Product Security Engineer III

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in security analysis, security research, cyber security, security engineering, or relevant area OR Associate's Degree in a related field AND 4+ years experience in security analysis, security research, cyber security, security engineering, or relevant area OR Bachelor's Degree in a related field AND 3+ years experience in security analysis, security research, cyber security, security engineering, or relevant area OR Master's Degree in a related field AND 1+ year(s) experience in security analysis, security research, cyber security, security engineering, or relevant area OR equivalent experience.
• OR Associate's Degree in a related field AND 4+ years experience in security analysis, security research, cyber security, security engineering, or relevant area
• OR Bachelor's Degree in a related field AND 3+ years experience in security analysis, security research, cyber security, security engineering, or relevant area
• OR Master's Degree in a related field AND 1+ year(s) experience in security analysis, security research, cyber security, security engineering, or relevant area
• OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) of experience in building security tooling and implementing solutions in complex environments.
• 3+ years experience programming in at least 2 of these 3 coding languages: Ruby, Go, Python.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with static analysis tools (SAST/DAST), code scanning frameworks, or custom rule authoring.
• Experience building agentic or AI-driven security tooling (e.g., automated triage, classification, or remediation).
• Familiarity with software supply chain security concepts and tooling.
• Experience working in large-scale monolith or distributed service codebases.
• Familiarity with GitHub's products, platform, and developer ecosystem.
• Strong expertise in security principles, including the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), and experience in vulnerability management.

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