Senior Product Security Engineer

United Talent Agency; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

United Talent Agency seeks a Senior Product Security Engineer to embed security into design, development, and operation of our products and platforms. You will work with engineering, product, and security teams to design and implement security controls across applications and services to safeguard our brand and digital assets.

The role focuses on security strategy, secure development lifecycle, and incident response, with hands-on work across AWS and other cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years in security engineering, application security, or product security roles with a track record of leading initiatives.
• Deep understanding of OWASP Top 10 and practical remediation at scale.
• Experience securing apps/services in AWS or other major cloud providers with cloud-native architectures.
• Hands-on with SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets scanning and integrating into CI/CD workflows.
• Familiarity with IaC review (Terraform), CI/CD security (GitHub Actions), and secrets management.
• Familiarity with container security (Kubernetes RBAC, network policies).
• Experience securing AI/ML platforms in cloud environments and governance across the dev lifecycle.
• Strong collaboration with agile engineering teams and design/code reviews.

Responsibilities

• Lead security design and architecture reviews for web, mobile, and cloud apps and provide actionable recommendations.
• Define product security requirements and roadmaps across multiple teams.
• Conduct threat modeling workshops to identify risks and drive mitigations.
• Review security for cloud deployments across AWS, Azure, and GCP with platform-specific controls.
• Own and mature the product security lifecycle, including secure design and testing in CI/CD.
• Drive automated security checks in CI/CD pipelines and balance risk with developer velocity.
• Coordinate security testing and remediation with development teams.
• Establish secure coding standards and reusable frameworks across engineering teams.
• Lead API security assessments for REST/GraphQL and API gateway reviews.

Skills

Product security

Threat modeling

Security architecture

Cloud security

Security tooling

DevSecOps

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience

Computer Science/Cybersecurity/Engineering background

Tools

SAST

DAST

SCA

Secrets scanning

WAF

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Kubernetes RBAC

Network policies

Container security

AI/ML security

Job description

UTA seeks a Senior Product Security Engineer to help embed security into the design, development, and operation of our products and platforms. In this role, you will work closely with engineering, product, and security teams to design and implement security controls across our applications and services, safeguarding our brand, our people, and our digital assets. If you are passionate about building secure products from the ground up and enjoy operating at the intersection of software development and cybersecurity, this role offers the opportunity to meaningfully shape UTA’s product security posture.

The salary range for this role is $160,000 to $200,000 commensurate with experience and skills.

What You Will Do

Product security strategy & architecture

• Lead security design and architecture reviews for new and existing products, including web, mobile, and cloud-based custom applications, and provide clear, actionable recommendations
• Partner with product and engineering leadership to define product security requirements, risk tolerances, and security roadmaps across multiple teams and initiatives
• Conduct and facilitate threat modeling workshops to proactively identify emerging risks and attack vectors and drive mitigations into product design
• Conduct security reviews for products and services deployed across AWS, Azure, and GCP including cloud-native architectures, and platform-specific security controls

Secure development lifecycle & testing

• Own and mature the application and product security lifecycle, including threat modeling, secure design, secure coding practices, testing, and release validation
• Assess and secure early-stage product design, architecture and workflows, associated with rapid prototyping and deployment
• Drive the adoption of automated security checks in CI/CD pipelines (SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets scanning, etc.) and ensure they are tuned to balance risk reduction with developer velocity
• Lead and coordinate application security testing efforts, including tool-based and manual reviews, and work closely with development teams to prioritize and remediate findings
• Establish and evangelize secure coding standards, patterns, and reusable frameworks that can be leveraged across engineering teams
• Lead API security assessments, including authentication/authorization validation for REST/GraphQL APIs and API gateway configuration reviews

Operations, monitoring & incident response

• Collaborate with security operations to ensure product-related logs, alerts, and events are captured, correlated, and integrated into monitoring and incident response workflows
• Own vulnerability triage and management for product and application findings, including those surfaced through penetration tests and attack surface monitoring, covering risk assessment, remediation planning, and validation of fixes
• Ensure products handle sensitive data appropriately, including data classification, storage, transit, and retention practices aligned with organizational security requirements

Tooling, enablement & leadership

• Evaluate, select, and help implement product security focused tools and services, influencing build vs buy decisions
• Develop documentation, playbooks, and training to raise the overall level of security awareness and capability across product and engineering teams
• Provide best practices on the secure use of AI-assisted development tools, including risks around dependency integrity, code suggestions, and agent-driven changes

What You Will Need

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of experience in security engineering, application security, or product aligned security roles, with a track record of owning and driving security initiatives
• Deep understanding of common web, mobile, and API vulnerabilities (e.g., OWASP Top 10) and practical experience preventing and remediating them at scale
• Strong experience securing applications and services in at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred), including cloud native architectures
• Hands on experience with application security tooling (SAST, DAST, SCA, secret scanning, WAF, or similar) and integrating these into CI/CD workflows
• Familiarity with secure deployment practices, including Infrastructure-as-Code review of Terraform, CI/CD pipeline security (GitHub Actions), and secrets management.
• Familiarity with container security, including image hardening, Kubernetes RBAC, network policies, and runtime protection.
• Familiarity with securing AI/ML platforms in cloud environments and agentic workflows, including access control, data protection, and governance across the application development and deployment lifecycle.
• Solid experience collaborating with software engineering teams in agile environments, including participating in design reviews, code reviews, and sprint planning
• Strong knowledge of identity, authentication, and authorization concepts and technologies (e.g., OAuth, OIDC, SSO, modern identity platforms)
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior technical and nontechnical partners and drive consensus

What You Will Get

• The unique and exciting opportunity to work at one of a leading global entertainment companies
• Access to the tools, leadership, and resources you will need to create and drive a center of excellence
• The opportunity to do the best work of your career
• Work in an inclusive and diverse company culture
• Competitive programs to support your well-being
• Experience working in a collaborative environment with room to grow

About UTA

UTA is a premier global talent agency built for the future of media and entertainment. The agency's diversified platform and best-in-class, client-first approach is innovative, collaborative, and positioned to lead in an evolving market. UTA represents the most celebrated artists, creatives, and brands, from icons and legends to next-generation talent. Its integrated capabilities span film and television, music, comedy, creators, sports, brands, news, publishing, speakers, theater, and more. It is based in Los Angeles with offices in the U.S., London, and Munich.

For more information: https://www.unitedtalent.com/about/

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