Security Engineer
Security Engineer drives security improvements across Figma's AI, platform, product, and anti-abuse teams through assessments, tooling development, threat detection, and incident response. Requires 5+ years engineering experience, strong security judgment, and proficiency in a general-purpose language.
About the job
Responsibilities
AI Security:
- Perform technical security assessments, code audits, and design reviews for new AI infrastructure, platforms, and products.
- Design and develop technical solutions to secure AI models, tooling, debugging workflows, and data pipelines.
- Advocate for secure practices across Figma's AI infrastructure, platforms, and data systems.
- Build internal AI-powered access insights and security tooling.
- Help run penetration testing and offensive security exercises against AI infrastructure.
Platform Security:
- Perform technical security assessments, code audits, and design reviews for cloud and corporate infrastructure changes.
- Design and develop solutions to prevent or mitigate cloud and corporate security risks.
- Advocate for secure practices within cloud and corporate infrastructure.
- Build platforms and tooling to detect and respond to infrastructure and corporate security threats.
Product Security:
- Perform technical security assessments, code audits, and design reviews for new product features.
- Design and develop solutions to prevent or mitigate product security vulnerabilities.
- Advocate for secure development practices across products and services.
- Help run penetration testing, offensive security exercises, and support bug bounty program.
- Help respond to product security incidents.
Anti-Abuse:
- Design and build technical systems to prevent spam, fraud, and abuse.
- Partner with product teams to identify and address potential abuse vectors.
- Develop new signals and improve existing signals to detect abusive behavior.
- Help respond to spam, fraud, and abuse incidents.
Requirements
- 5+ years of proven engineering experience in Security Engineering or Software Engineering (with some security experience preferred).
- Strong security judgment in threat modeling and risk prioritization and/or strong technical judgment in designing and building maintainable, scalable systems.
- Proficiency in at least one general-purpose coding language.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with demonstrated experience collaborating across functions.
Nice-to-Haves
- Subject matter expertise in Application Security, Cloud Security, Corporate Security, Data Access Governance, and/or IAM (Identity and Access Management).
- Demonstrated ability to make hard prioritization decisions in security controls.
Skills
Threat Modeling, Code Audits, Design Reviews, Penetration Testing, Cloud Security, IAM, Application Security, Python, JavaScript, Go
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