Staff Security Engineer - AI-Driven App Vetting

Wakefield; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Meaningful equity

Visa sponsorship

Job summary

Wakefield is seeking a software engineer to own the console end-to-end—from schema to UI—capturing findings, proofs, fixes, scans, chat, and MCP server integrations that bring Wakefield into the tools teams already use.

You’ll build with Python, TypeScript, React, GraphQL, and work across backend and frontend to ship polished features end to end, collaborating with security engineers and product design.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of engineering experience or equivalent depth from open source or personal projects.
• Experience at a fast-growing startup.
• You've built products from scratch and shipped real users.
• You've owned polished features end to end, from backend to UI.
• Strong product and design judgment: what to cut, what to polish, when to ship.
• Strong full-stack fundamentals: Python, TypeScript, React, GraphQL, debugging unfamiliar code.
• You use coding agents every day and still understand every line you ship.
• You build and tinker for fun because you genuinely care about how products are made and used.

Responsibilities

• The finding page: the recording, the requests, the steps to reproduce and the fix, clear enough for someone who isn't a security expert.
• Adding an application and a test login for each role, and following the agents while they work.
• Fixes: patches with a confidence level, pull requests a person opens, and retests that confirm the fix.
• Chat and the MCP server, so people can ask Wakefield what to fix first from wherever they work.
• Integrations with GitHub, Jira, Linear, Slack and the rest.
• Reports a CISO can hand to a board or an auditor.

Skills

Full-stack development

Python

TypeScript

React

GraphQL

Debugging unfamiliar code

Security tooling

Shipping features

Job description

Wakefield is seeking a software engineer to own the console end-to-end—from schema to UI—capturing findings, proofs, fixes, scans, chat, and MCP server integrations that bring Wakefield into the tools teams already use.

You’ll build with Python, TypeScript, React, GraphQL, and work across backend and frontend to ship polished features end to end, collaborating with security engineers and product design.