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Staff Engineer, Security

220k – 240kNew York, NYSan Francisco, CASeattle, WARemote7+ YOE
Summary

Lead security engineering as the most senior hands-on engineer, shaping multi-year roadmap and building secure-by-default infrastructure including auth, data security, and vulnerability management.

About the role

What You'll Be Doing

  • Define and drive the Security Engineering North Star. Lead the development of a consolidated, multi-year Security Engineering vision — conducting gap analyses, aligning with key stakeholders, and translating strategy into an executable roadmap.
  • Lead the charge on AI-native Security: influence safe and thoughtful adoption of AI tooling at the enterprise level.
  • Build secure-by-default infrastructure. Design, build, and roll out foundational security services — including unified authentication, authorization, audit logging, and egress control.
  • Own data security at scale. Drive systematic data tagging across production data models, aligning with Data Classification Policy.
  • Champion security visibility and accountability. Build company-wide security scorecards for real-time security posture visibility.
  • Enable and empower the engineering organization. Partner with engineering, platform, and product teams to deliver high-leverage, secure-by-default services. Drive automated Least Privilege and systematic Vulnerability Management.

You'll Be a Good Fit If

  • Deep, multi-domain security expertise across Product Security, Cloud Security, Data Security, Access Governance, and/or Detection & Response.
  • Recent, hands-on engineering experience writing code, contributing to security infrastructure, and conducting system design reviews.
  • Built security programs at scale including Security Review, Secure Design, Security Champions, and Security Metrics Reporting.
  • Clear, compelling communicator able to present security strategy and risk to non-technical audiences.
  • Energized by ownership and ambiguity with ability to prioritize ruthlessly.
Skills
Security EngineeringProduct SecurityCloud SecurityData SecurityAccess GovernanceDetection and ResponseAuthenticationAuthorizationAudit LoggingVulnerability Management
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