Security Engineer I

Job Description

Tekion, a company disrupting the automotive industry with its cloud-native platform, is seeking a Security Engineer I to join its expanding Product Security Engineering team. This role is based in Bangalore, India, and focuses on integrating security into all phases of the SDLC.Tekion values a security culture that prioritizes guardrails over roadblocks, empowering developers to move quickly while ensuring built-in, scalable, and resilient security. The Product Security team is responsible for integrating security into all phases of the SDLC, including infrastructure and application security, secure development practices, threat modeling, and DevSecOps automation.Responsibilities:

• Driving secure-by-design principles across web, mobile, cloud, and IoT systems.
• Building and maintaining security automation tools for CI/CD pipelines.
• Enhancing cloud infrastructure security posture at scale.
• Developing secure coding patterns, libraries, and guardrails for developers.
• Partnering with dev teams to identify and remediate security risks early.
• Conducting architectural reviews and risk assessments for new features or products.
• Assist engineering teams in performing threat modeling and working with them for effective mitigation techniques.

Requirements:

• Strong understanding of information security fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience with secure coding, DevSecOps, and security automation.
• Familiarity with application architecture, threat modeling, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (IAC), serverless, IAM, and cloud-native security.
• Experience integrating security controls into developer workflows.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Bash, Java, etc.).