First Product Security Engineer - Secure AI Dev Tools

Warp; New York (NY); On-site; USD 230,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Warp is building a pioneering agentic development platform, with a focus on secure-by-default architecture and scalable security practices. You will lead product security, shaping strategy and collaborating with engineering to embed secure features while guiding enterprise-related security decisions.

As the first Product Security Engineer, you will split time between hands-on software security work and defining security direction for Warp's growth, reporting to the Product Security function.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful experience in product security, application security, or software security - ideally in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to design, build, and ship production systems.
• This is not primarily a security-review or advisory role.
• Deep knowledge of application-security fundamentals including authentication and authorization, data protection, vulnerability classes, threat modeling, secure architecture, and incident response.
• Strong product judgment: translate security risks and customer requirements into pragmatic product decisions.
• Strong organizational skills and an exceptional eye for detail.
• Clear, thoughtful communicator who can adjust tone for candidates, interviewers, and leadership alike.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and change - you default to figuring it out, not waiting to be told.

Responsibilities

• Shape Warp's product security strategy, identifying the highest-leverage security risks and opportunities as our product and enterprise business grow.
• Design and build security-critical product capabilities, working directly in the codebase alongside product engineers.
• Make security scalable across engineering through secure-by-default architecture, reusable systems and tooling, threat modeling, and pragmatic guidance—not by becoming a gatekeeper for every change.
• Serve as Warp's product-security expert with customers, partnering with Product, Sales, and engineering leadership to understand enterprise requirements and communicate our security posture credibly.
• Lead application-security incident response, from assessing vulnerabilities and coordinating mitigations through customer communication and systemic follow-up.
• Develop Warp's approach to emerging AI and agent security risks, including areas like permissions, credentials, untrusted code execution, data boundaries, and isolation.

Skills

Software engineering

5+ years experience

Application security

Security architecture

Threat modeling

Incident response

Product judgment

Clear communication

Ambiguity tolerance

Job description

Warp is building a pioneering agentic development platform, with a focus on secure-by-default architecture and scalable security practices. You will lead product security, shaping strategy and collaborating with engineering to embed secure features while guiding enterprise-related security decisions.

As the first Product Security Engineer, you will split time between hands-on software security work and defining security direction for Warp's growth, reporting to the Product Security function.