Top Remote Cyber Security Jobs in Washington, DC

Build Tempo’s product security program from the ground up, including application, infrastructure, endpoint, and supply-chain security tooling. Identify and remediate production and development-pipeline risks, lead incident response through post-mortems, conduct secure design reviews, and establish scalable security practices. The role requires hands-on coding, deep incident-response expertise, strong infrastructure and application-security knowledge, and autonomous collaboration with engineering.

Lead AppSec efforts across product, platform, and AI features by owning secure SDLC, performing threat modeling and deep code reviews, driving vulnerability management and remediation, building AppSec tooling and automations (including AI-assisted workflows), and enabling engineering teams with secure design guidance and training.

Own Fetch’s information security function, including vulnerability management, application security, incident response, forensics, security architecture, GRC, compliance, third-party risk, AI governance, and security awareness. Serve as incident commander and senior technical authority, mature the security program, lead audits and executive reporting, manage security risks, and hire and develop the Security Engineering team.

Designs and executes application security practices across product and platform engineering teams. Responsibilities include integrating SAST, DAST, SCA, secret, IaC, API, mobile, container, and cloud-native security into CI/CD; conducting secure design reviews, threat modeling, code reviews, and testing; building automation, guardrails, policy-as-code, release risk gates, secure coding standards, SBOM processes, and vulnerability disclosure workflows.

Participate in a paid, part-time cybersecurity internship involving technical development, security response, collaborative projects, shadowing, vendor training, and certifications. Complete in-house training while working with cybersecurity experts. Interns must be U.S.-based, available primarily during weekday EST hours, attend mandatory Tampa onboarding, provide a personal computer and reliable internet, and demonstrate foundational IT, networking, operating systems, and information security knowledge.

Lead Coinbase's global IT and security audit program, delivering complex cross-functional audits across cloud, infrastructure, cybersecurity, IAM, data protection, and third-party risk. Manage and develop a global audit team, partner with first- and second-line stakeholders to drive integrated assurance, and report executive-level findings to senior leadership and the Audit Committee. Modernize audit execution through data analytics, automation, and generative AI to enable continuous monitoring and automated evidence retrieval.

The CISO will develop and manage the Bank's information security programs, ensuring compliance and protecting customer data while mitigating risks. They will also lead a security team, oversee third-party risk, and promote a culture of security awareness across the organization.

Implements, supports, and optimizes SIEM, SOAR, security telemetry, and data pipelines. Responsibilities include log onboarding, parsing, normalization, detection rule development and tuning, data quality validation, troubleshooting, automation, architecture review support, documentation, and continuous improvement. The engineer works in a client-facing consulting environment under senior guidance and supports multiple security operations platforms and environments.

Lead IT security architect responsible for AWS security architecture, compliance (NIST 800-171/CMMC), and GovCloud IL5/IL6 deployments. Maintain SSP, POA&Ms, evidence, and remediation tracking; coordinate with auditors and customer ISSM/ISSO; partner with DevSecOps and Engineering to implement secure baselines, logging, monitoring, encryption, segmentation, vulnerability management, and incident response for regulated environments.

Validate, reproduce, and triage vulnerability reports for web and mobile applications; assess severity and impact using CVSS and security frameworks; communicate findings and remediation to customers and researchers; leverage automation/AI workflows; collaborate cross-functionally and improve triage processes. Weekend shifts required occasionally.

Lead security configuration and implementation for Oracle EBS Finance modules, perform security and control reviews, support Risk Management controls (AAC, Advanced Financials Controls), run design/fit-gap workshops, assist SIT/UAT/Go-Live and post-implementation support, work with onsite/offshore teams, and apply SafePaaS and other tools to evaluate controls, segregation of duties, and optimization.

Provide administrative support for information security compliance programs (ISO 27001, SOC 2, CMMC). Assist Director of Compliance with audit preparation, evidence collection, documentation management, tracking remediation, scheduling and coordinating meetings, and preparing status updates. Maintain control matrices, evidence folders, calendars, and trackers to keep compliance activities organized and on schedule.

Embed application security across the SDLC: identify and remediate web/API vulnerabilities, perform threat modeling and risk assessments, automate monitoring and remediation, analyze logs for anomalies, support compliance and federal security authorization activities.

