the team while representing GitLab’s security practices externally and driving measurable risk reduction in a remote, asynchronous environment.

Leads Forward’s application and product security program, including a team of senior engineers, penetration testing, vulnerability remediation, secure SDLC practices, and AI security. Owns testing standards, remediation workflows, exposure controls, pre-production security reviews, and security services. Partners with Engineering and executives to communicate risk and priorities while securing web applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and AI-built software.

Secure LLMs, generative AI systems, ML infrastructure, training pipelines, and AI applications. Responsibilities include threat modeling, architecture reviews, security controls, hardening, vulnerability remediation, data privacy, incident response runbooks, vendor reviews, governance, policy development, and AI security training. The role also supports proof-of-concept security solutions and monitors emerging AI threats.

Lead application security engineering across the SDLC using AI-assisted threat modeling, automated security testing, vulnerability prioritization, and secure-by-default controls. Partner with Engineering, Product, QA, DevOps, and AI platform teams to secure applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, data, and AI/ML systems. Build security automation, CI/CD controls, policy-as-code guardrails, developer enablement, and proactive defenses against emerging threats such as prompt injection and data poisoning.

Design and lead secure AI security solutions for enterprise customers across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Conduct technical discovery, architect integrations spanning AI systems, LLM applications, data pipelines, model layers, and runtime environments, and support presales validations and implementations. Serve as a technical advisor to CISOs and security leaders while partnering with Sales, Product, and R&D to guide deployments, resolve escalations, and influence product strategy.

Designs, builds, operates, and integrates workforce identity and access management solutions for employees, contractors, and partners. Responsibilities include federated authentication, provisioning and deprovisioning, identity governance, compliance, access management, vendor integrations, acquisition-related migrations, solution rollout, and cloud-based service operation. The role requires hands-on IAM expertise, strong communication, programming familiarity, CI/CD experience, and AWS experience.