Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Corporate systems security has become a distinct discipline inside SaaS companies, where the product may be cloud native but the operational attack surface spans identity, endpoints, and a growing catalog of internal applications. This Senior Corporate Systems Security Engineer role sits at that intersection, focusing on the controls that enable employees to work securely across locations while protecting sensitive company and customer information.
For a long-term SaaS security career, the work maps closely to recurring patterns across modern subscription businesses: standardising access through SSO and provisioning, building reliable onboarding and offboarding automation, and strengthening monitoring and incident response around corporate tooling. Experience with protocols like SAML, OIDC, and SCIM, plus hands-on ownership of IAM and endpoint security, transfers well across SaaS environments where integrations and auditability matter as much as raw infrastructure.
This role tends to suit practitioners who prefer building and operating security mechanisms rather than writing policy alone, and who are comfortable coordinating with IT, Engineering, and business functions to land changes. It also fits someone who enjoys iterative improvement, staying current on threat trends, and taking accountability through structured intake or on-call processes.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Your role
As a Sr. Corporate Systems Security Engineer, you’ll own the security, integrity, and engineering of our internal corporate systems. You’ll work closely with our IT and Security teams to deliver cross-functional projects, tackle complex technological challenges, and provide creative solutions that help our employees be productive and secure from anywhere.
You’ll also help create a highly resilient infrastructure that safeguards internal systems, the company, and customer data. In addition, you’ll bring a passion for information security and a strong learning mindset to a hands-on technical role, continuously working with various applications and cutting-edge technologies.
This position reports to our Chief Security Officer and has the opportunity to be based in our Austin or Vancouver office.
What you’ll do
- Deploy and manage tools to secure and monitor our corporate systems.
- Integrate applications into our access management system, such as Okta, for single sign-on and user provisioning.
- Automate key security and IT processes, including onboarding and offboarding.
- Recommend solutions to enhance the security posture of our corporate systems.
- Respond to security incidents and investigate their root causes.
- Proactively set up and monitor the security framework of corporate systems.
- Stay up to date on the latest security threats and trends.
- Automate onboarding, offboarding, and business processes using automation platforms/APIs.
- Participate in an on-call rotation for our security intake process.
- Build relationships with key stakeholders across IT, Security, Engineering, People Ops, Finance, and Business Operations.
- Actively engage in key initiatives around Identity and Access Management (IAM), Endpoint Security, Change Management, and Service Management.
Skills you’ll bring
- 7+ years of technical work experience in an information security or security-focused IT role.
- Advocate for security best practices and principles.
- Expertise in security technologies, including Identity and Access Management (IAM), Endpoint Protection, Email Security, Patch Management, SIEM, etc.
- Knowledge of SAML SSO, OIDC, and SCIM protocols.
- Experience with zero-trust access models and implementing solutions to support zero-trust within modern cloud companies.
- Experience deploying and administering corporate security and identity management platforms.
- Experience with macOS and Windows endpoint security and hardening.
- Okta administration and workflow automation are highly desired.
- Industry certifications such as CISSP, SSCP, or Security+.
- Passion for continuous learning and helping others.
- Ability to dive into technical challenges and get hands-on with technology solutions.
- Strong communication, technical, and analytical skills.
