Security Engineer

Security Engineer at Overstory

The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our time—but it’s also the greatest opportunity for innovation, and a challenge we’re proud to take on. At Overstory, we’re harnessing cutting-edge technology to enable a resilient electrical grid that keeps communities thriving as our world changes.

The grid is the backbone of life as we know it. It powers hospitals, keeps food fresh, and ensures communities stay connected. But extreme weather, aging infrastructure, and growing wildfire risks are putting this critical system under pressure. All of this combined makes the electric utility industry the greatest opportunity for tackling climate change.

One of the leading causes of catastrophic wildfires and power outages? Trees and brush coming into contact with power lines.

That’s where we help. At Overstory, we use AI and advanced satellite imagery to pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize. By giving utilities critical analysis on those risks, we’re helping prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks, and accelerate the transition to a safer, more resilient grid.

Our team spans the Americas and Europe, and we work with utility partners across the Americas and beyond. We’re outdoor enthusiasts, musicians, artists, athletes, parents, and adventurers—15 nationalities strong and growing. What unites us is a passion for solving complex problems, a commitment to climate action, and the belief that technology should be a force for good.

Join us to help us build a more resilient world together.

The Role of a Security Engineer

As a Security Engineer you’ll play a key role in safeguarding Overstory’s systems and ensuring trust with our partners and customers. Together with our Director of Information Security and Compliance you will maintain our compliance platform, strengthen our vulnerability management process, support end-users with IT needs, and help us prepare for audits and security reviews.

This role is ideal for someone early in their security career who’s eager to grow into a broader role spanning security, compliance, and IT.

What You’ll Do

• Maintain and improve Overstory’s compliance platform in its support of SOC 2, ISO27001 and other frameworks.
• Monitor and track vulnerabilities across infrastructure and applications, coordinating with and assisting engineering teams for timely remediation.
• Provide limited IT support for onboarding, offboarding, access management, and endpoint security.
• Conduct vendor security reviews to manage third-party risk.
• Support SOC 2 and ISO27001 audit compliance, including evidence gathering and control monitoring.
• Assist with customer security questionnaires and maintain a knowledge base of standard responses.

About You

• You bring 2+ years of experience in IT support, security engineering, or compliance.
• You have knowledge of (or strong interest in learning) security frameworks like SOC 2 or ISO 27001.
• You are familiar with vulnerability management tools and processes.
• You’ve had hands-on experience troubleshooting IT issues (macOS, Windows, SaaS tools, identity management).
• You have strong written communication skills and attention to detail.
• You are proactive, curious, and eager to learn.
• You thrive in a collaborative remote environment and enjoy working across teams.
• You're in EST, CST, MST, or PST time zones in the US or Canada, or CET time zone in Europe.

About Our Team

We are a group of 100 people from all over the world. Fifteen nationalities are represented in our team. We work remotely from eleven different countries and we are looking for candidates that are also living and working in one of these countries: United States, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Estonia, Portugal, France, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, and Canada. We meet up once a year in-person for our unforgettable team gathering event. We also offer the option to occasionally meet up for in-person collaboration.

Diversity & Inclusion

We place enormous value on diversity and inclusion and strive to continually bring in people of all genders, races, creeds, ethnicities, abilities and backgrounds. We believe that the best ideas emerge when people with different perspectives and approaches work together on a problem.

We’re always looking to diversify our team further, but we’re proud of the fact that four out of the nine people on our leadership team are female, 46% of the overall team are female and 20% of the team are people of color. Our team speaks fifteen languages: English, Dutch, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Luxembourgish, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Estonian, Danish and Korean.

Our Values

• Tackling the climate crisis is our greatest mission.
• We act with urgency.
• Our curiosity fuels our growth.
• We recognize that change is constant, and we find joy and power in exploration.
• We’re rooted in diversity.
• Just as ecosystems need biodiversity to thrive, our resiliency comes from our differences.
• We Care For Each Other.
• We love the power of machines but we nurture each other as humans.
• Trust is fundamental.
• We assume the best in everyone, and we share ideas openly so that we have a positive impact.

Use of AI in Our Hiring Process

We sometimes use AI tools to support parts of our hiring process, such as helping us manage applications more efficiently or ensuring job descriptions are clear and inclusive. But don’t worry, all hiring decisions are always made by people, not machines. Any data processed by AI is handled securely in line with GDPR and our Privacy Notice.

Key skills/competency

• Information Security
• Compliance Management
• SOC 2 Framework
• ISO 27001 Standard
• Vulnerability Management
• IT Support
• Endpoint Security
• Risk Management
• Access Management
• SaaS Tools