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Staff Software Engineer, Platform Security
At a Glance
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area or
- Work Regime
- remote
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Compensation
- or this full-time position is $248,000 to $279,000 + equity + benefits. Our sala
- Posted
- 2026-03-11T21:19:26-04:00
Key Requirements
Required Skills
Domain Knowledge
- Education
- Engineering
Requirements
5+ years of experience building and operating production systems or infrastructure
5+ years of experience writing software in a general-purpose programming language (we mainly use Python and Rust)
4+ years of experience securing systems with millions of users
Experience mentoring junior ICs and leading technical projects involving multiple engineers and spanning multiple quarters
Experience designing and building software for customers (internal or external) beyond your immediate team
Experience securing cloud environments (e.g. GCP, Cloudflare, AWS)
Responsibilities
Shape company-wide security strategy and lead software engineering projects on a highly-autonomous and horizontally-integrated team with a lot of leverage.
This is a code-forward role!
Develop and apply best-in-class secure baselines for cloud infrastructure.
Secure first- and third-party software supply chains, from the dev environment through CI/CD and into production.
Build and own identity and access management (IAM) systems that are user-friendly and promote least privilege.
Manage infrastructure vulnerabilities while supporting rapid growth for Engineering.