Staff Security Engineer

Job Description

Opendoor is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to lead complex security initiatives across its cloud-native environment. The successful candidate will collaborate with IT and engineering teams to design and implement robust security controls, balancing innovation and risk. This role involves shaping Opendoor's security posture in a fast-moving technology company with diverse infrastructure spanning AWS, GCP, and Azure. What this role involves:

• Leading end-to-end security projects across multiple teams.
• Providing technical direction and mentorship to junior security engineers.
• Designing and implementing secure architecture for cloud-native applications.
• Developing and maintaining security standards, automation, and monitoring systems.
• Partnering with engineering teams to conduct security reviews, threat modeling, and risk assessments.
• Driving security incident response and implementing long-term remediation strategies.

Requirements:

• 6+ years of security engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a technical leadership capacity.
• Deep understanding of cloud security in AWS/GCP environments and containerized workloads (Kubernetes).
• Strong coding skills and experience implementing security automation and tooling.
• Experience with identity and access management solutions, particularly Okta.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex security concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience securing both Mac and Windows environments in a hybrid infrastructure setting.
• Familiarity with real estate technology or fintech security requirements.
• Security certifications (CISSP, CSSLP, AWS/GCP security certifications).

Opendoor offers:

• Unlimited PTO
• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Life insurance
• 401(k)