Staff+ Software Engineer, Agentic Software Security

Talanto; San Mateo, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Vision and dental coverage

HSA/FSA options

Mental health support

Parental leave

Flexible PTO

Fertility stipend

Wellness benefits

Free lunches

Job summary

••••••• is seeking a Staff+ Software Engineer for its Agentic Software Security team in San Mateo, CA. You will scale security across the SDLC, build automation and libraries, and collaborate with platform teams to secure our products.

The role requires writing code daily, 7+ years in software engineering focused on security, and onsite work five days a week. A Masters/PhD in security is a bonus, with opportunities to influence security strategy and AI-enabled defenses.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Masters or PhD in security is a bonus.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience focusing on security.
• Willingness to work onsite five days per week.
• Interest in security weaknesses, attacks, and mitigations.
• Experience leveraging AI as you build.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives to eliminate classes of vulnerabilities from the product.
• Build tools to help engineers do the right thing for security.
• Collaborate with engineering leaders to define security goals and processes.
• Collaborate with the CISO and security team to grow security programs.
• Share security experience via conferences, blogs and open source.

Skills

Write code daily

Security software

AI in security

Threat modeling

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent

Masters or PhD in security

Job description

Staff+ Software Engineer, Agentic Software Security

Full time · San Mateo, CA United States

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Who We Are

••••••• is transforming how organizations protect their people and places with an integrated, privacy-sensitive AI-powered platform that includes solutions for video security, access control, air quality sensors, alarms, intercoms, and visitor management.

We’ve got serious momentum in the market: more than 30,000 customers (including 100+ of the Fortune 500), a $5.8B valuation - more than $1 billion in annualized bookings, and backing from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, General Catalyst, Felicis Ventures, Next47 and more. Physical AI is one of the most consequential technology shifts of our time, and ••••••• is at the center of it.

You can look at all kinds of communities to see our platform’s impact in the world. It's the retailer that uses our agentic AI to deter theft before it happens. The warehouse that uses AI-powered alerts to make sure its team is protected on the floor with proper PPE. The school that’s alerted to a threat in real-time and triggers a lockdown in seconds, not minutes. We’re rapidly scaling this impact: today, more than 2 million ••••••• devices are deployed across 170+ countries.

About the Role

The ••••••• Security Team is a software engineering team at its core- we build the right way to do software security. In this role, you will scale ••••••• ’s security in the SDLC through automation, libraries, tools and frameworks. The role’s broad scope means you will be writing code in a variety of technology stacks and collaborating with engineering teams across ••••••• ’s Command platform.

What You'll Do

• As a ••••••• Builder, you will have a broad scope of ownership and will lead initiatives to eliminate classes of vulnerabilities from ••••••• . This includes wearing a PM hat when needed, building experiments and prototypes, driving adoption of your tools, and demonstrating your impact on the organization
• Build tools to make it easy for ••••••• ’s software engineers to do the right thing for security as they build products and infrastructure
• Collaborate with other engineering leaders to define, communicate, and execute on security goals, priorities and process
• Collaborate with the CISO and security team to grow the broader ••••••• security and privacy programs
• Share your security experience with other teams internally and externally via security conferences, presentations, blogs and open source

What You Bring

• You will write code every day
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree or equivalent
• Masters or PhD in security is a bonus
• 7+ years of experience as a software engineer that has worked on security problems
• You can just break things - interest in security weaknesses, attacks, and mitigations
• Experience leveraging AI as you build
• Must be willing and able to work onsite five days per week

US Employee Benefits

••••••• is committed to fostering a workplace environment that prioritizes the holistic health and wellbeing of our employees and their families by offering comprehensive wellness perks, benefits, and resources. Our benefits and perks programs include, but are not limited to:

• Healthcare programs that can be tailored to meet the personal health and financial well-being needs - Premiums are 100% covered for the employee under at least one plan and 80% for family premiums under all plans
• Nationwide medical, vision and dental coverage
• Health Saving Account (HSA) with annual employer contributions and Flexible Spending Account (FSA) with tax saving options
• Expanded mental health support
• Paid parental leave policy & fertility benefits
• Time off to relax and recharge through our paid holidays, firmwide extended holidays, flexible PTO and personal sick time
• Fertility Stipend
• Wellness/fitness benefits
• Healthy lunches provided daily

Additional Information

• We do sponsor and take over sponsorship of employment visas for this role. If we make you an offer, we will make every reasonable effort to get you a visa.

Annual Pay Range

At ••••••• , we want to attract and retain the best employees, and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contribution to the company. With that in mind, we carefully consider a number of factors to determine the appropriate starting pay for an employee, including their primary work location and an assessment of a candidate's skills and experience, as well as market demands and internal parity. A ••••••• employee may be eligible for additional forms of compensation, depending on their role, including sales incentives, discretionary bonuses, and/or equity in the company in the form of restricted stock units (RSUs)

Below is the annual on-target earnings (OTE) range for full-time employees for this position, comprised of base compensation and commissions (if applicable).

Estimated Annual Pay Range$200,000-$300,000 USD

As an equal opportunity employer, ••••••• is committed to providing employment opportunities to all individuals. All applicants for positions at ••••••• will be treated without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.