Security Engineer

About Starburst

Starburst delivers enterprise intelligence at scale by giving organizations secure, governed access to all their data, wherever it lives. Built for distributed data environments, Starburst helps enterprises power AI and analytics without the cost and complexity of traditional data consolidation. With open standards including Trino and Apache Iceberg, Starburst enables trusted access to complete enterprise context while helping organizations avoid vendor lock-in. Leading global enterprises trust Starburst to fuel AI, analytics, and enterprise intelligence. Learn more at starburst.ai .

About the role

As a Security Engineer II, you'll help advance Starburst's Application Security program by building the automation and tooling that allows a small team to secure a large engineering organization. You'll take security problems and turn them into reliable, automated systems, using AI where it adds leverage. This is a hands-on engineering role: you'll write production code, integrate security checks into CI/CD pipelines, and build automation and guardrails the program depends on.

You don't need deep specialist expertise in vulnerability management or offensive security. What matters is a solid information security foundation, strong engineering skills, and the judgment to make sound security tradeoffs. This role offers room to grow your security depth and take on broader product security responsibilities over time.

You'll work closely with Engineering and Product.

As a Security Engineer at Starburst you will:

• Build automation and tooling for the Application Security program , turning manual, repetitive, or hard-to-scale security work into reliable automated systems, increasingly powered by AI.

• Integrate security into the development lifecycle , enabling automated security che

Department: Engineering