Top Cyber Security Jobs in Boston, MA

Lead the architecture and engineering of production-grade agentic AI platforms for offensive cybersecurity operations. Design multi-agent workflows, execution harnesses, memory, tool calling, model routing, retrieval, and enterprise integrations. Establish security, evaluation, observability, reliability, and AI safety practices, including sandboxing, authorization, secrets management, guardrails, and defenses against prompt injection and data leakage. Mentor engineers, guide cross-functional architecture decisions, and communicate tradeoffs to senior leadership.

Design and operate secure endpoint and SaaS controls across GitLab’s remote workforce, with a primary focus on macOS. Build Terraform and GitOps automation, enforce security baselines, manage patching and software distribution, improve endpoint telemetry and detections, and partner with IT and security teams. Mentor engineers and serve as a senior escalation point for complex endpoint security issues.

Build and operate central security systems, automation, tooling, and controls across cloud infrastructure, identity, access, products, partners, and vendors. Develop AI-assisted security workflows, lead external assessments through verified remediation, identify and validate vulnerabilities, guide engineering teams, and participate in incident response. The role requires production security engineering experience, strong programming skills, cloud security expertise, and fintech, payments, or crypto experience.

Lead security architecture and design reviews, define standards for protecting sensitive healthcare data, build automated defenses, improve monitoring and incident response, redirect technical strategy, translate complex security objectives into engineering requirements, and mentor engineers through rigorous code and design reviews.

Designs, builds, and improves security detections across cloud, identity, endpoint, network, and application environments. The role develops Detection-as-Code capabilities, maps threats to MITRE ATT&CK, tunes alerts, reduces false positives, supports incident investigations, and automates triage. It also tracks detection performance, contributes to on-call operations, partners with engineering and infrastructure teams, and applies threat intelligence, data analysis, and machine learning to strengthen detection fidelity.

Designs and develops IAM and security software, automation, APIs, and microservices. Integrates security into cloud and CI/CD environments, conducts code reviews and threat modeling, monitors security events, supports incident response, and advises teams on identity architecture and best practices. Requires extensive IAM administration, programming, cloud, containerization, and secure-coding experience.

Own internal offensive security assessments across applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and corporate systems. Plan and execute penetration tests, validate vulnerabilities safely, review source code, and partner with engineering teams through remediation and retesting. Build automated security testing tools and workflows, lead adoption of AI-assisted offensive security capabilities, support third-party testing, improve detection and incident response, and participate in on-call responsibilities.

Leads technical pre-sales architecture for complex security solutions serving public-sector and commercial customers. Translates business, security, compliance, and technical requirements into solution designs, bills of materials, statements of work, estimates, pricing, assessments, and deployment plans. Conducts discovery sessions, architecture workshops, solution reviews, and customer presentations while partnering with sales, delivery teams, and security vendors. Mentors architects and sellers, supports regional customer activity, and travels throughout the Southeast as needed.

Secure CrowdStrike’s software supply chain and code-hosting environments by assessing GitHub organizations, open-source integrations, repositories, dependencies, and third-party packages. Implement repository guardrails, secret scanning, access controls, and automation; investigate supply-chain threats such as typosquatting and dependency confusion; promote secure coding and open-source compliance; and collaborate with engineering teams on security initiatives.

Leads enterprise network security architecture, engineering, and modernization across cloud and on-premises environments. Designs firewalls, WAF, DDoS protection, Azure connectivity, microsegmentation, Zero Trust, SASE, and SD-WAN solutions. Serves as a Level 3 incident escalation point, drives root-cause analysis and resilience improvements, establishes automation and DevSecOps standards, and mentors engineers. Partners with stakeholders and vendors to deliver secure, scalable network security platforms.

Serves as the senior technical authority for enterprise browser data protection and security. Owns architecture, roadmap, standards, lifecycle, browser-based DLP controls, integrations, automation, and operational support. Leads complex troubleshooting, major incident response, root-cause analysis, runbook development, and continuous improvement. Partners across cybersecurity, identity, endpoint, network, cloud, risk, compliance, and vendor teams while mentoring engineers and influencing enterprise security design.

Own and expand CivilGrid’s security program, including SOC 2 readiness, access controls, endpoint security, threat modeling, vulnerability management, incident response, and customer security reviews. Support AWS infrastructure, GIS servers, reliability practices, observability, SLOs, on-call operations, and post-incident reviews. Partner with engineering, IT, and leadership to embed security and reliability across the SDLC and production systems.

Leads enterprise AI Security and GenAI data protection, owning the AI Gateway from evaluation through deployment and ongoing operations. Designs controls for prompts, uploads, browser traffic, copilots, agents, and integrations; implements monitoring, coaching, redaction, quarantine, and blocking. Integrates telemetry with security and identity platforms, establishes governance and exception processes, measures effectiveness, supports audit readiness, and partners with business and technology teams to enable responsible AI adoption.

