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Product Security Engineer

United StatesRemote
Summary

Product Security Engineer strengthening security across Supabase's products, platform, and engineering workflows through threat modeling, code review, and scalable guardrails. Requires strong application security experience and comfort working async in a developer-first environment.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Identify and close gaps across application security, secure design review, and vulnerability management
  • Conduct threat modeling, secure design reviews, and code reviews to identify practical remediation paths
  • Partner closely with engineering teams to provide product-focused security expertise and shape a modern security program
  • Mature how security is integrated in a developer-first environment, balancing pragmatism with strong technical judgment
  • Distinguish between theoretical risk and material business risk to prioritize security efforts effectively
  • Improve security posture through scalable mechanisms like tooling, automation, secure defaults, and developer-friendly guardrails
  • Support security incident response by helping triage, investigate, and coordinate remediation for product and platform security issues
  • Participate in security on-call rotations, helping respond to urgent security events
  • Help manage and mature bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure processes, including triage, validation, prioritization, and coordination with engineering teams

Requirements

  • Strong experience in product security, application security, or security engineering
  • Experience working with cloud-native, developer tools, SaaS, platform, or infrastructure products
  • Clear communication skills across both technical and non-technical audiences, especially in written, asynchronous environments
  • Deep understanding of application security fundamentals, including auth, session management, APIs, and secrets handling
  • Experience with vulnerability triage, bug bounty programs, responsible disclosure, or security incident response
  • Comfortable participating in potential security on-call rotation and balancing urgency, risk, and practical remediation

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with or interest in Postgres, Kubernetes, or building security guardrails that enable rather than enforce
Skills
Application SecurityThreat ModelingSecure Code ReviewVulnerability ManagementBug Bounty ProgramsSecurity Incident ResponseAuth & Session ManagementAPI SecurityKubernetesPostgres