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Senior Security Engineer, Proactive Security

Seattle, Washington, United States💼 Full-time💰 $178,400–$226,700🗓 2026-06-09 → 2026-09-25

Core

Senior individual contributor driving security initiatives across multiple services, focusing on application security, threat modeling, and secure system design.

Role type

Senior IC security engineer (proactive security)

Builds

Security automation, tooling, and processes; self-service guidance and readiness frameworks

Domain

Cloud security, distributed systems, service-oriented architectures

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

threat modeling, penetration testing, manual code review, security architecture, scripting/programming (Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, Go), mentoring, metrics definition

Preferred skills

security in microservices, risk identification techniques

Technologies

generative AI, machine learning, command line tools

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end security reviews and threat modeling; conduct manual code reviews; scope and oversee penetration testing; design and build security automation; mentor junior engineers; define and track security metrics

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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