
Security Engineer – Lead
People Culture Talent
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $200,000 - $400,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Own the product security vision, ensuring security and trust are core to every stage of the product lifecycle.
- Design and implement platform-wide security features, including Sybil resistance, bot detection, reputation systems, and anti-abuse primitives.
- Lead threat modeling and security architecture reviews for new and existing product features.
- Collaborate with infrastructure and product engineering to design secure APIs, data flows, and identity systems that scale.
- Improve developer velocity by creating secure-by-default frameworks and tooling for internal teams.
- Partner with incident response to quickly assess, contain, and remediate security events, and lead deep postmortems to improve defenses.
- Stay ahead of the curve by monitoring emerging attack techniques and applying cutting-edge security research to our platform.
- Mentor engineers across the company on secure coding practices, architecture trade-offs, and operational security.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering or security engineering, including staff-level scope in securing large-scale, user-facing platforms.
- Proven track record designing and implementing systems to detect, mitigate, and prevent adversarial behavior (bots, Sybil attacks, automated abuse).
- Strong experience with threat modeling, secure architecture design, and risk assessment.
- Hands-on experience building security features into production systems at scale (millions of DAU / billions of requests).
- Proficiency in backend development (Node.js, TypeScript, Python, or Go) and willingness to work across the stack when needed.
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems security, identity, and authentication mechanisms.
- Excellent communication skills, able to build alignment across engineering, product, and leadership teams.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and additional support programs.
- The opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI with a small, mission-driven team.
- A culture that values transparency, trust, and community impact.
- Visa sponsorship available.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
threat modelingsecure architecture designrisk assessmentbackend developmentNode.jsTypeScriptPythonGodistributed systems securityidentity and authentication mechanisms
Soft Skills
communicationmentoringcollaborationleadership