Security Engineer Level 4 — Scale Secure Systems with AI

Snap Inc.; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 157,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

Snap Inc is seeking a Security Engineer to design, implement, and scale security controls across infrastructure, applications, identity, and cloud environments. The role involves security assessments, threat modeling, and building automation to improve compliance, observability, and governance.

You will partner with product, engineering, and operations teams to harden systems, investigate incidents, and define security standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical work experience.
• 2+ years of post-Bachelor’s security experience; or Master’s with 1+ year; or PhD in a relevant field.
• Expertise in infrastructure security, enterprise security, access management, app security, detection/response, or abuse

Responsibilities

• Design and scale security controls across infrastructure, apps, identity, and cloud environments.
• Conduct security assessments, threat modeling, and code reviews to mitigate vulnerabilities.
• Build automation and tooling to improve security compliance, observability, and governance.
• Leverage AI tools with rigorous standards for code correctness and security.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to harden systems and reduce risk.
• Investigate incidents, perform root cause analysis, and propose remediations.
• Help define security standards and documentation to raise security maturity

Skills

Security engineering

Threat modeling

AI tooling

Cloud security

Programming

Communication

Security advocacy

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Vulnerability scanners

SIEM

EDR

Cloud security frameworks

Automation platforms

Job description

Snap Inc is seeking a Security Engineer to design, implement, and scale security controls across infrastructure, applications, identity, and cloud environments. The role involves security assessments, threat modeling, and building automation to improve compliance, observability, and governance.

You will partner with product, engineering, and operations teams to harden systems, investigate incidents, and define security standards.