Security Engineer

About TripleLift

We're TripleLift, an advertising platform on a mission to elevate digital advertising through beautiful creative, quality publishers, actionable data and smart targeting. Through over 1 trillion monthly ad transactions, we help publishers and platforms monetize their businesses. Our technology is where the world's leading brands find audiences across online video, connected television, display and native ads. Brand and enterprise customers choose us because of our innovative solutions, premium formats, and supportive experts dedicated to maximizing their performance.

As part of the Vista Equity Partners portfolio, we are NMSDC certified, qualify for diverse spending goals and are committed to economic inclusion. Find out how TripleLift raises up the programmatic ecosystem at triplelift.com.

The Role

TripleLift is seeking a Security Engineer to join our team full time. We are an established company in the advertising technology sector, trying to tackle some of the most challenging problems facing the industry. You will be joining a rapidly growing and complex environment and will work as part of a small team that will be responsible for developing, evangelizing, and executing our security roadmap. You’ll help drive improvements in our security operations capability and support critical projects enhancing our detect-and-respond capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Support and enhance the organization's global security compliance efforts aligned with frameworks like NIST CSF and CIS Controls
• Monitor and triage security alerts and incidents using SIEM, EDR, and other monitoring tools; escalate and support investigations as needed
• Manage and maintain endpoint security tools (e.g., CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender, SentinelOne) across corporate devices and servers
• Coordinate with IT to ensure consistent endpoint hardening, patching, and policy enforcement
• Contribute to the vulnerability management process by validating, tracking, and helping remediate findings across infrastructure and endpoints
• Assist in the creation and maintenance of detection rules, security dashboards, and runbooks
• Perform initial threat-hunting activities and collaborate with senior engineers on deeper investigations
• Support identity and access management practices (e.g., user provisioning/deprovisioning, privileged access reviews)
• Participate in incident response, including documentation, coordination, and root cause analysis
• Create and maintain security documentation, procedures, and knowledge base articles
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, IT, and compliance teams to support secure operations

Desired Skills and Attributes

• 4+ years of experience in a security engineering or security operations role
• Proven track record working in information security operations, engineering, architecture, or security consulting
• Understanding of security fundamentals with relation to various cybersecurity and compliance frameworks, particularly NIST CSF, but any of: PCI, SOC2, HITRUST, ISO 27001/2, or similar
• Deep understanding of the AWS Cloud, it’s services, technologies and APIs
• Hands-on experience managing endpoint security platforms (EDR, antivirus, MDM) in a corporate environment
• Able to design and evaluate general security controls, as well as how to design effective compensating controls where necessary
• Experience managing tools in a Security Operations Center environment, i.e., monitoring and reacting to SIEM alerts/events
• Deep understanding of how to securely manage cloud-native environments and ability to deploy tools in these environments
• Experience with managing identity and access solutions at scale for a large corporation e.g. Okta
• Practical experience with coding and scripting languages  (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell) to support automation and tooling
• Strong communication and documentation skills
• Strives for continued learning opportunities to build upon craft
• Holds a Cybersecurity certification, e.g. CISSP, CISA, Security+, etc.

Education Requirement

A Bachelor’s degree in a technical subject is preferred, although candidates with relevant experience who hold other degrees will be considered.

Experience Requirement

At least four years of experience working within a security role or related/adjacent role

Location

Pune

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