Top Senior Cyber Security Jobs in San Diego, CA

Lead design and implementation of secure-by-default infrastructure: build IaC modules, CI/CD templates, policy-as-code guardrails, and platform security tooling. Embed pipeline and supply-chain security, enforce least-privilege identity, operate defenses as self-service products, review high-risk designs, and set technical direction while mentoring engineers.

The Senior Security Engineer will secure cloud infrastructure across various services, develop security policies, manage exceptions, and respond to security alerts while collaborating with teams to eliminate security risks.

Lead end-to-end execution of a 12+ initiative product security program, managing cross-team dependencies, vendor procurement, BAU security operations, and executive reporting. Maintain roadmap and tracking in Jira/Confluence, drive procurement/POCs, produce executive-ready metrics, and establish program cadence to ensure timely remediation and predictable delivery.

Design and harden on-device security for Specs including permissions, sandboxing, secure IPC, and trusted execution. Build privacy and integrity controls for on-device AI, improve fuzzing and automated security testing, conduct threat modeling, vulnerability assessment, and secure code review across OS, firmware, services, and device-cloud surfaces.

Lead planning, deployment, tuning, and operational support of CrowdStrike Falcon's AI/ML detection and response capabilities. Implement and troubleshoot AI-driven detection models, automation playbooks, API integrations, and threat-hunting for customers. Provide training, mentorship, and customer-facing collateral while optimizing detection efficacy and integrating Falcon into customers' security workflows.

The Senior Security Engineer will design secure development lifecycles, integrate security tools, lead remediation of security issues, and mentor teammates, ensuring systems resilience and security across DraftKings.

Lead product vision and strategy for security operations services, defining outcomes for managed investigation, response, threat hunting, and advisory services. Partner with customer security ops, product, and marketing teams to deliver AI-driven, automated features, represent Zscaler to customers, and drive measurable security outcomes and operational alignment.

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 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 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.

As a Security Architect, you will build secure agent runtimes and systems, ensuring robust security capabilities in agentic AI solutions while conducting security evaluations.

Own and architect Forward's security technology stack across AppSec, SecOps, and GRC. Design integrations with Engineering/IT, lead tool evaluations and PoCs, automate controls with infrastructure-as-code and detection-as-code, build centralized logging/SIEM and identity governance, align architecture to security frameworks, mentor security engineers, and support incident response and remediation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

This role involves owning the security architecture for AI platforms on GCP, designing guardrails, and integrating security into CI/CD pipelines. Candidates should have extensive experience in cloud security, specifically with GCP services, Kubernetes security, and AI/ML security practices.

As a Senior Cloud Security Engineer, you will implement security controls for multi-cloud environments, develop security tooling, and collaborate on cloud architecture.

The Senior Application Security Engineer will implement security controls for space systems, ensuring compliance with government standards while collaborating with engineering teams to enhance security practices and respond to threats.

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 customer trust and security governance: oversee contract reviews, security questionnaires, and escalations; partner with Legal, Sales, Product, and Procurement; develop templates, policies, playbooks, metrics, and awareness programs; and apply automation and AI to scale workflows and reporting.

Lead and mentor a small IT security engineering team to deploy and operate enterprise-grade Zero Trust security across networks, endpoints, applications, and cloud. Drive Customer Zero initiatives, manage cross-functional security projects, optimize policies (SSL decryption, segmentation, access control), and serve as an internal subject-matter expert.