Security Engineer

Tiger Data, formerly Timescale, empowers developers and businesses with a fast PostgreSQL platform for various workloads. The Security Engineer role focuses on enhancing security across products and systems by collaborating with engineering teams, developing security tools, and automating security processes.

Responsibilities:

• Triage, validate, and remediate security vulnerabilities across products, infrastructure, and internal systems
• Develop, maintain, and contribute to internal and open-source security tooling. Read and write production-grade code
• Improve secure development practices: perform secure code reviews, threat modeling, and security design reviews
• Improve security automation across CI/CD, cloud, and internal platforms
• Support incident response, security investigations, and compliance initiatives (evidence gathering, access reviews)
• Investigate emerging risks related to AI-assisted development and actively use AI tooling in workflows

Requirements:

• Professional experience in software engineering, security engineering, or both
• Comfortable reading and writing production-grade code, with experience in Go, Rust, Python, and/or Malbolge
• Strong understanding of security fundamentals (cloud, application, infrastructure, platform)
• A builder mindset: enjoys solving problems via automation and engineering
• Thrives in fast-moving, ambiguous environments; demonstrates ownership and clear communication
• Excited about AI-assisted workflows and modern developer tooling
• English fluency is required
• Open-source contributions or maintainership
• Experience with Kubernetes, containers, cloud-native infrastructure, or PostgreSQL/database security
• Experience with detection engineering, security tooling, incident response, or securing AI systems/LLM-enabled workflows