Security Engineer
We are looking for a Security Engineer to strengthen Planhat’s technical security execution across application security, platform hardening, and incident response preparedness. This role is ideal for a hands-on engineer who thrives in fast-paced environments and wants to have real impact across a growing SaaS platform.
Your focus will be to reduce operational risk, improve threat detection, and embed security into our engineering lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Develop and Maintain secure development lifecycle efforts: threat modeling, code reviews, SAST, supply chain scanning
- Collaborate with the development team to design and implement application security controls.
- Drive resolution of AppSec issues in collaboration with Engineering teams
- Contribute to container and Kubernetes security
- Harden internal systems and cloud infrastructure through policy, automation, and best practices
- Develop and enforce Infrastructure as Code (IaC) security policies
- Deploy, configure, and manage security tools
- Automate security processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual efforts.
- Work closely with engineering, IT, and compliance teams to ensure alignment of security practices across organizations.
- Provide guidance and mentorship on security best practices.
- Participate in risk assessments and mitigate identified vulnerabilities.
- Align technical implementations with compliance requirements (ISO 27001, SOC 2).
- Ensure proper documentation of security processes and tools.
- Improve detection coverage by developing alert logic and use case rules
- Build IRP automation and playbooks across our detection stack
Skills & Requirements
- Strong technical experience in cloud and application security, ideally in SaaS environments
- Comfortable working with tools like Terraform, GCP, Kubernetes
- Hands-on experience building and tuning detection logic
- Approaches problems with an automation mindset, designing scalable workflows rather than relying on manual intervention
- Familiar with secure coding practices, SDLC, and modern AppSec workflows
- Collaborative mindset when working with Engineering, DevOps, and Compliance, knows when to block and when to guide
- Understands incident response beyond theory, and builds playbooks that reflect real risk scenarios
- Brings a pragmatic view of security: focused on reducing risk, enabling teams, and supporting business growth
Great Place to Work
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Flexible Work Location
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Paid Parental Leave
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Flexible Public Holidays
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Flexible Working Hours
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Extended Leave
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Meet-ups & Workations
About the company
Planhat is a customer platform that provides software and services to help organizations grow lifelong customers. Our platform powers sales, service and customer success products that scale with our customers’ needs all the way from startup to household name and beyond. Each day worldwide, over 2.6 million customers are attracted, engaged and delighted with our intuitive yet flexible system of action.
The Planhat platform empowers everyone in your organization to consolidate, analyze and act on all your data, becoming more customer-centric and data-driven than ever before. From rolling out autonomous transport systems to distributing new medicines, we’re proud to help make our customers better at what they do best.
Alongside our customers, we’re building at the forefront of healthcare & life sciences, finance, connected business, and more. And we need curious, daring minds to help us.
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