Cloud Security Engineer

The role

This role sits within the Cloud Security team, which safeguards the production cloud systems running Fin's customer-facing AI. The engineer works alongside infrastructure and product teams to harden environments, spot threats, and respond to incidents. The position also shapes how security practices and AI-driven defensive tooling evolve as Fin grows.

What you would do

• Architect and deploy secure configurations across AWS infrastructure
• Create preventive and monitoring controls that sharpen threat visibility in the cloud
• Build detection logic aimed at adversary activity to shorten response times
• Lead investigations into cloud security events and coordinate with engineering on fixes
• Join an on-call schedule and help direct containment and recovery during incidents
• Automate security controls to make them more scalable and dependable
• Embed security into infrastructure-as-code pipelines and platform workflows with infrastructure teams
• Write and refine cloud security standards and team guidance
• Take security projects from initial problem framing through to measurable results
• Support secure use of AI coding assistants within engineering workflows

What they asked for

• Demonstrated background in cloud security, security engineering, or detection engineering
• Hands-on experience running and securing production AWS environments
• Solid grasp of current attack methods and defensive best practices
• Track record building detection or monitoring systems
• Practical experience handling security incidents and driving remediation
• Experience deploying security controls in cloud and production settings
• Capable programmer who builds automation and operational tooling
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and cloud-native technologies
• Comfortable adopting AI-assisted development tools to work more efficiently
• Able to explain security topics clearly to engineering colleagues

Nice to have

• Experience building detection engineering, threat hunting, or SOC capabilities at scale
• Exposure to CNAPP or large-scale cloud security monitoring platforms
• Applying AI to detection, response, or security operations
• Knowledge of AWS networking, identity, and cloud security patterns
• Background in both large SaaS platforms and fast-growing companies