Security Engineer

📋 Job Overview

LENS’s mission is to end traffic accidents. LENS prevents accidents and saves lives by detecting hazards to prevent accidents before they happen. LENS Detect scans CCTV feeds on highways to identify hazards, in real-time, before they become accidents. Public Safety agencies, alongside Departments of Transportation, receive alerts on the LENS Detect dashboard about Disabled Vehicles, Stalled Big Rigs, and Pedestrians on Freeway. A dispatcher reviews and validates the detection, and then dispatches an officer to the scene to assist the person in need — resulting in either preventing an accident or saving a life.

🏢 About LENS

LENS is a company dedicated to preventing traffic accidents through real-time hazard detection using AI technology. We partner with public safety agencies and departments of transportation to provide critical alerts and assistance, ultimately saving lives.

🎯 The Role

As a Security Engineer at LENS, you seek transformational change. You do not accept the status quo that accidents are an accepted inevitability, or that they just happen. Instead, you believe when the root cause of an accident can be known in advance, the accident can and should be prevented. You work with fellow Preventers that share this core belief, using LENS to prevent accidents and save lives.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Working closely with our Co-Founder and CTO to design, implement, and operate the security architecture that protects LENS products, its data, and the public safety agencies that depend on it.
• Owning the security posture of LENS end-to-end - from cloud infrastructure and network security to application-layer controls, identity and access management, and data protection across the full stack.
• Leading LENS's compliance and authorization programs, including FedRAMP and GovRAMP, ensuring LENS meets the security requirements of government agency customers and is positioned to expand into new agency relationships.
• Embedding security into the engineering culture - conducting threat modeling, security reviews, and penetration testing, and working directly with engineers to ensure security is designed in, not bolted on.
• Detecting, responding to, and learning from security events - building the monitoring, alerting, and incident response capabilities that ensure LENS can identify and contain threats before they impact agencies or operations.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Building and operating security architecture for cloud-native and AI platforms, including experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure security services, IAM and Organizational Policy Design, API Gateway Scoping, network segmentation, and KMS/encryption at rest and in transit.
• Leading or significantly contributing to FedRAMP, SOC 2, or equivalent government compliance programs - including documentation, control implementation, continuous monitoring, and working with third-party assessors.
• Hands-on experience with application security, including threat modeling, secure code review, vulnerability management, and penetration testing. Experience with OWASP ZAP, OX suites is ideal.
• Building security monitoring, detection, and incident response capabilities using SIEM tooling, log aggregation, and alerting frameworks in production environments. Experience with Splunk or GSO is ideal.
• Being a collaborative security partner to engineering teams - translating security requirements into actionable guidance without creating friction that slows the mission down.
• Delivering security outcomes that meet the demands of government agency customers in Public Safety and Transportation, where trust is non-negotiable and reliability is a baseline expectation.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Mindset grounded in security as a Preventer's work, simultaneously setting foundation while keeping an open mind, and fostering a culture where everyone is on the security team.
• Principles of removing single points of failure, beginning with the end in mind, and investing time where it makes the most progress.

🎁 Benefits

LENS is an equal opportunity employer committed to building an inclusive workplace. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

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