Top Remote Cyber Security Jobs in San Luis Obispo, CA

Partner with sales teams to design and deliver technical demonstrations and evaluations for data security solutions. Gather requirements, configure custom product setups, lead hands-on evaluations, and guide customers to successful outcomes in strategic enterprise opportunities.

Assess and harden software supply chain security by performing technical assessments, designing and implementing security controls and monitoring for build pipelines, investigating systems for vulnerabilities, creating tooling to address gaps, and leading cross-team projects to improve CrowdStrike's product security posture.

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.

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.

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.

As a Security Engineer, you will conduct security assessments, develop security tools, perform architecture reviews, and collaborate on advanced security research.

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.

Lead product security across the SDLC: threat modeling, secure architecture, vulnerability management, security testing and remediation, CI/CD/DevSecOps controls, AI security integration, bug bounty triage, developer training, and cross-functional security consulting to scale secure-by-design practices.

Lead and grow a security engineering team to design and operate cloud-native security controls, drive DevSecOps practices, conduct threat modeling and incident response, partner cross-functionally on security roadmaps, and ensure compliance with frameworks (NIST, SOC 2, ISO, etc.). Responsible for vulnerability management, identity and access controls, observability/SIEM, and security automation.

Perform 24/7 SOC monitoring and incident response across networks, endpoints, cloud and SaaS; triage, investigate, and remediate incidents; collaborate with vulnerability management, FedRAMP, and engineering teams; refine detection/playbooks; maintain incident documentation and SOC processes; support FedRAMP-related security and privacy responsibilities and periodic background investigations.

Build and maintain Ruby on Rails backend features for vulnerability management, including security dashboards, reports, and ingestion pipelines. Improve system performance, reliability, and scalability; collaborate across backend, frontend, product, design, and security teams; review code; address technical debt; and participate in on-call rotations. The role requires relational database experience, distributed-team collaboration, technical problem-solving, and contributions across the stack when needed.

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, implement, and support enterprise identity and access management using Microsoft Entra. Build controls for Conditional Access, MFA, identity governance, privileged access, authentication modernization, and Zero Trust. Develop PowerShell automation for identity lifecycle and governance, partner with technical and business teams, improve security operations, and mentor engineers. The role also includes on-call participation and occasional after-hours work.

Serves as the senior technical authority for enterprise browser data protection and security. Owns architecture, roadmap, standards, lifecycle, browser-based DLP controls, integrations, automation, and operational support. Leads complex troubleshooting, major incident response, root-cause analysis, runbook development, and continuous improvement. Partners across cybersecurity, identity, endpoint, network, cloud, risk, compliance, and vendor teams while mentoring engineers and influencing enterprise security design.

Leads enterprise AI tooling and security engineering, designing scalable cloud platforms and secure AI applications. Responsibilities include protecting models, agents, prompts, data, APIs, and outputs; securing the AI/ML lifecycle; implementing identity, encryption, monitoring, threat detection, adversarial testing, and incident response; and establishing engineering standards. The role mentors engineers, influences architecture and technology strategy, and partners with governance, risk, compliance, and business teams to support responsible AI adoption.

Leads enterprise AI tooling and security strategy, building secure cloud-native platforms and protecting AI models, agents, prompts, data, APIs, and outputs. Designs controls for identity, access, encryption, monitoring, threat detection, adversarial testing, governance, and incident response. Provides distinguished technical leadership, mentors engineers, establishes engineering standards, and partners across architecture, security, governance, risk, compliance, and business teams.

Build and operate security log pipelines, SIEM detections, endpoint controls, security automation, and internal tooling across AWS, macOS, Windows, CI/CD, and infrastructure repositories. Develop primarily in Python, implement Terraform-based infrastructure and policy-as-code safeguards, integrate security tools through APIs, and embed scanning and secrets detection into developer workflows. Own the reliability and coverage of security platforms while independently driving projects and implementing fixes directly in systems managed by other teams.

Own AWS cloud security posture and vulnerability management using Wiz and AWS-native services. Build Infrastructure as Code guardrails, secure CI/CD pipelines, automate vulnerability workflows, and operate WAF protections. Partner with DevOps and engineering on IAM, network segmentation, containers, secrets, data exposure, telemetry, threat modeling, and application security. Drive projects independently while reducing organizational risk.

Staff Security Engineer partners with Product, Engineering, and DevOps to embed security into application architecture, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD processes. Responsibilities include secure design and code review, vulnerability remediation, AWS cloud security, WAF tuning, security automation in Python, SIEM and log pipeline contributions, endpoint controls, and security standards. The role requires deep expertise in application security, cloud security, or security automation, plus threat modeling and independent project ownership.

Supports application security across product and engineering teams by reviewing code, configurations, pull requests, logs, and system designs; identifying and prioritizing vulnerabilities; guiding remediation; and contributing scripts, tooling, detections, tests, and secure coding practices. The role also involves vulnerability management, risk-based analysis, security communication, and collaboration across engineering, infrastructure, compliance, and product teams.

Lead detection, response, and digital forensics for security incidents. Monitor alerts, perform technical analysis, act as Incident Commander, build automation and runbooks, mentor engineers, and coordinate cross-team investigations and insider threat work.