Senior Product Security Engineer
Build and operate product security systems across applications, APIs, infrastructure, and CI/CD, including AI-assisted code review and automated security controls. The role requires 5+ years in product or application security or software engineering, strong Python skills, and hands-on vulnerability assessment experience.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design and deploy AI-powered security agents into CI/CD for automated code review, risk classification, escalation logic, and, where possible, auto-remediation.
- Build and operate security tooling across pipelines, including SAST, SCA, secrets scanning, IaC validation, and supply chain integrity checks.
- Conduct threat modeling, secure design reviews, and manual security assessments across applications, APIs, and infrastructure.
- Find vulnerabilities through proactive testing and drive them through remediation.
- Partner with engineering teams as an embedded security advisor without becoming a blocker.
- Own the rollout of secure-by-default development frameworks and controls.
- Connect application-level telemetry to detection and response systems.
- Contribute to incident response and postmortems involving product security.
- Shape the long-term product security strategy and roadmap.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in product security, application security, software engineering, or a combination.
- Experience building or operating AI-assisted security tooling, such as code-review agents, automated triage pipelines, or custom security automation.
- Strong Python experience.
- Deep expertise identifying and exploiting web, API, and application vulnerabilities beyond the OWASP Top 10.
- Experience embedding security into CI/CD.
- Ability to guide engineers through secure design decisions.
- Strong documentation and design-documentation skills.
Nice-to-Haves
- Familiarity with FastAPI, LangChain, or agentic frameworks.
- Experience with HIPAA or healthcare data.
- Red-team experience.
- Security architecture experience at scale.
Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Flexible working hours.
- Dynamic work environment encouraging creativity and innovation.
Skills
Python, FastAPI, LangChain, CI/CD, SAST, Sca, Secrets Scanning, Infrastructure As Code, Threat Modeling, Application Security, Api Security, Owasp Top 10, Red Teaming, HIPAA, Security Architecture
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