# Lead Security Engineer

About Buffer We create social media and brand-building software for small businesses, creators, and individuals. Our mission is to provide essential tools to help small businesses get off the ground and grow. Through exceptional customer service and uplifting content, we help our customers believe they can succeed and do good along the way. Buffer is a fully distributed team, and we’ve always aimed to do things a little differently. Since the early days, we’ve focused on building one of the most unique and fulfilling workplaces by rethinking a lot of traditional practices. We also default to transparency, so you can read all about our metrics, and our successes and failures along the way on our Transparency Dashboard. We're united by Buffer's values, and we hire and work from all over the world. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive work environment, and we are building a culture where underrepresented groups are welcome and can flourish. Please note that we do travel to work together in person once or twice per year, and those events are highly encouraged to build deeper connections among our small team. As you get to know Buffer and consider joining the journey, you can lea

- **Id**: 3836476
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/buffer-lead-security-engineer>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_regions
- **Remote scope basis**: inferred_payroll_markers
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries**: DE, FR, GB, AT, BE, BG, HR, CZ, DK, FI, HU, IE, IT, NL, NO, PL, RO, ES, SE, CH, EE, GR, IS, LV, LI, LT, LU, MT, PT, SK
- **Hiring countries total**: 31
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-29T21:32:06Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-29
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T10:46:00Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 7
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9761
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Custom Software Development, Blogging & Newsletter Platforms

## Company

- **Id**: 7234
- **Name**: Buffer
- **Domain**: buffer.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/buffer>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Remote working hours

- **Label**: UTC-3 – UTC+3
- **Utc offset min**: \-3
- **Utc offset max**: 3

## Salary

- **Min**: 171100
- **Max**: 222880
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 222880

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: no
- **Cloudflare** — Optional: no
- **GraphQL** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **PHP** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **SOC 2** — Optional: no
- **Threat Modeling** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: yes
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: yes
- **ArgoCD** — Optional: yes
- **Cloudflare WAF** — Optional: yes
- **Datadog** — Optional: yes
- **Dependabot** — Optional: yes
- **DNS** — Optional: yes
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: yes
- **Gitleaks** — Optional: yes
- **Google Workspace** — Optional: yes
- **IAM** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Node JS** — Optional: yes
- **PagerDuty** — Optional: yes
- **Sentry** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes
- **Zero Trust** — Optional: yes
- **Zoom** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 7

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Germany** — Iso: DE; Kind: region
- **France** — Iso: FR; Kind: region
- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: region
- **Austria** — Iso: AT; Kind: region
- **Belgium** — Iso: BE; Kind: region
- **Bulgaria** — Iso: BG; Kind: region
- **Croatia** — Iso: HR; Kind: region
- **Czech Republic** — Iso: CZ; Kind: region
- **Denmark** — Iso: DK; Kind: region
- **Finland** — Iso: FI; Kind: region
- **Hungary** — Iso: HU; Kind: region
- **Ireland** — Iso: IE; Kind: region
- **Italy** — Iso: IT; Kind: region
- **Netherlands** — Iso: NL; Kind: region
- **Norway** — Iso: NO; Kind: region
- **Poland** — Iso: PL; Kind: region
- **Romania** — Iso: RO; Kind: region
- **Spain** — Iso: ES; Kind: region
- **Sweden** — Iso: SE; Kind: region
- **Switzerland** — Iso: CH; Kind: region
- **Estonia** — Iso: EE; Kind: region
- **Greece** — Iso: GR; Kind: region
- **Iceland** — Iso: IS; Kind: region
- **Latvia** — Iso: LV; Kind: region
- **Liechtenstein** — Iso: LI; Kind: region
- **Lithuania** — Iso: LT; Kind: region
- **Luxembourg** — Iso: LU; Kind: region
- **Malta** — Iso: MT; Kind: region
- **Portugal** — Iso: PT; Kind: region
- **Slovakia** — Iso: SK; Kind: region
- **Slovenia** — Iso: SI; Kind: region

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T21:13:41Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 7
- **Expected fill days**: 34
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-06T05:58:05Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 222880
- **Is top pay**: yes

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