Top Remote Cyber Security Jobs in Washington, DC

Build and lead product and application security efforts, partnering with Product and Engineering on secure design, development, code reviews, vulnerability discovery, and security guardrails. Develop AI-native security tooling and support incident response, vulnerability management, penetration testing, and security operations. Help establish secure development practices and scalable security systems across Headway’s platform.

Serve as an embedded security partner to business, product, data, and technology teams. Assess architectures, conduct threat reviews, develop secure-by-design patterns, guide SaaS and vendor selection, and translate security requirements into practical controls. Support identity, infrastructure, AI workflows, data strategy, M&A integrations, and automated guardrails while enabling teams through training and collaboration.

Manage Garner’s GRC and technical compliance program across SOC 2, HITRUST, ISO 27001, and HIPAA. Lead internal control testing, external audits, risk-register management, policy maintenance, trust-center operations, and executive compliance reporting. Partner with Engineering, Product, People, and Legal to improve controls and remediation. Use scripting, LLMs, and automation to scale GRC processes in a cloud-native environment.

Own application security for backend services, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and edge systems handling financial transactions. Responsibilities include validating red-team findings, assigning severity, hardening services, implementing WAF and rate-limiting defenses, creating automated security configuration checks, expanding pull-request security gates, reviewing architectures, managing attack-surface coverage, and evaluating security tools. The role also partners with engineers and Security Operations to drive effective remediation.

Own and execute the application security program, including SIEM management, threat detection, architecture and code reviews, vulnerability management, security testing, incident response, forensic investigations, and security tooling. Partner with engineering and infrastructure teams to remediate vulnerabilities, promote secure coding, develop training, and improve enterprise security through cloud, container, compliance, and monitoring practices.

The GRC Analyst manages third-party risk assessments, vendor due diligence, security policies, risk analysis, internal audits, and SOC 2 audit support. The role involves maintaining the GRC program, tracking findings, coordinating stakeholders, promoting security awareness, and using AI and machine learning to automate compliance processes. Candidates should have 1–2+ years of relevant experience, strong communication skills, and familiarity with risk methodologies, vendor assessments, policies, and compliance audits.

Own Deepgram’s privacy operations, security compliance, audit evidence, control mapping, security questionnaires, policies, and public trust documentation. Lead DPIAs, data-flow mapping, DSAR and deletion workflows, vendor reviews, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS audits. Partner with Engineering, Legal, Research, and Sales Engineering to verify technical claims, automate evidence collection, maintain accurate documentation, and translate privacy and AI regulations into practical requirements and enablement.

Supports customers using Rapid7’s Vector Command Red Team service through attack surface analysis, reconnaissance, OSINT, reporting, customer communications, and request prioritization. The role coordinates with Red Team, MDR, and MVM teams; conducts manual network and service reconnaissance; develops scripts to analyze attack surface data; monitors customer exposures; and performs entry-level external penetration testing. It also includes customer onboarding, monthly reporting, update calls, and translating technical security concepts for nontechnical stakeholders.

Conduct application security assessments, discover and validate vulnerabilities, analyze complex codebases, build custom security tooling, perform threat modeling and architecture reviews, and deliver actionable findings to clients. Independently own assessment workstreams, develop proof-of-concept exploits, communicate technical conclusions, review team work, and contribute to security research, open-source tools, and technical writing.

Build and lead a scalable application security and secure SDLC program across engineering teams. Establish policies, standards, tooling, vulnerability management, threat modeling, developer enablement, security champions, software supply-chain controls, and executive reporting. Partner with development, platform, DevOps, product, and leadership teams to integrate security into CI/CD, source control, build, release, and deployment workflows while supporting audits, advisories, incident response, and regulatory requirements.