The Product Security Engineer partners with Engineering and Product teams to embed security throughout the development lifecycle. Responsibilities include threat modeling, architecture and security reviews, vulnerability validation, remediation planning, security-tool ownership, automation, secure coding guidance, incident response, and assessing risks in cloud and AI-enabled products. The role requires strong application security, identity, authentication, authorization, coding, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Serves as the endpoint security subject-matter expert for support, Sales Engineering, and Customer Success. Diagnoses complex Windows and macOS endpoint issues, analyzes telemetry and logs, troubleshoots integrations with EDR, DLP, and MDM products, and provides prioritized customer recommendations. Partners with Engineering and QA on defect investigation and validation, maintains lab capabilities, and creates runbooks and documentation. The role also enables field teams to explain endpoint findings and improve customer outcomes.

Own Tribe’s corporate security, compliance, AI governance, and client-facing security programs. Lead SOC 2 and future certification efforts, enterprise security reviews, risk management, security controls, incident response, vendor risk, and Trust Center operations. Establish governance for AI agents, assistants, model providers, and subprocessors while partnering with engineering on architecture reviews, threat modeling, secure SDLC, data flows, and production readiness. Translate customer requirements into scalable security controls and operating processes.

Serve as the senior network-security subject-matter expert for support, sales engineering, and customer success. Review firewall rules, segmentation, controls, and product findings; troubleshoot integrations across enterprise network-security platforms; diagnose issues using packet captures, flow data, logs, and protocol behavior; and provide actionable root-cause guidance. Partner with Engineering and QA on defects and fixes, maintain network test capabilities, and author runbooks and documentation. Coach sales engineers and help harden the product through escalations and feedback.

Optimize Microsoft security operations by tuning Sentinel detections, reducing false positives, designing alert and incident-response automation, integrating Defender products and third-party telemetry, improving SOC workflows, and developing investigation playbooks, runbooks, and documentation. This hands-on 3–4 month contract requires strong Sentinel and Defender expertise, advanced KQL, Logic Apps, SOAR automation, SIEM engineering, and security operations optimization experience.

Build and maintain cloud security improvements across AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, and CI/CD environments. Design detection and response capabilities using SIEM, EDR/MDR, cloud-native detections, and CNAPP tools. Investigate and respond to security incidents end to end, develop detection logic and playbooks, and create security tooling and automations using Python, Terraform, and infrastructure-as-code. The role also supports endpoint security and secure DevOps practices.

Lead Fireworks AI’s security operations function, including CrowdStrike deployment, detection engineering, incident response, SOAR workflows, threat intelligence, playbooks, metrics, and cross-functional incident coordination. Build and tune detections, operationalize response processes, run post-incident reviews, and improve coverage against MITRE ATT&CK. The role begins as a hands-on individual contributor and may grow into team leadership, including hiring and expanding 24/7 coverage and capabilities such as cloud detection engineering and red/purple team operations.

Monitor and investigate security alerts, logs, threats, vulnerabilities, and incidents. Conduct vulnerability assessments, support penetration testing and cloud security reviews, assist with incident response, recommend remediation, and prepare technical and executive reports. Collaborate with security consultants, engineers, red teamers, and client IT teams while supporting compliance, hardening, patch management, and security monitoring across cloud and enterprise environments.

Operate and improve cybersecurity tools and processes across cloud, endpoint, identity, application, email, network, data loss prevention, and vulnerability management environments. Respond to alerts and incidents, manage logging and SIEM telemetry, implement security controls aligned with HITRUST, NIST, CIS, HIPAA, and OWASP, support audits, and develop incident response procedures. Collaborate with a Senior Security Engineer and use AI tools to automate security operations.

Own and mature Neumo’s Governance, Risk, and Compliance program, including SOC 1, SOC 2, and PCI DSS audits, risk registers, data governance, control automation, vendor assessments, and exception processes. Manage 1–2 direct reports, coordinate remediation, leverage AI/LLM tools, participate in incident management, and communicate compliance posture and risk trends to executives and the board.

Leads security operations and engineering strategy, manages a 2–3-person team, and remains hands-on with WAF, DLP, AI security, automation, vulnerability management, incident response, cloud security, purple teaming, SIEM, and detection engineering. Partners with executives and cross-functional leaders, oversees vendors and tooling, reports risk metrics, and develops team capabilities and security roadmaps.

Lead security assessments and controls across cloud-hosted applications, APIs, mobile (Flutter), CI/CD, and infrastructure. Implement and harden shared security tooling (dependency/secret/static/container scanning), review IAM and privileged access, support incident readiness and monitoring, evaluate SRE/recovery changes for security impact, and coordinate remediation with system owners. Establish security policies, automation, and review triggers to integrate practical controls into engineering workflows.