About Turion Space
Empowering sustainable satellite operations for critical missions
Key Highlights
- Raised $11.4 million in seed funding
- Aims to produce 45 satellites annually by 2027
- Headquartered in Irvine, CA, with 21-100 employees
- Operates DROID Satellites controlled via the Starfire OS
Turion Space, headquartered at the Irvine Spectrum Center in Irvine, CA, is a satellite manufacturer and operator focused on advancing space sustainability and national security. The company has raised $11.4 million in seed funding to support its innovative DROID Satellites, which clients can contro...
🎁 Benefits
Turion Space offers competitive equity options, flexible PTO policies, and a remote work environment to support work-life balance. Employees also bene...
🌟 Culture
Turion Space fosters a unique culture centered around empowering critical space missions through simplified satellite operations. The company's engine...
Security Engineer • Senior
Overview
Turion Space is hiring a Senior Security Threat Engineer to design automated threat detection and rapid response capabilities for corporate cloud environments. You'll work with tools like SIEM and EDR/XDR while ensuring compliance with NIST 800-171. This position requires 3-7+ years of cybersecurity experience.
Job Description
Who you are
You have 3–7+ years of hands-on cybersecurity or security engineering experience — you've led or supported real-world incident response efforts and are familiar with cloud security logging and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. Your expertise extends to CI/CD pipelines, which you understand are crucial for playbook automation.
You are a vigilant guardian, passionate about forging frontline defenses in next-generation security and compliance programs. Your role involves designing automated threat detection and rapid response capabilities, ensuring real-time alerting to threats facing corporate environments. You have a strong understanding of compliance frameworks such as NIST 800-171 and CMMC, and you advocate for new technologies and architectures that support security requirements.
What you'll do
In this foundational role, you will research, select, and implement processes and tools to improve detection security methodologies. You will support compliance efforts related to NIST 800-171, CMMC, and ITAR/EAR, ensuring that the organization meets all necessary security standards. You will also define security architecture design patterns and evaluate secure solutions based on approved security architecture and emerging risks.
Your responsibilities will include building automation, tooling, and systems that enhance security compliance, observability, and governance. You will monitor and respond to security alerts and incidents, conducting post-incident analysis to improve future responses. Additionally, you will implement and manage tools such as SIEM, EDR/XDR, firewalls, MFA, PAM, DLP, and email security, ensuring that the organization remains secure against evolving threats.
What we offer
This is a full-time onsite position located at our headquarters in Irvine, CA. You will be part of a dedicated team focused on enhancing security measures and compliance protocols. We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't match every requirement, as we value diverse perspectives and backgrounds in our team.
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