Senior Security Engineer

Who We Are:
At OPENLANE we make wholesale easy so our customers can be more successful.

We’re a technology company building the world’s most advanced—and uncomplicated—digital marketplace for used vehicles.
We’re a data company helping customers buy and sell smarter with clear, actionable insights they can understand and use.
And we’re an innovation company accelerating the future of wholesale remarketing through curiosity, collaboration, and an entrepreneurial spirit.

Our Values:
Driven Waybuilders. We pursue challenges that inspire us to build, create, and innovate.
Relentless Curiosity. We seek to understand and improve our customers’ experience.
Smart Risk-Taking. We transform risk into progress through data, experience, and intuition.
Fearless Ownership. We deliver what we promise and learn along the way.
 

We’re Looking For:

We are seeking a Senior Security Engineer with experience in advanced detection engineering, infrastructure hardening, and security automation.  The Senior Security Engineer at OPENLANE, is a core contributor to the Office of the CISO. This role owns and matures specific domains of the Information Security program, providing both technical mentorship and hands-on engineering excellence.  You will act as an authoritative security voice on cross-functional teams, proactively identifying risks and engineering complex solutions that align with OPENLANEs regulatory obligations and long-term security posture. 

You Are:

• Autonomous. You can drive multiple high-stakes technical projects from concept to execution with minimal oversight.

• Highly analytical. You excel at distilling granular technical data into actionable insights for technical and non-technical audiences.

• Technically deep. You bring hands-on-keyboard expertise across multiple advanced security domains.

• Calm under pressure. You provide clear direction during high-impact security events.

• Collaborative. You elevate team performance through mentorship, documentation, and peer reviews.

You Will:

• Advanced Detection Engineering: Designing and tuning high-fidelity detection logic and complex alerting telemetry to identify sophisticated adversary techniques (TTPs) that bypass standard security controls.

• Infrastructure Hardening & Segmentation: Engineering and implementing least privilege, code-based security controls for high-risk network zones; Debugging and optimizing intricate security policy enforcement conflicts within multi-cloud environments..

• Engineered Preventative Controls: Building and deploying custom security wrappers, hardened "Golden Images," and automated policy-as-code to programmatically prevent common attack vectors across the enterprise.

• Complex Firewall & WAF Optimization: Managing intricate firewall configurations, including deep packet inspection (DPI) tuning and custom WAF rule-writing for specialized web applications.

• Technical Benchmarking & PoC Execution: Leading the rigorous technical evaluation and stress-testing of new security technologies; performing deep-dive "bake-offs" to ensure tools meet high-performance requirements.

• Tier III Escalation & "Impossible" Debugging: Acting as the final technical authority for critical security outages or bypasses; debugging kernel-level security issues or complex system interactions that Tier II cannot resolve.

• Security Stack Performance Tuning: Optimizing the throughput, reliability, and resource consumption of security agents and platforms to ensure zero impact on production system performance.

• Advanced Security Automation (SOAR/API): Writing complex scripts and building custom API integrations to bridge gaps between security tools, enabling sophisticated, automated response workflows (SOAR).

• Autonomous Technical Delivery: Proven ability to drive multiple high-stakes technical projects from concept to execution with total autonomy and surgical precision.

• Technical Information Synthesis: Expertise in distilling highly granular technical data (e.g., packet captures, stack traces, raw logs) into actionable insights for both technic