Member of Technical Staff, Product Security

The role

You will build and operate security systems to allow fast shipping without avoidable risk. You will work across application security, secure defaults, AI-assisted security tooling, and agentic systems. You will also define how security fits into the development process through reusable patterns and controls.

What you will do

• Build and operate security systems
• Work across application security, secure defaults, and AI-assisted security tooling
• Address the attack surface of agentic systems that consume untrusted web content
• Fix real vulnerabilities and change underlying systems to prevent recurrence
• Define how security fits into the development process
• Build reusable patterns for authentication, authorization, data handling, and outbound access
• Design controls for enterprise customers
• Ensure security review happens as part of how software gets built

Required qualifications

• Deep intuition on application security, software architecture, and how vulnerabilities emerge in real systems
• Comfortable finding issues and eliminating vulnerability classes through libraries, frameworks, and defaults
• Ability to write production code
• Strong opinions on where AI models are useful for security work
• Comfortable operating independently
• Ability to prioritize highest-leverage problems
• Ability to work directly with engineers and customers
• Significant software engineering experience, including several years focused on product or application security
• Strong experience with web and API security, including authentication, authorization, SSRF, IDOR, injection, and multi-tenant isolation
• Built frameworks, libraries, or secure defaults that reduced entire classes of vulnerabilities
• Experience building security tooling using current AI models
• Experience securing systems that process untrusted inputs, especially LLM or agentic systems

Nice to have

• Experience with GCP, Kubernetes, security research, open source security tooling, or conference talks

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Generous equity
• Visa sponsorships
• 401K plans
• Daily lunch & office snacks
• Dinner at the office
• Unlimited vacation
• Caltrain pass reimbursement

About the company

Parallel is a web infrastructure company. Their products are used by leading businesses in sales, marketing, insurance, and coding to build AI agents with programmatic access to the web.