Senior Staff Software Engineer, Reliability and Application Security, Cloud Security

Apigee; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Vacation time

Sick time

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

13 paid holidays

Job summary

Apigee in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking a security engineering leader to design and scale secure software and cloud infrastructure. This role emphasizes risk management, secure coding practices, and driving cross‑team security initiatives across large‑scale systems, with strong data structures and algorithms foundation.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package for US-based employees: health/dental/vision, 401(k) with company match, vacation and sick time, maternity leave, baby bonding, holidays, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, EE, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years in security engineering or architecture roles for large-scale distributed systems.
• 8 years in data structures and algorithms.
• 3 years in a technical leadership role setting strategy for security programs.
• Experience with application security vulnerabilities and mitigations.

Skills

Security engineering

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Algorithms

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Master's degree or PhD (preferred)

Tools

Security tooling

Automation

Job description

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in security engineering with a focus on application security, or software development architecting, operating, or scaling large-scale distributed systems, enterprise platforms, or cloud infrastructure.
• 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership or tech lead role setting strategy for security programs, reliability initiatives, or large-scale systems, and driving cross-team execution.
• Experience with application security vulnerabilities, secure coding practices, and mitigation techniques.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Experience with vulnerability management programs, security tooling, and automation.
• Experience leading security or reliability efforts for a portfolio of SaaS or enterprise security products.
• Deep domain expertise in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, production systems governance, multi-region disaster recovery, and incident response frameworks.
• Strong expertise in defining SLOs/SLIs, building observability frameworks, and scaling operations in fast-growing, mission-critical cloud environments.