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Senior Security Engineer, Proactive Security

Austin, Texas, United States💼 Full-time💰 $178,400–$226,700🗓 2026-07-28 → 2026-09-25

Core

Senior individual contributor driving security initiatives across multiple services via threat modeling, secure system design, and security reviews.

Role type

Senior IC security engineer (proactive security)

Builds

Security automation, tooling, and processes leveraging generative AI and machine learning

Domain

Cloud security, application security, distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

threat modeling, secure system design, penetration testing, manual code review, security automation, mentoring, metrics definition, risk identification, mitigation planning

Preferred skills

service-oriented architectures, microservices, web services security

Technologies

Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, Go, command line tools, generative AI, machine learning

Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end security reviews including design reviews and threat modeling; perform manual code reviews of security-critical components; scope and oversee penetration testing engagements; design and build security automation and tooling; mentor junior engineers and contribute to team processes; define and track security metrics for risk reduction and efficiency

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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