Senior Security Engineer

About the company

Our client is a software company.

The role

Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Take charge of security for a software product and the business behind it, covering design reviews, product-level protections, outside assurance work and incident preparedness. The role blends hands-on engineering with setting standards and communicating risk to technical and non-technical audiences.

What you'll do

• Hold overall responsibility for security across application, cloud and network layers.
• Run design reviews and threat assessments for new systems with few established patterns.
• Engineer protective features directly into the product, such as customer data separation, safe secret usage, human sign-off steps and detailed activity records.
• Author the security documentation that prospective technical customers read before adopting the product.
• Coordinate third-party testing, compliance programs and customer security questionnaires and reviews.
• Lead incident preparedness and response, including fast notification commitments.
• Maintain ongoing cloud access auditing and automate automated security checks within build and deployment pipelines.
• Define internal policies for handling sensitive customer secrets, outbound data and device management.

Requirements

What we're looking for

• At least 4 years of hands-on experience in application and infrastructure security.
• Solid coding ability in a modern language such as Python or Go.
• Practical skill at assessing threats and finding vulnerabilities.
• Working knowledge of network security and identity-centered access controls for services and workloads.
• Strong grounding in security on a leading cloud platform, including federated identity and codified infrastructure.
• Skill at explaining risk and trade-offs to both engineers and senior business leaders.
• Comfort operating independently in ambiguous situations.
• Willingness to work in the office five days a week in a fast-paced startup setting.

Bonus points

• Background securing autonomous or code-running systems.
• Deep knowledge of workload isolation and system hardening techniques.
• Experience in offensive security or penetration testing.
• Experience operating a vulnerability reporting or reward program.
• A track record of guiding a company through audits and customer security reviews.
• Familiarity with corporate IT environments and access management tooling.

Benefits

Compensation and benefits

• Base salary: USD 200,000 to 300,000 per year
• Health insurance
• Flexible time off

Location and work model

• San Francisco, CA, United States
• On-site, five days per week
• Full-time