Senior Engineer
Core
Senior Security Engineer responsible for architecting secure applications, managing security incidents, and securing agentic/LLM workflows for The Atlantic's journalism platform.
Role type
Senior hands-on security engineer (IC)
Builds
Secure application architectures, security tooling, and automated security controls
Domain
Media & Publishing / Application Security & DevSecOps
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
backend programming, DevOps (CI/CD, IaC, cloud), secure software design, zero trust principles, IAM, WAF, incident response, threat modeling
Preferred skills
securing agentic/LLM workflows, security tooling development, observability (Datadog, Sentry), consumer web/mobile background
Technologies
AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, Datadog, Sentry
Responsibilities
Architect applications with built-in security and zero trust; review code and diagrams for security issues; secure agentic and LLM-driven workflows; configure and tune WAFs and IAM; develop security automation tooling; triage and resolve security incidents; participate in on-call rotation for production monitoring.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