Hands-on Security Engineer responsible for IAM administration, access controls, vendor risk assessments, incident detection and response, security tool configuration, monitoring, alert tuning, and security program development. The role partners with internal IT teams and external MSSP/MDR providers, supports incident response and compliance activities, develops policies and playbooks, and participates in 24/7 incident escalation coverage.

Designs, deploys, and operates global network access security using Forescout, Cisco ISE, 802.1X, MAB, RADIUS, and TACACS+. Responsibilities include troubleshooting authentication, managing ISE upgrades and certificates, enforcing segmentation and Zero Trust controls, securing corporate and manufacturing networks, and supporting Cisco access-layer infrastructure. The role also partners across security and networking teams, maintains documentation, supports change windows, and automates NAC operations.

Build and operate secure AI platforms, agent workflows, and reusable automation patterns. Embed security into SDLC and PDLC through threat modeling, scanning, secrets detection, supply-chain controls, and automated reviews. Develop AWS identity, network, access, and infrastructure guardrails, including zero-trust and privileged-access automation. Own production services, monitoring, incident response, and on-call support while partnering with teams across the company to enable secure self-service workflows.

Build and operate security infrastructure for MongoDB Atlas across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Responsibilities include hardening Linux hosts and containers, implementing cloud security controls, workload identity, vulnerability management, Infrastructure-as-Code, runtime threat detection, and monitoring systems. The role leads initiatives from threat modeling and architecture through deployment and long-term production reliability.

Build and operate security infrastructure protecting MongoDB Atlas across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Responsibilities include hardening Linux hosts and containers, implementing Kubernetes security controls, managing CSPM and workload identity platforms, deploying security controls through Terraform and other IaC tools, and creating monitoring and alerting systems. The role leads initiatives from threat modeling and architecture through implementation, rollout, and ongoing production reliability.

Conduct research on vulnerabilities and risks in AI systems, develop hardware, software, and algorithmic protections for trustworthy AI, and collaborate across research, hardware, software, and product teams. Publish original research and present findings at conferences. The role requires deep expertise in a security area such as applied cryptography, programming languages, software systems, computer architecture, or AI/ML, along with experimental research and strong coding skills.

Secures Snyk’s GCP and AWS cloud platforms through threat modeling, IAM hardening, Kubernetes and container security, Terraform and pipeline fixes, CSPM integration, and secure configuration baselines. Uses AI coding agents and MCP integrations to scale infrastructure remediation while reviewing changes for unsafe defaults, excessive permissions, and agent-related risks. Works consultatively with platform teams to implement and measure security improvements.

Owns enterprise AI security assessment, architecture, and control programs. The role evaluates AI systems, vendors, platforms, and shadow AI; designs secure architectures, guardrails, identity models, sandboxes, gateways, and runtime controls; and develops detection and response capabilities for prompt injection, jailbreaks, data leakage, and tool misuse. The engineer partners with governance, identity, platform, engineering, and security operations teams, advises senior leaders, drives remediation, and mentors security professionals.

Leads enterprise AI security and GenAI data protection, owning the AI Gateway from evaluation through deployment and operations. Designs monitoring, coaching, redaction, quarantine, and blocking controls for prompts, uploads, browser traffic, copilots, agents, and integrations. Integrates telemetry with security and identity platforms, establishes governance and exception processes, measures control effectiveness, and supports audit and regulatory readiness while enabling responsible AI adoption.

Lead Buffer’s security strategy and execution as a hands-on security engineer. Responsibilities include application and API security, secure development practices, AI threat modeling, incident leadership, vulnerability disclosure, SOC 2 and customer compliance, security automation, and infrastructure risk assessment. The role partners closely with engineering and business teams, writes and reviews code, supports on-call operations, and establishes security standards in a distributed SaaS environment.

Provides technical leadership for cybersecurity engineering on AWACS aircraft and ground-system modernization programs. Responsibilities include secure network and communications architecture, RMF compliance, ATO/IATT and POA&M development, cyber risk assessments, avionics and mission-system integration, TEMPEST compliance, security requirements, and design reviews. The role supervises personnel and collaborates with systems, software, avionics, and test engineering teams. Active Secret clearance and significant military aviation cybersecurity experience are required, with 25–35% domestic and international travel.

Own and scale Jellyfish’s security engineering program, including strategy, architecture, secure SDLC governance, AI security, threat modeling, vulnerability remediation, incident response, penetration testing, and bug bounty programs. The role combines hands-on software development with executive advising, cross-functional leadership, mentorship, and security risk management across SaaS infrastructure and customer-facing AI products.