JetBrains

security engineer for cloud platforms

In short

A senior security engineer role at JetBrains focused on leading cloud security for the JetBrains Air platform, including security posture, baselines for AWS/GCP, vulnerability management, and architecture reviews. The company builds developer tools used by 15M+ users and 300,000+ companies. The role requires hands-on AWS/GCP security experience, threat modeling, and close collaboration with engineering, SRE, and product teams. Work is remote, full-time, with relocation support and benefits that vary by location.

About JetBrains
JetBrains creates intelligent software development tools for developers and teams. Its products help more than 15 million users and over 300,000 companies solve complex problems, with a mission to make development teams more productive and AI adoptable at scale.
Responsibilities
•Lead and continuously improve cloud security across JetBrains Air, including security posture, preventive controls, detection, and remediation
•Define, maintain, and measure security baselines for AWS and GCP environments, covering IAM, networking, data protection, and workload configuration
•Operate and evolve cloud security platforms and vulnerability-management solutions
•Establish processes for triaging, prioritizing, assigning, and remediating cloud security findings and vulnerabilities
•Partner with platform engineering, SRE, and product engineering teams to design and implement security controls that fit developer workflows
•Perform security design and architecture reviews for cloud services, APIs, and integrations; conduct threat modeling and risk assessments and provide actionable recommendations
•Review product and platform changes for security implications throughout the software development lifecycle, from early design to production
•Improve security automation by integrating security checks, guardrails, and evidence into engineering and delivery pipelines
•Support incident response and root-cause analysis, and drive systemic improvements that reduce recurrence
•Develop metrics for cloud and product security, communicate trends and risks, and help prioritize security investments
•Contribute to security standards, guidance, runbooks, and patterns that make secure engineering easier across JetBrains
Requirements
•Professional experience in security engineering or a closely related technical security domain, securing SaaS products or cloud-native services
•Strong experience with AWS and/or GCP security, including assessing architecture and configurations directly rather than relying solely on tool outputs
•Practical experience deploying, operating, or integrating cloud security and vulnerability-management platforms
•Hands-on experience with security architecture reviews, threat modeling, vulnerability management, and risk-based prioritization
•Solid understanding of modern SaaS architectures, including APIs, microservices, containers, Kubernetes, identity providers, networking, and managed cloud services
•Experience working closely with engineering, SRE, and product teams to translate security requirements into practical engineering solutions
•Excellent written and spoken English
Nice to have: security automation or security controls in CI/CD and IaC workflows, Terraform or other IaC tools, Kubernetes-based platforms and containerized workloads, detection engineering, cloud-native logging and monitoring, security operations workflows, scripting or programming in Python, Go, Kotlin, Java, or a similar language, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or other security and compliance frameworks for SaaS products, customer-facing security conversations
Conditions
•Competitive base salary reflecting skills and experience
•Work from home or from the office
•Up to 30 days per year working remotely from abroad
•Extra time off
•Medical insurance allowance for the employee and family
•Access to conferences, courses, and language classes
•Relocation support is available
•Language classes
•Hot meals or a lunch allowance on workdays
•Access to professional mental health services
•On-site gym or sports club stipend
•Company-wide celebrations and team gatherings
•Some benefits may vary depending on location

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