Enterprise Security Engineer

Software

Remote

$275,000 USD

Enterprise Security Engineer

Apply now

Corporate security is often perceived as a department of "no", where decisions

are made by pointing out what is wrong, controls are designed to shift blame,

and success is measured by checking boxes rather than reducing risk. At Oxide,

security is understood to be an engineering discipline. When something is risky,

the job is to say "yes, and here’s how it could be done," and the controls we

operate exist regardless of whether a spreadsheet says it should.

We produce a product whose premise is that customers can trust what we ship.

The security of our build pipeline, our signing infrastructure, and the systems

we work on every day is critical to customer trust in Oxide. We’re looking for

a security engineer to own security of how Oxide operates: the SaaS providers

we depend on, the endpoints we work from, the internal services used for

operations, our offices, the signing ceremonies that protect our most sensitive

key material, and building automation to support the security of our operations.

As a corporate security engineer working at Oxide, you will:

• Manage the security lifecycle of third-party SaaS providers: user provisioning,

access control, configuration, security review and ongoing tracking for

compliance commitments.

• Manage endpoint security for corporate machines, including MDM, help reason

about where management tooling makes sense and where it doesn’t.

• Secure and help operate internal corporate services: access control, log

forwarding, service hardening, vulnerability management, backup and recovery.

• Build automation for compliance evidence gathering, turning audit requests

into automatic or easily repeatable processes.

• Participate in security incident response: triage events, investigations,

report writing, and general process improvement.

• Manage security controls of physical office spaces.
• Support offline keystore operations: planning ceremonies, writing and

maintaining the tooling, take role assignments as needed for ceremonies.

• Design backup and recovery solutions and perform periodic recovery testing.
• Work directly with auditors and compliance partners and finding the balance

between workable systems and compliance requirements.

These responsibilities are just a starting place! We’re a small company, we

don’t have rigid roles, and we have a lot to do - we can help you grow wherever

your interests take you.

You will thrive in this role if you:

• Believe security’s job is to say "yes, and here’s how", not "no, and here’s

why". When something is risky, you respond with actionable recommendations for

doing it safely, rather than focusing on why something wouldn’t work.

• Are allergic to checkbox security. You care whether controls actually reduce

risk, not whether it lets someone claim they weren’t responsible when things

go wrong. You’re willing to own the outcomes of your recommendations, including

those that don’t pan out.

• Have an attacker’s instincts, ideally sharpened by hands-on offensive work.

You ask "how could someone get around this?" before asking "does this satisfy

the requirement?"

• Treat compliance as an engineering problem. The compliance controls you manage

are only those that you’d want anyway, regardless of compliance requirements.

You would rather write tooling for compliance evidence gathering than

periodically collect screenshots.

• Believe in the importance of fully documenting your ideas, and you enjoy reading

documentation produced by others.

• Are eager to own cross-function initiatives across the company, working with

various teams to design and implement solutions that work for everyone.

• Look forward to running the MDM program at Oxide.
• Are comfortable being a generalist.
• Are proficient with Rust programming.
• Are comfortable in Unix, Mac and Windows environments.

Before applying for this role, you should:

• Browse our public Requests for Discussion to get a flavor for how we work. A few recommendations:
• RFD 585 Cosmo RoT Code Signing Ceremony
• RFD 605 Virtual Machine Identity and Attestation
• RFD 733 Security Incident Response Plan
• Listen to Hiring Processes with Gergely Orosz to familiarize yourself with the Oxide hiring process.

Life at Oxide

We are very explicit about our values, and they can be seen in daily life at Oxide, for example:

• Our rigor means we enjoy and take pride in the craft of engineering.
• Our urgency means that we are not above the judicious short-cut.
• Our versatility is reflected in our greatest strength: the breadth of our team.
• Our transparency can be seen in our consensus-driven RFD process.
• Our responsibility means that we both lead and follow: we have our own domains, but we also help others on their parts.
• Our curiosity shows in our insatiable desire to learn – and our empathy in our love of teaching others.
• Our humor is a big part of our daily lives: we are inveterate wise-crackers whose video meetings spill into simultaneous text chat.

Working at Oxide

Remote first

Most of our team are based outside of the Bay Area. We do ask that your workday overlaps with Pacific Time for at least four hours.

Flexible working hours

Our families and lives outside of our jobs are very important to us; our schedules are flexible to reflect and support that.

Premium healthcare

We offer the best medical PPO, dental, and vision plans we can find and cover 100% of premiums for employees and dependents.

Learn more

Compensation

Everyone at Oxide makes $275,000 USD, regardless of location. (Some sales positions have a lower base salary and contain a commission component.)

Learn more

Apply now

Authentication required

It is required that you authenticate with an email in order to apply.

You may also read through the materials that we ask every applicant to

complete. By clicking log in you agree to the use of cookies that we

use to authenticate your session.

Log inView materials