Top Remote Cyber Security Jobs in Washington, DC

Support day-to-day GRC operations: assess third-party vendors, maintain vendor risk register, track remediation and control evidence, assist with internal control testing and audits (SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS), maintain policies, prepare reporting, and contribute to process improvements.

Senior security engineer responsible for developing automation and tooling, building and deploying security solutions, conducting incident response and proactive threat hunting, supporting investigations through data analysis, and advising development teams. Must document solutions, participate in agile teams, mentor juniors, and continuously research evolving security threats.

Lead Zapiers security strategy for an AI-native SaaS platform. Own App and Infrastructure Security, Detection & Response, GRC, risk management, incident response, bug bounty triage, and enterprise security enablement. Partner with Product, Engineering, Legal, and GTM to embed secure-by-default design, shape AI-specific controls, support enterprise deals, and build a high-performing security engineering organization.

Lead assessment and mitigation of security risks in the virtualization stack. Build threat models, rubrics, and defenses; partner with kernel, virtualization, and provisioning teams to design and implement mitigations; mentor engineers, manage vulnerability backlog, and promote security best practices across product teams.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud security controls for Vercel's platform. Harden infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code and policy enforcement, secure CI/CD pipelines, perform threat modeling and risk analysis, improve monitoring and incident response, and build platform-level security tooling in collaboration with platform and infrastructure teams.

Own and define IAM strategy for corporate and production environments. Migrate Okta to Terraform, design least-privilege access, automate provisioning/deprovisioning and access reviews, build/manage MDM/MAM tooling, partner with platform and engineering teams, and serve as the IAM subject matter expert across Security, IT, and Engineering.

Design, maintain, and extend abuse detection and prevention systems for GitLab's SaaS platform. Serve as a core maintainer of a Ruby on Rails monolith, build anomaly detection and agentic AI mitigations, automate abuse response, collaborate with peer engineering and security teams, and produce runbooks and operational documentation.

Build developer-facing security services and tools, partner with engineering teams through the SSDLC to threat model and review code, and contribute to security automation (static analysis, vulnerability management, asset inventory) to help Cedar scale secure patient-facing products.

Lead multi-year product strategy for non-human identity and access across MongoDB Atlas, core database, and developer platforms. Drive workload identity federation, programmatic access, AI agent authorization, and developer-first access management. Partner with engineering, UX, and GTM to validate enterprise requirements, prioritize initiatives, and measure adoption. Represent MongoDB externally and mentor PMs to elevate product quality.

Lead applied research on agentic AI for cybersecurity: develop efficient post-trained models, agent designs, and rigorous evaluation/verification. Partner with security teams to translate research into products, run experiments, and publish novel techniques.

Perform deep security analysis of endpoint products and sensors: threat modeling, source-code review, exploit-style testing (including kernel components), reproduce/validate bug bounty findings, collaborate with developers to fix vulnerabilities, and build tooling/automation to improve security workflows.

Lead application security for products by performing threat modeling, manual secure code reviews, and penetration testing. Collaborate with engineers to remediate defects, build AppSec automation and tooling, secure cloud/containerized applications, and drive bug-bounty responses to harden platform security.

Perform application security assessments across CrowdStrike products: threat modeling, code review, penetration testing, and secure design guidance. Build automation and tooling, respond to bug bounty reports, and collaborate with engineering to remediate defects and harden cloud-native, containerized applications.

Lead technical marketing for Falcon Secure Access by creating demos, labs, workshops, and technical content that translate secure access, browser security, Zero Trust, and AI security capabilities into market-facing messaging, sales enablement, and go-to-market strategy. Collaborate cross-functionally to drive adoption and competitive differentiation.

Lead technical security strategy and implementation for Managed Services platforms. Design and improve security controls, IAM, PAM, vulnerability management, incident response, and compliance. Embed secure-by-design and DevSecOps practices, mentor engineers, and partner with architecture, engineering, and operations to reduce risk and enable scalable growth.

Partner with sales to design and present data security solutions for SLED customers. Lead technical evaluations, gather requirements, build test plans, configure proof-of-concepts, and guide customers to successful outcomes while collaborating across GTM teams.

Lead AI security strategy and guardrails, design and review AI gateways and tooling, scale InfoSec review processes, reduce AI-driven security noise, drive remediation and investigations, and mentor security and platform engineers.

Design, implement, and maintain security controls across cloud (AWS) and on-prem systems. Lead vulnerability management, incident response, and remediation. Serve as SME for SIEM, SAST/DAST, IAM. Embed security in SDLC, support SOC 2/ISO 27001 audit readiness, mentor junior engineers, and recommend control improvements.

Lead MSSP-focused sales to recruit, enable, and grow managed security provider partners. Drive joint services, partner-led customer adoption, revenue attainment, forecasting, and cross-team issue resolution while meeting quotas and pipeline targets.

Lead and grow an enterprise Sales Engineering team in the Northeast, recruit and coach SEs, collaborate cross-functionally, drive technical sales campaigns and escalations, maintain AW platform knowledge, engage prospects and executives, and represent Arctic Wolf publicly at events.

The role involves leading security initiatives, building security tools, conducting vulnerability assessments, and collaborating with teams to enhance cloud security and risk management.

Lead research to detect Windows threats and develop sensor/telemetry capabilities. Collaborate with engineering and product teams to implement detections, investigate false positives/negatives, apply AI to research workflows, produce technical documentation, and mentor others while promoting the company externally.

Lead and grow a product research team focused on defensive cybersecurity research. Own technical and managerial leadership, collaborate with Product, SOC, and Engineering, scale automated threat-detection workflows using AI, and mentor researchers to deliver prioritized platform capabilities.

Perform hands-on application and system security assessments: discover and validate vulnerabilities, develop proof-of-concepts and custom tooling, conduct threat modeling and architecture reviews, and communicate clear remediation guidance to clients while contributing to security research.

Serve as a senior embedded cybersecurity consultant across the customer lifecycle: secure technical wins in pre-sales, run POVs, advise C-level and technical stakeholders, design cyber skills programs and crisis simulations, drive platform adoption and roadmaps, operationalize Immersive One with metrics and EBRs, and act as the customer liaison to sales, product, and engineering to improve cyber workforce resilience.