Top Remote Cyber Security Jobs in Washington, DC

Build and lead Motive’s globally distributed SOC, owning detection engineering, 24/7 incident response, threat hunting, intelligence, security analytics, endpoint protection, cloud and workload monitoring, and AI-driven automation. Establish operating models, coverage strategies, runbooks, telemetry platforms, incident command processes, and measurable detection and response capabilities across corporate and production environments.

Own and mature the company’s DevSecOps and cloud security function. Responsibilities include implementing SOC 2 controls, automating compliance evidence, managing cloud security posture and runtime security, embedding security gates into CI/CD, leading vulnerability remediation, developing auto-remediation and AI-assisted workflows, and securing infrastructure through Terraform and policy-as-code. The role also partners with GRC and corporate security teams while building reusable security tooling and developer-platform guardrails.

Assess product and application architectures, develop threat models, identify security risks, and guide engineering teams on remediation. Promote security culture through training, mentoring, vulnerability management, and internal security initiatives. Build security tooling, automation, patterns, and workflows that embed secure-by-design practices across engineering. Partner with product managers, designers, and engineers to secure complex, large-scale cloud systems.

Lead Affirm’s enterprise AI security review program, threat model LLM and agentic systems, review code and configurations, and develop security guardrails, tooling, policies, and monitoring. Evaluate AI-enabled SaaS vendors, identify emerging vulnerabilities, support incident response, and lead cross-functional initiatives across Security, Engineering, Legal, Privacy, and Compliance. The role requires expertise in AI security architecture, threat modeling, IAM, cloud infrastructure, policy-as-code, and regulated enterprise environments.

Lead enterprise eDiscovery and insider-risk investigations by collecting, preserving, analyzing, and reviewing data from cloud infrastructure, endpoints, and repositories. Build AI-powered automation, correlate activity logs into investigative timelines, manage legal holds and governance policies, support digital forensics, and produce structured evidence packages for Security, Legal, HR, and investigative teams.

Build and scale backend security platform services, including authentication, authorization, identity infrastructure, permission systems, and data models. Lead cross-team technical initiatives, standardize security solutions, collaborate with compliance and mission stakeholders, and influence architecture and engineering standards. The role requires strong system design, backend development, security expertise, technical leadership, and the ability to operate in sensitive environments.

Lead complex security investigations across endpoint, identity, cloud, email, SaaS, and network environments. Own incidents through containment, remediation coordination, documentation, and post-incident review. Tune detections, queries, dashboards, workflows, and SOAR playbooks; improve SOC metrics, threat coverage, alert fidelity, and response processes. Partner on vulnerability and cloud-risk remediation, participate in global on-call rotation, use approved AI capabilities responsibly, and mentor analysts.

Leads the company’s information security operations and reports to the CISO. Oversees SIEM, threat detection, vulnerability management, penetration testing, incident response, SOC 2 Type II compliance, third-party risk, security awareness, cloud and endpoint security, and regulatory cybersecurity coordination. Manages security policies, breach readiness, tabletop exercises, KPIs, audits, and emerging technology evaluations while partnering with IT, infrastructure, compliance, regulators, and executive leadership.

Own the multi-year technical strategy and architecture for Coinbase’s enterprise IAM platform spanning human, AI agent, service, and workload identities. Drive adoption across 700+ systems, establish authentication and authorization standards, lead migrations and build-versus-buy decisions, automate audit and regulatory controls, reduce standing privilege, and mentor senior engineering talent. Partner across Security, Compliance, IT, Infrastructure, and product teams while influencing technical direction without direct authority.

Own day-to-day IT and information security operations for a fully remote Mac fleet. Responsibilities include endpoint lifecycle management, identity and access administration, Google Workspace, helpdesk support, asset coordination, CrowdStrike EDR monitoring, DLP controls, Datadog SIEM alerting, security hygiene, access reviews, and SOC 2 and PCI evidence collection. The role requires autonomous ownership, automation, clear documentation, cross-functional collaboration, and approximately 4–6 years of experience beyond ticket-only support.