Senior Security Software Engineer - Hybrid/Remote

HOVER; United States; Hybrid; USD 139,000 - 239,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

Healthcare

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave

Self-Care Days

Remote wellbeing resources

Learning opportunities

Job summary

Hover is seeking a Security Software Engineer to build foundational security systems protecting users and infrastructure. You will design robust, scalable security services and partner with engineering teams to ship secure-by-design solutions.

You will own core functions such as authentication, identity management, secret management, and SOC 2 compliance, enabling secure development across our platform in a hybrid US-based role.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• 3+ years of hands-on security-focused engineering experience.
• Proficient in at least one programming language (Ruby, TypeScript, Python, C++, etc.) and willingness to ramp up in others.
• Experience building scalable security systems (e.g., secret management, service authorization, data encryption) in a production environment.
• Experience with threat modeling, security design reviews, or security incident response.
• Experience integrating security directly into the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Meticulous attention to detail; able to be the final checkpoint on security decisions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills for cross-team interactions.
• A proactive approach to continuous learning and staying current with emerging security trends.

Responsibilities

• Security Service Development: Design and build core security services (e.g., permissions management, secrets orchestration, secure MLOps).
• Security Infrastructure Automation: Enhance our CI/CD pipeline with automated self-serve security controls (e.g. SAST, supply chain security controls)
• Architecture & Code Review: Conduct secure code and architecture reviews, enforce secure-by-design principles, and lead threat modeling.
• System Hardening: Build and maintain resilient cloud infrastructure. Implement network isolation, automated vulnerability detection, and defense-in-depth strategies to harden our production environment.
• Compliance & Process: Run security incident response, document risks, and support audits.
• Collaboration & Education: Advise teams on security best practices, identify and solve for developer security friction points, and bring security awareness to engineering.

Skills

Security-focused engineering

SDLC integration

Threat modeling

Secure code reviews

Mentoring engineers

Tools

Ruby

TypeScript

Python

C++

Job description

Hover is seeking a Security Software Engineer to build foundational security systems protecting users and infrastructure. You will design robust, scalable security services and partner with engineering teams to ship secure-by-design solutions.

You will own core functions such as authentication, identity management, secret management, and SOC 2 compliance, enabling secure development across our platform in a hybrid US-based role.