Mid Level Corporate Security Specialist Jobs
Mid level corporate security specialist jobs call for professionals ready to own investigations end to end, guide junior staff, and make risk assessments with limited oversight. Openings run across Technology & Software, Agriculture & Farming, and Banking & Financial Services, with employers like Pinterest, Airwallex, and Turnkey Foundations competing for corporate security specialists at this level now.
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Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 250,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale. Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US$11 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.
Attributes We Value
We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor. You're humble and collaborative; turn zero-to-one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high-visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next.
About The Team
Airwallex’s Information Security team partners closely with engineering, IT, and other stakeholders to protect our systems, data, and employees while enabling the business to move quickly. The team helps build and maintain strong security practices across the company—from secure product and infrastructure design to risk reduction, incident response, audits, and compliance—so security is built into how we operate, not treated as a blocker.
As a Corporate Security Engineer, you will be a critical part of defending Airwallex’s enterprise systems and employees from threats such as malware, phishing and unauthorized access. This role is a highly technical opportunity to detect, investigate and prevent security issues across a modern corporate environment. You will work on digital forensics, incident response and tool development and deployment, protecting a range of corporate IT platforms from endpoints to identity providers.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to incident response for malware, phishing, digital forensics.
- Design, develop, test, and evaluate new corporate security controls for a rapidly growing business.
- Perform incident response and hunt through log sources to identify new threats.
- Design and implement security alerts and workflows to support the incident response lifecycle.
- Secure corporate IT infrastructure and remediate issues across identity providers, endpoints, corporate networks and other platforms.
- Deploy, configure and operate security tooling with a laser focus on impact.
Who You Are
We’re looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.
Minimum Qualifications
- A passion for solving the complex challenges of high-growth startups.
- Self motivation and drive to learn new skills, or dive deeper into existing skills.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or similar.
- 3+ years working in a security engineering or incident response role within a tech company.
- Strong experience with Crowdstrike, Splunk or other common security monitoring tools.
- In depth understanding of common attacker tools and techniques, how they can be detected and prevented, and ability to respond to incidents with high depth and quality of investigation.
- Experience with GCP, Alibaba Cloud or other cloud platforms is preferred.
- Experience with Okta, Google Workspace and cloud-based VPN services is preferred.
- Experience securing endpoints, including with MDM tooling such as Kandji, Intune.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical security and software concepts to a non-technical audience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong Engineering mindset with scripting experience such as with Python, Bash, Powershell.
Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters
To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page. Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.
Equal opportunity
Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
Compensation Range
$130K - $200K
Location
San Francisco
About Airwallex
Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 250,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale. Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US$11 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.
Attributes We Value
We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor. You're humble and collaborative; turn zero-to-one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high-visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next.
About The Team
Airwallex’s Information Security team partners closely with engineering, IT, and other stakeholders to protect our systems, data, and employees while enabling the business to move quickly. The team helps build and maintain strong security practices across the company—from secure product and infrastructure design to risk reduction, incident response, audits, and compliance—so security is built into how we operate, not treated as a blocker.
As a Corporate Security Engineer, you will be a critical part of defending Airwallex’s enterprise systems and employees from threats such as malware, phishing and unauthorized access. This role is a highly technical opportunity to detect, investigate and prevent security issues across a modern corporate environment. You will work on digital forensics, incident response and tool development and deployment, protecting a range of corporate IT platforms from endpoints to identity providers.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to incident response for malware, phishing, digital forensics.
- Design, develop, test, and evaluate new corporate security controls for a rapidly growing business.
- Perform incident response and hunt through log sources to identify new threats.
- Design and implement security alerts and workflows to support the incident response lifecycle.
- Secure corporate IT infrastructure and remediate issues across identity providers, endpoints, corporate networks and other platforms.
- Deploy, configure and operate security tooling with a laser focus on impact.
Who You Are
We’re looking for people who meet the minimum qualifications for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.
Minimum Qualifications
- A passion for solving the complex challenges of high-growth startups.
- Self motivation and drive to learn new skills, or dive deeper into existing skills.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity or similar.
- 3+ years working in a security engineering or incident response role within a tech company.
- Strong experience with Crowdstrike, Splunk or other common security monitoring tools.
- In depth understanding of common attacker tools and techniques, how they can be detected and prevented, and ability to respond to incidents with high depth and quality of investigation.
- Experience with GCP, Alibaba Cloud or other cloud platforms is preferred.
- Experience with Okta, Google Workspace and cloud-based VPN services is preferred.
- Experience securing endpoints, including with MDM tooling such as Kandji, Intune.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical security and software concepts to a non-technical audience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong Engineering mindset with scripting experience such as with Python, Bash, Powershell.
Applicant Safety Policy: Fraud and Third-Party Recruiters
To protect you from recruitment scams, please be aware that Airwallex will not ask for bank details, sensitive ID numbers (i.e. passport), or any form of payment during the application or interview process. All official communication will come from an @airwallex.com email address. Please apply only through careers.airwallex.com or our official LinkedIn page. Airwallex does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Airwallex will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s). Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to Airwallex on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.
Equal opportunity
Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
Compensation Range
$130K - $200K
Location
San Francisco
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Mid Level Corporate Security Specialist Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a mid level corporate security specialist job?
Position yourself by highlighting hands-on ownership: investigations you led independently, security programs you improved, and cross-functional coordination you managed. Certifications like CPP or PSP signal professional commitment. Tailor your resume to show measurable outcomes, such as incident reduction or audit results, rather than listing duties. Demonstrating that you work with minimal supervision is what separates mid level candidates from junior applicants.
Which companies hire mid level corporate security specialists?
Companies hiring mid level corporate security specialists right now include Pinterest, Airwallex, and Turnkey Foundations, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Organizations at this level tend to be large enough to have dedicated security functions, including corporate headquarters, financial institutions, healthcare systems, and logistics operations that require ongoing threat management and compliance oversight.
Are there remote mid level corporate security specialist jobs?
Yes, though many roles remain on-site given the physical nature of corporate security work. About 60% of mid level corporate security specialist openings are remote or hybrid as of November 2026, and these tend to focus on policy development, risk analysis, security program management, or vendor oversight rather than direct physical security operations.
How do I move up to a mid level corporate security specialist role?
Moving into a mid level corporate security specialist role comes from building a record of independent project ownership over your early career. Focus on completing recognized certifications, taking on lead responsibility for incident response or security audits, and demonstrating measurable improvements to security programs. Employers want to see that you can coordinate with legal, HR, and operations without constant direction from senior staff.
Which industries hire the most mid level corporate security specialists?
Mid Level corporate security specialist roles concentrate in Technology & Software, Agriculture & Farming, and Banking & Financial Services, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors drive hiring because they face elevated regulatory requirements, high-value asset protection obligations, or large employee populations that require structured security programs managed by experienced specialists.