Lead Application Security Engineer

Job Title

Lead Application Security Engineer

Remote in USA & Canada (offices in SF, NY, and Austin)

$220K - $320K

Open to visa transfers (e.g. OPT, H1B transfers)

Competitive Equity

Type Script, Go, Cloud:
Multi-cloud across AWS, Azure, and GCP

They'll work closely with our VP of Engineering and own application security end-to-end. Some problems they'll be working on include multi-tenant isolation, sub-tenant access control, cloud security across multi-region/multi-cloud infrastructure, and internet-facing APIs processing 100K+ events/sec.

Seeking a security engineer with a computer science background. Candidate should ideally be an early hire or have experience building security practices from the ground up.

Must pass technical interviews and have experience with application security. Experience with data infrastructure or security-centric companies like Okta is beneficial.

Looking for candidates with fast growth, impact, and lead role experience.

Minimum of 6years of experience as a security engineer with deep knowledge of distributed systems.

• Been an early security hire (first
  3) at a SaaS product or data infrastructure company
• Must have gone from Backend software engineer ->
  Security engineer

CS, Math, or Physics degree

• Expereince securing systems across multi-cloud and/or multi-region infrastructure
• Securing multi-tenant platforms: tenant isolation, authorization models, etc
• Privacy-adjacent security (PII handling, data residency, GDPR/CCPA technical controls)

Average tenure longer than 2 years

Open to managers who want to move back in fully IC positions

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