# Senior Engineer

Hiring organization: [The Atlantic](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/the-atlantic)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/80ca8ff7-6ba8-4514-8ac1-be07bf6e611c

Listed on The Atlantic's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Washington, DC
- Salary: 115000 – 140000 USD per year

## Summary

The Atlantic seeks a hands-on security engineer to protect their journalism platform and reader data by designing secure systems, reviewing code and architecture for vulnerabilities, and responding to incidents. This role is ideal for someone who combines backend and infrastructure expertise with security focus and wants to ship trustworthy products for a mission-driven organization.

_Our summary, not The Atlantic's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF), CI/CD, Cloud Platforms, Datadog, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, Microsoft Azure, Sentry, Terraform, Threat Modeling

## Required

- 5+ years of software engineering experience with significant hands-on security engineering work
- Strong backend programming ability and general DevOps work (CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, cloud platforms)
- Deep understanding of secure software design and modern application security practices including zero trust principles
- Hands-on experience with IAM, WAFs, and secure data access controls
- Track record of owning security incidents end-to-end from triage through root cause to durable fixes

## Nice to have

- Experience securing agentic and LLM-driven workflows against over-access, data exfiltration, and backdoors
- Experience developing security tooling and automation
- Familiarity with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform
- Background in consumer-facing web or mobile products
- Experience using observability and monitoring tools (Datadog, Sentry) as security and quality signals
- Familiarity with threat modeling and secure-by-design architecture

Apply on The Atlantic's site: https://atlanticmedia.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Careers/job/Washington-DC---The-Wharf/Senior-Engineer_R723