Security Engineering

Location: Kfar Saba, IL (hybrid)

ERGO NEXT's mission is to help entrepreneurs thrive. We’re doing that by building the only technology-led, full-stack provider of small business insurance in the industry, taking on the entire value chain and transforming the customer experience. 

Simply put, wherever you find small businesses, you’ll find ERGO NEXT.

Since 2016, we’ve helped hundreds of thousands of small business customers across the United States get fast, customized and affordable coverage. We’re backed by industry leaders in insurance and tech, and we still have room to grow — that’s where you come in.

As a fast-growing, cloud-native company, we aren't just protecting our infrastructure,we are building the security foundation that enables our scale. To drive this vision, our Security Engineering team operates at the absolute forefront of the field, embedding secure-by-design capabilities directly into our engineering DNA.

We are looking for a Security Engineering Tech Lead to shape our long-term strategy, advance our automation, and deepen developer trust across the organization. This is a rare opportunity to directly influence the technical direction of a high-scale platform while mentoring a talented team of engineers, without losing your hands-on edge.

What You’ll Do: 

• Shape and execute our cloud-native security strategy, serving as the technical lead for AWS, Kubernetes, and IAM architecture.
• Partner closely with Platform Engineering to build reusable security capabilities into the engineering platform.
• Scale our security posture by engineering self-service guardrails and automated controls that allow product teams to ship faster, safely.
• Standardize security patterns and reference architectures that enable cross-organization scalability while reducing friction for engineering teams.
• Drive secure adoption of AI-assisted development, agentic workflows, and developer productivity platforms.
• Elevate the team's technical maturity by mentoring engineers, refining design reviews, and fostering a culture of security ownership.

What We Need: 

• 7+ years in security engineering, cloud security, or a related technical security role
• At least 2 years in a tech lead, staff-level, or mentorship capacity
• Strong hands-on AWS security experience across IAM, networking, workload security, logging, monitoring, and cloud-native services.
• Strong Kubernetes and containerized environment security knowledge
• Experience with IaC, CI/CD security, distributed systems, identity, and access control