Security Engineer (Cloud/SaaS)
Company: Culminate Inc.
Location: Bay Area/Remote
About Culminate
Culminate disrupts the 1 trillion dollar security operation and managed service provider market by using recent advancements in AI to convert human cybersecurity expertise and operational insights into automated solutions, offering critical reinforcements to overstretched cyber defense personnel.
Founded by AI and security experts from Google Deepmind, Amazon, Zscaler, Cisco, Lacework, Culminate is well funded and backed by top-tier VCs. Culminate is on a mission to provide the best AI workforce for every security teams. It enables enterprises to 10-100X their security operation teams by giving them the best of breed AI SOC analysts which imitates expert human SOC analysts and auto-investigate all alerts within minutes.
Position Overview
Culminate is seeking ambitious and well-rounded security professionals to solve the challenges that the industry was never able to solve since the beginning of the internet. As a Security Engineer (Cloud/SaaS) at Culminate, you’ll work with product team to define roadmap and work with AI and software engineering team to ensure the product produces the industry's best investigations.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive security path finding
- Lead security pathfinding efforts by identifying emerging threats, attack techniques, and investigation gaps
- Demonstrate deep understanding of log sources and artifacts generated by specific attacker behaviors across cloud and SaaS environments
- Collaborate with Product Management to shape the roadmap based on real-world threat trends and day-to-day challenges faced by enterprise SOC teams
- Stay ahead of the evolving threat landscape and bring timely insights to both internal teams and customers
- Design and prototype attack simulations and investigations, clearly documenting attacker procedures and step-by-step detection/investigation strategies
- Partner with AI/ML teams to codify and automate high-quality investigative workflows that scale across customer environments
- Own efficacy improvement
- Become a power user of our AI SOC Analyst product, mastering its capabilities to drive investigation excellence
- Proactively identify gaps or inefficiencies in detection and investigation workflows, and provide clear, actionable feedback to engineering within 24 hours
- Own the end-to-end efficacy monitoring process to ensure customers receive optimal protection with minimal false positives or workflow disruptions
- Continuously design and execute threat scenarios to rigorously test and validate investigation accuracy and response quality
- Partner with product management and marketing
- Create engaging and insightful blog content on security topics to educate and connect with the broader practitioner community
- Collaborate with the product marketing team to develop compelling content for social media, video platforms, and Culminate-owned community channels
- Support and participate in media production efforts, including webinars, interviews, and live events, to share expertise and amplify Culminate’s voice in the security industry
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field
- Hands-on experience investigating incidents in at least two major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Familiar with SaaS investigations across Entra ID, Okta, O365, Google Workspace, and similar services
- Experience handling DLP alert investigations
- Proficient in Python for automation and analysis
- Demonstrated AI/LLM skills through a project involving prompt engineering
- Strong communicator who thrives in a collaborative and fast-paced environment
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience investigating incidents in all the three major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Have experiences in threat hunting and/or incident response in Cloud/SaaS environment
What We Offer
- The chance to work with the best security, AI, and engineering team committed to redefining the security industry
- A team with strong conviction on solving customers' problems and iterate fast to get to customer satisfaction
- Competitive salary and benefits
How to Apply
Interested candidates are invited to submit their resume and cover letter to contact@culminatesecurity.com with the subject line "Security Engineer (Cloud/SaaS).”
Equal Opportunity Employer
Culminate Security is committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive workplace where innovation thrives through a variety of perspectives. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.
