Staff Security Engineer, Cloud and Product Security
Lob
| Company | Lob |
| Category | Engineering |
| Location | United States |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Not stated |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 5 Aug 2026 |
| Last verified | 12 Aug 2026 |
| Source | Employer ATS (greenhouse) |
Description
Lob was founded in 2013 by technical co-founders with a vision to connect the world one mailbox at a time. Today, we're transforming the way businesses use direct mail and bringing the power of technology to a traditionally manual channel.
Our modern logistics and fulfillment engine helps businesses to build and scale high-quality, personalized direct mail programs without the operational burden. As we grow to meet the evolving needs of our customers and expand our product offerings, we’re building a team to shape the future of direct mail. About the role
This is the senior technical security role at Lob and the first hire in a newly split security function. You will own the engineering side of security: cloud infrastructure, detection and response, application security, and incident response. A dedicated GRC counterpart owns audit, compliance, and customer trust, so you are not the questionnaire desk. You will partner with them, not absorb them.
You will report directly to the CTO, manage our application security contractor, and work day to day with our Platform, Logistics, and IT teams. This is a builder role with real autonomy and a mandate to raise the security floor of a system that processes hundreds of requests per second and moves millions of physical mailpieces.
What you will own
Cloud infrastructure security
Security posture of our AWS environment, including our CNAPP program and cloud misconfiguration risk
Security review of infrastructure changes across Terraform, Nomad, and our Cloudflare edge
WAF strategy and tuning at the domain level
Working with Platform engineers so security is designed in rather than reviewed at the end
Detection and response
Build and own our detection engineering practice on our SIEM, moving us from noisy alert channels to curated, high signal detections
Define alert triage ownership, runbooks, and severity criteria
Own security incident response: escalation paths, tabletop exercises, post incident reviews
Partner with IT on endpoint detection and endpoint vulnerability coverage
Application and product security
Own the vulnerability management program across SCA, SAST, DAST, and container scanning
Manage and mentor our application security contractor, and route remediation work into engineering teams effectively
Threat modeling and security architecture review for new products and major changes
Improve secure SDLC practice in a high velocity, AI-assisted engineering org
Penetration testing and assurance
Technical ownership of our annual independent penetration test: scoping, findings triage, remediation routing, retest coordination
Produce the technical evidence our GRC counterpart needs for SOC 2, HIPAA, and Microsoft SSPA, without owning the audit itself
Security engineering and automation
Build tooling and automation rather than process and spreadsheets
Apply AI to security operations where it creates real leverage
What we are looking for
Required
8 or more years in security engineering, with meaningful depth in cloud security
Hands on expertise with AWS security services, IAM design, and infrastructure as code
Demonstrated detection engineering experience: you have written detections, tuned them, and cut false positive rates
Real incident response experience as a responder or lead, not just as a plan author
Fluency in application security sufficient to review findings, judge severity, and argue exploitability with engineers
Track record of shipping security improvements through other teams by earning trust rather than filing tickets
Comfort as the senior technical security voice in an organization without a large security team
Nice to have
Experience supporting SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA, or Microsoft SSPA from the engineering side
Container and orchestrat