Senior Security Engineer (Cloud)

Later is the world’s most intelligent influencer marketing company, built to give brands the confidence to create unforgettable campaigns. By combining real creator relationships, trusted intelligence, and expert guidance, Later removes fear and guesswork from one of marketing’s most visible investments.

Built on a native, AI-powered platform and more than a decade of proprietary data—including billions of social interactions, impressions, and $2.4B+ in verified influencer-driven purchases—Later helps teams understand what will work before they launch.
By combining trusted insight with expert guidance, Later removes guesswork from influencer marketing, enabling brands to choose the right creators, execute fully managed campaigns, and drive meaningful growth across awareness, engagement, and revenue. Trusted by leading enterprise brands including Nike, Wayfair, Unilever, and Southwest Airlines, Later bridges creativity and performance so campaigns don’t just look good—they deliver results. This role blends deep security expertise with strong software engineering skills, with a focus on application security, cloud and infrastructure security, secure development practices, vulnerability management, compliance enablement, and security improvements across our corporate systems and business operations. Youll partner closely with teams across Engineering, Infrastructure, Product, IT, Legal, People, Finance, and other business functions to embed security into Laters systems, tools, workflows, and operating practices. A core focus of this role is helping Later mature its security capabilities in support of SOC 2 and other compliance expectations through practical controls, automation, evidence-ready processes, and clear guidance that works across the company. This role is ideal for a senior security practitioner who thinks like a defender, builds like a software engineer, and leads through influence across both technical and non-technical teams.
Assess and continuously improve Laters overall security posture across applications, infrastructure, cloud environments, corporate systems, vendor tooling, and business workflows.
Partner with Engineering, Infrastructure, IT, Product, Legal, People, Finance, and business leaders to align security priorities with company goals, risk reduction, and delivery timelines.
Translate SOC 2 and related compliance requirements into sustainable technical and operational controls, procedures, and evidence collection practices.
Identify security gaps across the company, prioritize remediation efforts, and help teams make pragmatic, risk-based decisions.
Build and maintain internal security tools, automation, and services that support secure development, compliance workflows, vulnerability management, corporate security operations, and operational visibility.
Design and implement security controls within CI/CD pipelines, including secure build and deploy patterns, security scanning, dependency management, container scanning, and secret management.
Support application security efforts, including secure design reviews, threat modeling, code review guidance, API security, microservices security patterns, and remediation planning.
Improve cloud infrastructure and corporate systems security through hardening, monitoring, configuration review, Infrastructure-as-Code security scanning, access reviews, and secure operational patterns.
Provide pragmatic security guidance on designs, implementations, vendor tools, operational practices, and business workflows.
Communicate security risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly across technical and non-technical audiences.
Within the first 90 days, youve completed a security posture assessment, identified the highest-priority gaps, and have a remediation roadmap thats been reviewed and socialized with key stakeholders across Engineering, IT, and Leadership.
By 6 months, core SOC 2 controls are documented, automated where possible, and evidence collection is running reliably without manual heroics from any single team.
Security is embedded into Laters CI/CD pipelines, with scanning, secret management, and container security integrated and maintained as a standard part of the development lifecycle.
Teams across Engineering, IT, and the business have a clear point of contact for security questions, a shared understanding of the risk landscape, and security guidance that helps them move faster, not slower.
Laters security observability has materially improved: logging, alerting, and detection coverage are in place, and the company has a documented, practiced incident response process.
We are committed to building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best and most rewarding work of your career. 5-7+ years of experience as a Security Engineer or Software Engineer with a strong security focus.
~ Proven ability to build and operate production-quality software, automation, and internal tooling.
~ Strong understanding of application security, infrastructure security, cloud security, secure CI/CD practices, and corporate security controls.
~ Hands-on experience with vulnerability management, secure software development, threat modeling, remediation workflows, and operational security improvements.
~ Familiarity with cloud security platforms such as AWS Security Hub, Azure Security Center, or GCP Security Command Center.
~ Experience with SIEM/SOAR tools, logging and monitoring platforms, detection workflows, and practical incident response processes.
~ Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code security scanning for tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
~ Experience collaborating closely with engineering, IT, compliance, and business teams to improve security outcomes.
~ Familiarity with C#, modern backend systems, cloud-native architecture, and SaaS business tooling.

Strategic & Customer-Centric: You anticipate risks and opportunities, connect decisions to long-term growth, and build trust through proactive insights.
Emotionally Intelligent: You build trust through empathy and collaboration, foster inclusion, and inspire others with grit, optimism, and integrity.
We take a market-based & data-driven approach to compensation. We leverage data from trusted third-party compensation sources to help us understand the market value of a role based on function, level, geographic location, and scope. We evaluate compensation bi-annually, including performance and market-related factors.
Our salaries are benchmarked against market Total Cash Compensation for the geographic location of our job posting.
To comply with local legislation and ensure transparency, we share salary ranges on all job postings. Skills, experience and other factors help determine the final salary we offer which may vary from the original range posted.
Additionally, all permanent team members are eligible to participate in various benefits plans as part of their overall compensation package.
For candidates located in the Canada: $110,000-160,000 CAD
For select positions, we are open to hiring fully remote candidates. Diversity, inclusion, and accessibility:
At Later, we are committed to fostering a culture rooted in an

inclusion-first mindset at every level

of the company, embracing the importance of hiring and

building teams for culture add rather than culture fit

. We openly build and maintain unbiased hiring, pay, and promotion practices to create a foundation for an equitable workplace, paving the way for systemic change.
All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, or age.