Senior Security Engineer

Job overview

The Senior Security Engineer role is onsite in San Francisco, CA, with Singapore also listed as a potential work location. The stated annual salary range is $130,000–$225,000 USD. Clera is an early-stage AI infrastructure company; this role is its first full-time security engineering position and supports protection of AI systems and sensitive data. The engineer builds and leads security across product, infrastructure, compliance, and incident response. Establishing controls, detection, and response practices helps protect systems and data while supporting customer trust and the company’s security program.

What you'll do

• Lead incident detection, investigation, postmortems, and engineering improvements
• own the security roadmap across product, cloud, corporate security, incident response, and compliance
• secure APIs, platforms, and data systems through threat modeling, reviews, access controls, and secrets management
• build monitoring and detection capabilities
• lead SOC 2 or comparable compliance work
• coordinate data controls with legal, engineering, operations, and commercial teams.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior security engineer

san francisco ca

clera

ai infrastructure

product security

cloud security

incident response

soc 2

threat modeling

siem or xdr

visa sponsorship

$130k–$225k/year

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Visa sponsorship and relocation support are available.

Why this role

The posting requires at least five years of hands-on security engineering experience and experience with incident response, infrastructure security, and SOC 2 or a comparable framework. Visa sponsorship and relocation support are available.

About the employer

Clera is hiring for this role. Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services. Sector: 51.