Senior Security Engineer, Later
$145-175k
Influencer marketing and social media management
Be an early applicant
Influencer marketing and social media management
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$145-175k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help the world's top brands create high-performing social content and collaborate with creators to reach new audiences, drive engagement, and generate predictable ROI.
Role
Who you are
- 5-7+ years of experience as a Security Engineer or Software Engineer with a strong security focus
- Proven ability to build and operate production-quality software, automation, and internal tooling
- Strong understanding of application security, infrastructure security, cloud security, secure CI/CD practices, and corporate security controls
- Hands-on experience with vulnerability management, secure software development, threat modeling, remediation workflows, and operational security improvements
- Experience with security frameworks and standards such as OWASP, NIST, CIS Controls, SOC 2, and ISO 27001, and the ability to apply them in production and business environments
- Experience supporting SOC 2 compliance efforts through practical, automated, and auditable controls
- Familiarity with cloud security platforms such as AWS Security Hub, Azure Security Center, or GCP Security Command Center
- Experience with SIEM/SOAR tools, logging and monitoring platforms, detection workflows, and practical incident response processes
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code security scanning for tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
- Ability to translate complex security concepts into clear, actionable guidance for technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience collaborating closely with engineering, IT, compliance, and business teams to improve security outcomes
- Familiarity with C#, modern backend systems, cloud-native architecture, and SaaS business tooling
- Driven by Impact: You deliver results that matter, prioritizing high-value work, meeting deadlines, and adapting quickly while keeping outcomes clear
- Strategic & Customer-Centric: You anticipate risks and opportunities, connect decisions to long-term growth, and build trust through proactive insights
- Curious & Growth-Oriented: You seek knowledge, ask sharp questions, and apply learnings fast, challenging the status quo with a mindset of improvement
- Collaborative & Resilient: You thrive in change by staying resourceful, solution-focused, and positive, removing roadblocks, sharing insights, and keeping morale high
- Accountable & Honest: You own your work, hold yourself and others to a high bar, and use transparent feedback to drive growth
- Emotionally Intelligent: You build trust through empathy and collaboration, foster inclusion, and inspire others with grit, optimism, and integrity
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Senior Security Engineer to strengthen Later's company-wide security posture through hands-on engineering, thoughtful collaboration, and pragmatic standards
- This role blends deep security expertise with strong software engineering skills, with a focus on application security, cloud and infrastructure security, secure development practices, vulnerability management, compliance enablement, and security improvements across our corporate systems and business operations
- You'll partner closely with teams across Engineering, Infrastructure, Product, IT, Legal, People, Finance, and other business functions to embed security into Later's systems, tools, workflows, and operating practices
- A core focus of this role is helping Later mature its security capabilities in support of SOC 2 and other compliance expectations through practical controls, automation, evidence-ready processes, and clear guidance that works across the company
- This role is ideal for a senior security practitioner who thinks like a defender, builds like a software engineer, and leads through influence across both technical and non-technical teams
- Company-Wide Security Strategy & Compliance
- Assess and continuously improve Later's overall security posture across applications, infrastructure, cloud environments, corporate systems, vendor tooling, and business workflows
- Define and implement scalable security standards, best practices, and guardrails that support SOC 2 readiness through practical, automated, and auditable solutions
- Partner with Engineering, Infrastructure, IT, Product, Legal, People, Finance, and business leaders to align security priorities with company goals, risk reduction, and delivery timelines
- Translate SOC 2 and related compliance requirements into sustainable technical and operational controls, procedures, and evidence collection practices
- Identify security gaps across the company, prioritize remediation efforts, and help teams make pragmatic, risk-based decisions
- Support company-wide security awareness, secure operating practices, and adoption of security controls across business teams
- Technical Execution
- Build and maintain internal security tools, automation, and services that support secure development, compliance workflows, vulnerability management, corporate security operations, and operational visibility
- Design and implement security controls within CI/CD pipelines, including secure build and deploy patterns, security scanning, dependency management, container scanning, and secret management
- Support application security efforts, including secure design reviews, threat modeling, code review guidance, API security, microservices security patterns, and remediation planning
- Improve cloud infrastructure and corporate systems security through hardening, monitoring, configuration review, Infrastructure-as-Code security scanning, access reviews, and secure operational patterns
- Collaborate with technical and business teams to identify vulnerabilities and control gaps, explain impact clearly, and drive effective remediation
- Strengthen security observability and response readiness through logging, alerting, detection engineering, incident response improvements, and company-wide security process maturity
- Collaboration & Enablement
- Partner with teams across the company to identify, understand, and fix security issues in a collaborative, non-blocking way
- Provide pragmatic security guidance on designs, implementations, vendor tools, operational practices, and business workflows
- Communicate security risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly across technical and non-technical audiences
- Embed security into development workflows, corporate systems, and company operating practices without slowing teams unnecessarily
- Support SOC 2 and related compliance efforts through automation, well-defined controls, reliable evidence practices, and cross-functional coordination
- Within the first 90 days, you've completed a security posture assessment, identified the highest-priority gaps, and have a remediation roadmap that's been reviewed and socialized with key stakeholders across Engineering, IT, and Leadership
- By 6 months, core SOC 2 controls are documented, automated where possible, and evidence collection is running reliably without manual heroics from any single team
- Security is embedded into Later's CI/CD pipelines, with scanning, secret management, and container security integrated and maintained as a standard part of the development lifecycle
- Teams across Engineering, IT, and the business have a clear point of contact for security questions, a shared understanding of the risk landscape, and security guidance that helps them move faster, not slower
- Later's security observability has materially improved: logging, alerting, and detection coverage are in place, and the company has a documented, practiced incident response process
Our take
Platforms like Instagram, Pinterest, and TikTok have become indispensable for businesses of all sizes, shaping their marketing strategies and driving success. Later specializes in assisting customers in navigating these channels. Offering a visually oriented suite of tools, the marketing platform enables marketing managers to schedule, analyze, and track sales from their content effectively.
Focusing on small businesses, Later is doubling down on its strategy, aiming to provide additional products tailored for marketers at these enterprises while expanding its geographic reach. This expansion of product capabilities not only caters to the evolving needs of small businesses but also helps Later mitigate platform risk from social media companies mimicking its services. Partnerships with platforms like TikTok and Instagram, featuring post scheduling, analytics, and conversation tools, showcase Later's commitment to innovation and staying ahead in the competitive landscape.
Now, the company is entering an exciting new chapter with updates designed to help marketers and creators stay ahead of what's next in social. The platform now offers enhanced analytics, improved collaboration tools, expanded support for platforms like Threads and Snapchat, and smarter insights through innovations such as Future Trends. These developments show Later's commitment to making social media management more intuitive, data-driven, and impactful so brands and creators can build stronger connections and lead the next era in social storytelling.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2015
$1.2m
SEED
Dec 2014
$1.3m
SEED
Total funding: $3.8m
Company benefits
- Learning & development opportunities
- Market competitive compensation
- Hybrid work environment
- Flexible paid time off
- Competitive healthcare benefits
Company HQ
Government Center, Boston, MA
Leadership
Scott Sutton
(CEO)Scott joined lAter in 2023 as COO, becoming CEO in 2024. Previously, he spent 4 years at ZoomInfo, joining as VP of Revenue Operations before becoming Senior VP of Operations and then CBO.
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