Who We Are

At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.

We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.

We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.

Our Values

If this sounds like you, you’ll fit right in.

Who You Are

At Justworks, we're on a mission to help entrepreneurs and growing businesses thrive by simplifying payroll, benefits, HR, and compliance. Our work supports a diverse and global workforce—so we're building a security team that can match our scale and ambition.

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Security Engineer with expertise in Cloud Security to join our Security Architecture & Engineering (SAE) function. You will play a critical role in securing our cloud infrastructure and applications, implementing and managing security solutions for our AWS environment, Kubernetes (EKS) deployments, and related services. Our work takes the form of tool development, cloud security operations, guidance, and strategy. You should feel comfortable moving  between each at any given time.

We leverage a number of technologies to power our tools and platform, including AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, Datadog, and write our code in Ruby, Python, and Go just to name a few.

Your Success Profile

What You Will Work On

• Design and implement secure, scalable, and resilient cloud architectures on AWS that meet business requirements, compliance needs, security considerations, and regulatory requirements.
• Design, implement, and build identity security controls that leverage Just in Time access, principle of least privilege (PoLP), and other identity security management concepts.
• Implement Policy-as-code to enforce security-by-default and security-by-scale
• Secure containers, build pipelines, and infrastructure with cutting-edge security solutions or custom-built tooling that are automated, observable, and built to last. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to enhance our growing self-service infrastructure
• Lead and influence the technical direction of strategic security initiatives, owning medium-to-large scale engineering projects within the Cloud and Enterprise Security domains
• Continuously monitor and evaluate emerging threats, technologies, and trends, translating them into actionable improvements. 
• Support other security initiatives as needed based on organizational needs.

How You Will Do Your Work

As a Senior Security Engineer, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following:

• Good judgment - the exercise of critical thinking, analyzing and assessing problems and implications, identifying patterns, making connections of underlying issues, understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome.
• Resourcefulness - taking a can-do approach, even in the face of obstacles and constraints by assessing what’s in front of you and effectively and efficiently optimizing what you have, whether it's working on something new or thinking about how to do something better.
• Teamwork and communication - putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism.
• Influence and leadership - fostering a community of knowledge-sharing, collaboration, mentorship, and forward-thinking.
• Skills and knowledge - the capacity to actively learn and apply specific domain knowledge, know-how, and best practices to continually enhance and improve.

In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:

• Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like