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Senior Software Engineer, Security

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Senior Software Engineer, Security in USA

  • San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate authentication, authorization, access governance, secrets management, and privileged access services.
  • Own identity infrastructure including SSO, SCIM, and fine-grained enterprise authorization.
  • Build secure-by-default libraries, paved-road abstractions, and self-service security tooling.
  • Take security systems from greenfield architecture through production deployment, instrumentation, and reliability ownership.
  • Contribute to incident response and drive technical mitigation for security issues.
  • Raise security standards through design reviews, code reviews, and technical mentorship.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience shipping and operating production services.
  • Hands-on experience building security infrastructure such as IAM, authentication and authorization, secrets management, or privileged access.
  • Knowledge of common vulnerability classes and the ability to analyze attacker-focused system failures.
  • Strong programming skills and willingness to work across stacks and unfamiliar domains.
  • Experience maintaining production services with agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or similar.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure on Azure, GCP, or AWS and modern distributed system patterns.
  • Ability to translate security requirements into scalable engineering solutions.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to influence without formal authority.
  • Preferred experience building security platforms or programs at hyper-growth startups.
  • Preferred background in developer platform or infrastructure engineering.
  • Preferred experience with SCIM, OIDC, SAML, policy engines such as OPA, Cedar, or Zanzibar-style systems, or hardware-backed credentials.
  • Preferred experience in highly regulated enterprise environments.

Salary: $188k - $282k/yr

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