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Senior Security Engineer

222k – 278kSan Francisco, CANew York, NYBoston, MADenver, COHybrid7+ YOE
Summary

Senior Security Engineer embeds with engineering teams to enhance cloud and product security, leads production security improvements, and implements secure platform features using AWS/GCP. Requires 7+ years in security engineering with strong software background.

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Lead Internal Security’s work to improve our production security
  • Embed with our Infrastructure and App Dev teams
  • Help design, and implement, platform security features
  • Set our production security priorities, strategy, and roadmap
  • Create, deploy and operate production security tooling (both custom solutions, as well as third-party tools)
  • Be one of the primary owners of our internal Semgrep.dev instance

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in security engineering or product security roles
  • Excellent technical project management and interpersonal skills
  • Deep expertise across a variety of security domains; with an emphasis on Cloud Security, Product Security, and Securing Engineering
  • Able to be a senior contributor, embedded within our Engineering teams
  • Enjoy leading technical projects as well as contributing to cross-functional teams
  • Experienced with securing modern cloud-based applications, with hands on building secure solutions with AWS or GCP primitives

Compensation

Salary Range: $222,000-278,000 (for San Francisco Bay Area) Includes equity and benefits in addition to salary.

Skills
AWSGCPCloud SecurityProduct SecuritySemgrepSecurity ToolingInfrastructure SecurityApplication SecurityPlatform SecurityProduction Security
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