Software Engineer, Security

Skills and Qualifications

• Minimum qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, or similar.
• Proficiency in at least one backend language (we use Python or Rust).
• Strong generalist software engineering background and ability to review production code for security risks.
• Hands-on experience securing web apps and APIs especially auth flows, access control, secrets management, input validation, and data protection.
• Familiarity with common vulnerability classes and prevention frameworks; experience hardening prototypes into production.
• Comfort with modern cloud infrastructure and understanding how application concerns intersect with infrastructure.
• Comfort operating across the stack and owning projects end-to-end.
• Thrive in a highly collaborative environment involving many, different cross-functional partners and subject matter experts.
• A bias for action with a mindset to take initiative to work across different stacks and different teams where you spot the opportunity to make sure something ships.
• Preferred qualifications — we encourage you to apply if you meet some but not all of these:
• Experience securing AI‑powered products or working with ML/LLM APIs and their unique threat models.
• Background in human-computer interaction, especially where security or trust plays a central role in the user experience.
• Strong skills in rapid prototyping and iteration, with a habit of turning ad-hoc fixes into reusable patterns and tools.
• Open‑source security work, bug bounty write‑ups, or published tooling.

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