Senior Security Engineer

About Bridgewater  

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors.  

Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world’s markets and economies work — using cutting edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles.  

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment for excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture.  

Explore more information about Bridgewater on our website here.  

Our Culture  

Bridgewater’s unique success is the direct result of our unique way of being. We want an idea meritocracy in which meaningful work and meaningful relationships are pursued through radical truth and radical transparency. We require people to be extremely open, air disagreements, test each other’s logic, and view discovering mistakes and weaknesses as a good thing that leads to improvement and innovation. It is by continually striving together for the highest levels of truth and excellence that we create meaningful work and meaningful relationships. Within this culture, Diversity and Inclusion is a top priority because it is essential to finding the best talent in the world, enabling our idea meritocracy, and creating an environment where all types of people can thrive. We have a full-time team as well as affinity networks that work on these issues - If you would like to learn more, please let your Bridgewater recruiter know.   

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About the Department

The Security Department’s mission is to protect Bridgewater. We constantly evolve our cyber, physical, and staff security practices to meet business needs and stay ahead of the changing threat landscape. 

About the Role

Our Engineering organization is seeking a Senior Security Engineer who thrives at the intersection of security, software engineering, and automation. This role focuses on building secure-by-default platforms that enable fast, reliable, and safe software delivery at scale.

You will play a key role in securing CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and developer workflows, while partnering closely with DevOps, platform, and application teams to embed security controls directly into code and tooling. This is a highly collaborative, high-impact role where strong technical execution, sound judgment, and the ability to influence within and across teams are critical.

As a Senior Security Engineer, you will contribute to security architecture, help implement best practices, and drive improvements across infrastructure and application security. You’ll work closely with peers and stakeholders to solve complex problems, support secure design decisions, and help advance Bridgewater’s security-first engineering culture.

What You’ll Do

• Partner with application, platform, infrastructure, and cloud teams to ensure secure, scalable delivery of technology solutions
• Design and implement security solutions that are reusable, automated, and adoptable across teams
• Participate in infrastructure, IaC, application, CI/CD, and cloud security reviews
• Embed security controls directly into developer workflows, pipelines, and platforms
• Communicate technical decisions and risk tradeoffs clearly to engineering teams and stakeholders
• Contribute to the design and implementation of security initiatives and improvements
• Advocate for pragmatic security controls that balance risk reduction with developer velocity and business value
• Apply strong technical judgment to solve problems in distributed, cloud-based systems

Core Requirements

• You are a passionate engineer, and:
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