Senior Software Security Engineer New

About this role

## Who we are

Kentik is the network intelligence platform for modern infrastructure teams. Unlike traditional monitoring and observability tools, we demystify complex network operations, enabling organizations to deliver applications and innovation at scale. Built by network experts to make critical insight accessible to every engineer, Kentik is the real-time source of truth that understands every network in context — from data center to cloud to the internet. This single platform unifies and correlates cloud, device, flow, synthetic data to turn telemetry into action. Market leaders like Akamai, Booking.com, Dropbox, and Zoom rely on Kentik to run, manage, and optimize their networks.

### What we do

The Senior Software Security Engineer is a key technical leader within our growing Security organization, responsible for owning and evolving the technical strategy and execution of Kentik’s application and software security programs. This role plays a critical part in shaping the company’s overall security posture and enabling the engineering organization to ship secure software at scale.

As part of a small, dynamic team, the Senior Software Security Engineer acts as a Builder–Defender. They don’t just identify vulnerabilities and respond to threats — they design and build preventative controls, internal tools, and frameworks that embed security directly into our development processes. Operating at the intersection of Application Security and Software Engineering, this role ensures security is a first-class citizen throughout the SDLC while balancing risk, velocity, and developer experience.

### What you'll do

This is an individual contributor role reporting to Kentik’s Chief Security Officer (CSO) with broad impact across the engineering organization and a high degree of autonomy, technical judgment, and influence and has the following responsibilities:

• **Secure SDLC**: Continuously evolve Kentik’s secure SDLC strategy, defining secur...