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Senior Engineer

Washington, DC · full time · Senior

$115,000 – $140,000

Listed on The Atlantic’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

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. The full posting is on their site.

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What they ask for

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