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Software Engineer, Security

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Software Engineer, Security in USA

  • San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate identity and access services covering authentication, authorization, access governance, secrets, and privileged access.
  • Improve customer environment configuration so identity, access, policies, and integrations are secure by default and easy to manage.
  • Build identity controls, agent sandboxes, and safety harnesses with least privilege, constrained actions, auditability, and monitoring.
  • Create secure-by-default libraries, paved-road abstractions, self-service tooling, and agentic workflows for security operations.
  • Design, deploy, and own the reliability and security of production security systems.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and incident response for mission-critical security services.
  • Contribute through design reviews, code reviews, documentation, and engineering collaboration.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of software engineering experience, including shipping and operating production services.
  • Experience building or contributing to security infrastructure such as identity and access management, authentication and authorization, secrets management, or privileged access.
  • Strong programming, debugging, testing, and problem-solving skills across unfamiliar systems and domains.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure such as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or Amazon Web Services, plus familiarity with distributed-system patterns.
  • Ability to translate security requirements into maintainable, automated systems.
  • Experience using agentic coding tools and creating automated workflows for repetitive security work, with the judgment to review outputs critically.
  • Clear communication and collaboration skills, including explaining technical risks, decisions, and tradeoffs.
  • Working knowledge of common vulnerability classes and attacker-oriented system failure analysis.
  • Preferred experience building security infrastructure at a fast-growing company, using SCIM, OpenID Connect, SAML, policy engines, or hardware-backed credentials.
  • Preferred experience securing agentic or AI-powered systems and working in highly regulated enterprise environments.

Salary: $161k - $245k/yr

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