Senior / Staff Security Engineer

The role

You will perform hands-on security work across product and infrastructure. This includes vulnerability management, incident response, product security testing, and hardening cloud/infra posture.

What you will do

• Operate, automate, and extend vulnerability management end-to-end
• Run the bug bounty program
• Lead product security testing including threat modeling and code review
• Be a primary responder for security incidents
• Own cloud and infrastructure security posture on GCP, k8s, and Postgres
• Build and maintain security tooling and automation
• Partner with the GRC/Trust function

Required qualifications

• 5+ years across security engineering
• Real depth in at least two of: vulnerability management, product/appsec testing, incident response, and cloud security
• Can read and reason about code (TypeScript)
• Comfortable in cloud environments
• Comfortable using AI coding/security tools
• Can lead an incident from first alert through postmortem
• Can write scripts or ship tools
• Can explain technical findings to non-technical stakeholders

Nice to have

• GCP

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity
• Employee-friendly equity terms including early exercise in the US and extended exercise windows
• Daily meal and coffee stipend on every workday
• Paid co-working space or desk
• Health coverage
• 5 weeks paid vacation, plus local statutory holidays
• 4 months paid parental leave
• Paid month off after 4 years & every 2 years thereafter
• Regular team events and off-sites

About the company

Linear is a product development system for teams and agents. Founded in 2019, it is used by more than 50,000 companies to plan, build, and ship products.