Top Cyber Security Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

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 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.

Act as the technical presales lead for AI agent and cloud identity security across North America: scope engagements, design and run POCs and architectures across AWS/Azure/GCP, secure non-human and machine identities, create repeatable technical assets, and partner with account teams to close deals.

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.

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.

Lead and operationalize the enterprise information security program across AppSec, CloudSec, SecOps/IR, and GRC. Own SOC/detection and response, application and cloud security, risk registers, compliance (SOC2/ISO/NIST/HITRUST), security KPIs, and build a high-performing security organization partnered with engineering, IT, legal, and privacy.

The Staff Security Engineer will lead technical security initiatives, own architectural security decisions, mentor engineers, and align teams on security strategy while ensuring system integrity and compliance.

Design and implement multitenant workload and network isolation for bare-metal and virtualized GPU infrastructure. Harden Linux kernel and container runtimes, perform threat modeling and penetration testing, write low-level security code (C/Go/Rust), mitigate GPU and PCIe security risks, and lead incident response and forensic work for ephemeral container environments.

Secure customer-facing products, APIs, and internal services through threat modeling, architecture and code reviews. Remediate vulnerabilities by coding fixes in Python/Go/JS/TS. Build and manage SAST/DAST/SCA security pipelines in CI/CD. Configure WAFs, API gateways, and bot protection. Provide secure coding guidance, run bug bounty triage, and support compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR).

Lead product strategy and execution for security, compliance, and public-sector capabilities in MongoDB Atlas for Government. Translate FedRAMP/DoD/NIST requirements into roadmaps, drive multi-team programs, align senior stakeholders, enable audit readiness, and support market expansion and GTM for regulated industries.

Lead architecture and scaling of an automated, AI-driven vulnerability detection and remediation platform across cloud, containers, and applications. Correlate SAST/DAST/SCA findings, implement AI-assisted triage, run red/purple team validation, and build automated remediation pipelines integrated into CI/CD for continuous compliance and risk reduction.

Partner with engineering, compliance, and security teams to embed application security into the SDLC: triage static/SCA alerts, advise on OWASP Top 10 remediation, maintain developer playbooks and training, track security metrics and evidence for audits, and help shape AI governance and GenAI-safe workflows.

This intern role in Federal Security Operations focuses on cybersecurity, project tracking, and maintaining relationships with customer stakeholders in a mission-driven environment.

Perform 24/7 SOC monitoring and incident response across networks, endpoints, cloud and SaaS; triage, investigate, and remediate incidents; collaborate with vulnerability management, FedRAMP, and engineering teams; refine detection/playbooks; maintain incident documentation and SOC processes; support FedRAMP-related security and privacy responsibilities and periodic background investigations.

Lead product marketing for the North America region: drive product launches, craft positioning and content, build competitive intelligence, enable sales with demos and materials, coordinate analyst and event messaging, and create demand-generating thought leadership.

Lead and grow a remote Security Detection & Response team, build detection engineering and observability systems, drive telemetry onboarding, Panther and MITRE-aligned detections, Python automation, CI/CD workflows, and AI-assisted triage. Own incident response, investigations, cross-functional collaboration, and measurement of detection effectiveness.

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.

Lead the Application Security Practice, overseeing team performance and business growth while delivering high-quality security consulting services and fostering innovation through AI integration and research contributions.

The Security Software Engineer will design and implement security controls for MongoDB Atlas, collaborating across engineering teams and ensuring adherence to high security standards.

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will lead security design and implementation for cloud infrastructures, mentor teams, and automate security solutions.

Lead design and implementation of Saviynt IGA solutions, perform assessments and roadmaps, draft proposals and SOWs, produce deliverables, mentor junior engineers, and lead technical architecture and security discussions with stakeholders.

Act as the technical lead for strategic customers, driving adoption, deployments, architecture reviews, and executive engagements. Remove technical blockers, align cloud security strategy, partner with CSM and Sales on expansions, and provide product feedback to influence roadmap.

Lead and grow a team of Security and IT technical program managers and own the cyber security and IT program portfolio. Drive prioritization, resourcing, and delivery of cross-functional security initiatives, translate strategy into roadmaps, manage risks and dependencies, and standardize playbooks and metrics.

Own technical pre-sales for enterprise AI security: lead discovery, design demos, execute end-to-end POCs, partner with AEs, surface product feedback, and advise customers on complex technical decisions.