Security Engineer
Namespace is hiring a Security Engineer for a remote role open to applicants in Switzerland. It pays $200k-$250k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Namespace.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this cybersecurity role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
- Pay on this posting starts 26% higher than the typical cybersecurity posting on Level.
- This is listed as a remote role.
- The posting mentions security engineering, firewalls and vulnerability assessment among its tools and skills.
- Namespace has 13 other open roles on Level.
AI in this role
Own and strengthen security across systems, networks, and infrastructure as a Security Engineer.
We're proud to work with many incredible companies, accelerating their ability to build their products.
We've spent years watching talented engineering teams lose momentum to the same frustrating bottleneck: waiting. Waiting for CI to finish. Waiting for builds to complete. Waiting for tests to run.
After experiencing this pain firsthand at companies of every size, we set out to build the developer infrastructure platform we'd always wanted to use. Something that would seamlessly integrate with our workflows and the tools teams already love—but make everything dramatically faster and more cost-effective.
Today, we're already accelerating hundreds of companies around the world, helping them ship features instead of waiting for infrastructure. We've built something that feels almost magical in its simplicity: change your runs-on line, mount your toolchain cache directory and suddenly your builds are 5x faster.
About the role
As a Security Engineer at Namespace, you'll own and strengthen security across our systems, network, and infrastructure. You'll work closely with engineering and operations to identify vulnerabilities, build security measures and best practices, and ensure security is embedded into how we build and operate.
Our culture
We're looking for people with grit—people who push through ambiguity, take ownership, and keep going when things get hard. You're deeply curious, driven to understand how things work and how they can be improved. Most importantly, you have a strong bias to execution: you don't wait for perfect conditions, you ship, learn, and iterate quickly. If you care about building, moving fast, and making real impact, you'll fit right in.
What you'll do
Design and build novel firewalls, intrusion detection systems (IDS), and intrusion prevention systems (IPS) to fortify our servers, networks, and systems
Conduct regular security audits and vulnerability assessments, evaluating technologies and core systems for weaknesses and potential vulnerabilities
Develop security measures to quickly detect and respond to real-time threats and vulnerabilities
Develop security-first guidelines and best practices for the entire organization to follow
Work closely with operations, developers, and other stakeholders to build and maintain a one-team approach to security
Support the sales team with security questionnaires and technical security requirements from customers
What we're looking for
Strong security engineering fundamentals, with hands-on experience securing production infrastructure, systems, and networks
Experience with network security, firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention, vulnerability management, and threat detection and response
Ability to identify security risks and translate them into pragmatic technical solutions
Strong understanding of security best practices across modern cloud and infrastructure environments
Ability to work closely with engineering and operations teams and embed security into existing systems and workflows
Bias toward execution and ownership, with the ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment
You can expect:
Competitive salary and stock options
Flexible working hours
Market-leading parental leave
Life at Namespace Labs:
We pride ourselves in being a small team of experts that can achieve a lot.
We balance our long-term vision with short-term pragmatism.
We believe in being fully transparent internally on how decisions are made, on how the company is doing, and we use that information to drive our decisions.
How we rate this
Security Engineer at Namespace rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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Skills and AI tools this role asks for
Also common in cybersecurity jobs at this level
Pay
- This job starts at
- $200k
- Typical cybersecurity job
- $159k
This posting starts 26% above the typical cybersecurity job. See cybersecurity jobs
Questions you could be asked
- Tell me about a project where security engineering was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where firewalls was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where vulnerability assessment was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where incident response was part of your work. What did you do?
Adapt your resume
- List these exact terms on your resume: Security Engineering, Firewalls, Vulnerability Assessment, and Incident Response. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
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