Ruby on Rails + Cybersecurity Engineer

Job Description: Ruby on Rails + Cybersecurity Engineer

Search Guidance

Location: open

• Required skills: Ruby on Rails plus cybersecurity or security
• Total experience: 5+ years
• Opportunity: a full-time contract of 40 hours a week (8 a day)
• Notice period: no more than 2 weeks
• Length of engagement: 6–12 months
• Required overlap: 5 hours with Pacific Time

About the Role

The company wants a Ruby on Rails and cybersecurity engineer for its team. The focus is building secure, scalable, AI-driven software while following good security practice. You'll work where cybersecurity, AI, and software engineering meet, helping shape secure development with AI built in.

Key Requirements

Programming Skills (Mandatory)

• Ruby on Rails: back-end work, API design, and architecture that scales
• Security know-how: OWASP Top 10, secure coding, and compliance standards

Additional Technical Skills (Preferred)

• SQL: tuning queries and designing relational databases
• Python: automation, AI/ML integration, and building APIs
• Java: back-end services and securing enterprise apps
• JavaScript: front-end or full-stack work

Fundamental Requirements

• Cybersecurity Best Practices: knows secure coding, vulnerability assessment, and compliance frameworks in depth.
• Application Security & Secure Coding: has carried out threat modelling, pen testing, and secure development.
• Problem-Solving & Algorithmic Thinking: can diagnose problems, improve solutions, and strengthen system design.
• Prompt Engineering & AI Tools: uses ChatGPT or similar to work faster while weighing AI bias and security risk.
• Software Development & Code Analysis: produces tidy, modular code driven by tests.

Ideal Candidate Profiles

• A cybersecurity engineer with deep Ruby on Rails skills
• An application security engineer who has worked with AI/ML
• A machine-learning engineer who comes from cybersecurity

Details

• Position type: long-term contract
• Hours: full-time (40 a week), overlapping Pacific Time by 5 hours
• Engagement length: 3 months
• Notice period: 2 weeks at most
• Location: open (apart from locations Turing restricts)
• Benefits: none for medical or paid leave (contractor)

Why Join Us?

• Join an AI-driven company shaping where cybersecurity goes next.
• Work on high-impact projects alongside experts from many fields.
• Flexible, remote-friendly work that supports learning and new ideas.

If Ruby on Rails and cybersecurity excite you and you want an AI-focused setting, the company would like to hear from you!

Application process

Submit your application through NorthStar. Employer screening may follow after submission.