Role overview
A consumer membership platform serving 100M+ users across iOS, Android, and web is hiring its foundational mobile and product security engineer. This is a hands‑on, build-with-the-team role embedded directly with product and mobile squads, with ownership of mobile security, application security, offensive testing, and the partner‑facing security architecture for a zero‑to‑one stack that includes AI‑native features.
Responsibilities
- Embed with mobile and product squads (membership app for iOS and Android, marketplace, data and identity) to threat‑model features, review designs, and harden code before it ships.
- Own the mobile application security program end‑to‑end, including secure mobile SDLC, code review across Swift, Kotlin, and React Native, supply‑chain and dependency controls, and developer‑facing security tooling.
- Run the broader product application security program, covering secure‑by‑default patterns, API and backend security review, and paved‑road tooling for the engineering organization.
- Run the pen testing program, performing hands‑on mobile and web offensive work (static and dynamic analysis, reverse engineering, on‑device attack surface) and coordinating external engagements; turn findings into shipped fixes.
- Architect the controls and documentation needed to satisfy partner security requirements so partnership deals can close on schedule.
- Set the security baseline for an AI‑native product stack, including coding agents, model and prompt security, mobile AI features, and related attack surfaces.
- Author mobile and product security standards, guardrails, and the paved‑road playbook so that security scales with the organization.
Requirements
- Background as the security engineer embedded inside a product or mobile team, with a track record of shipping code and fixes directly rather than only reviewing at the gate.
- Deep experience securing native iOS and/or Android apps at consumer scale, including secure storage, certificate and key pinning, jailbreak/root and tamper detection, secure IPC, and mobile authentication flows.
- Experience running or significantly contributing to an application security program inside a consumer product used by millions, with pragmatic judgment about coverage, velocity, and risk tradeoffs.
- Hands‑on offensive skills against mobile and web targets, including discovery and remediation of real‑world on‑device and API‑level mobile vulnerabilities.
- Familiarity with partner security frameworks and equivalents such as SOC 2, PCI, vendor security reviews, and mobile app store security requirements, with the ability to translate requirements into substantive controls.
- Comfort working in ambiguity on a fast‑moving, scaling product, with a bias toward shipping controls over writing policy.
Nice to have
- Daily use of AI coding agents and applied thinking about how AI changes both product development and the defensive surface area, including on‑device and mobile AI features.
- A blend of scrappy early‑stage startup experience and exposure to large‑scale consumer platforms.
Benefits and work setup
- Base salary range of $178,000 to $268,000, plus bonus and equity.
- Medical, dental and vision coverage through Blue Cross Blue Shield, plus company‑paid life insurance.
- Health Savings Account contributions, 401(k) plan with safe‑harbor company matching, and a flexible vacation policy with paid company holidays.
- Company‑provided technology package.
- Relocation assistance where applicable, including travel and company‑provided housing for the first 90 days.
- On‑site, embedded collaboration with mobile and product engineering teams.