Senior Product Security Engineer – Secure DevOps & AI/LLM

BAM Ventures; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

PayPal in Austin, Texas is seeking a Senior Product Security Engineer to design, build, and operate automated security scanners and guardrails across the software development lifecycle. You will partner with engineering, platform, and security teams to identify and reduce risk across source code, open source dependencies, secrets, software supply chains, AI/LLM tools, and other developer workflows.

Our team’s mission is to make secure development the easiest path for engineers, building scanners

Qualifications

• 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Responsibilities

• Independently apply security best practices to enhance and optimize systems, ensuring robust protection and efficiency, while beginning to understand and align security solutions with business objectives.
• Partner with peers and internal teams to drive security initiatives, contribute to cross-functional projects, and at times co-lead efforts to strengthen security posture.
• Analyze and resolve security challenges by adapting standard processes and exploring alternative approaches to address complex threats.
• Influence the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of the team through informed decision-making, with a potential impact on other teams.
• Collaborate with other engineers to gather and incorporate feedback, driving continuous improvements in security processes.

Skills

Python

Go

Bash

SAST

SCA

SBOMs

AI/LLM tools

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Kubernetes

GCP

Terraform

Job description

PayPal in Austin, Texas is seeking a Senior Product Security Engineer to design, build, and operate automated security scanners and guardrails across the software development lifecycle. You will partner with engineering, platform, and security teams to identify and reduce risk across source code, open source dependencies, secrets, software supply chains, AI/LLM tools, and other developer workflows.

Our team’s mission is to make secure development the easiest path for engineers, building scanners