Webflow

Product Security Engineer, Operating System

Webflow

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Palo Alto • California • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $175,000 - $187,500 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

Linux

About the role

  • Develop and maintain secure critical services for Linux system
  • Implement secure boot chains from fused hardware keys, ensuring verified OS and data partitions with rollback protection
  • Integrate OP-TEE to safeguard sensitive assets such as mTLS certificates and disk encryption keys
  • Harden system services using least-privilege operations, systemd features, namespacing, and syscall filtering
  • Build hardening templates and automation tools to streamline security boundary enforcement for developers
  • Automate security validation processes within CI/CD pipelines
  • Design and enforce device access controls for Linux systems
  • Ensure sensitive operations and data remain protected while enabling developers to maintain security best practices

Requirements

  • Experience contributing and shipping C/C++ code (or similar) to production
  • Strong experience with Linux operating system internals and security mechanisms
  • Hands-on expertise with secure boot and verified boot implementations
  • Familiarity with Trusted Execution Environments (e.g., OP-TEE or similar)
  • Proven track record of applying least-privilege principles and hardening root-level services
  • Proficiency with systemd and sandboxing, including namespacing, privilege restrictions, syscall filtering, and other techniques
  • Experience designing security tools, automation, and templates for developers
  • Knowledge of device access control and Linux permissions management
  • Solid understanding of CI/CD integration for security validation
  • Experience with NVIDIA Orin or similar SoC platform preferred
  • Expertise in software development, including code auditing
Benefits
  • Salary Range: $175,000 – $187,500
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Paid time off and holidays

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard skills
CC++Linuxsecure bootTrusted Execution EnvironmentssystemdsandboxingCI/CDcode auditingNVIDIA Orin
Soft skills
security best practicesautomationdesignintegrationcollaboration