Staff Software Engineer, Product Security

The role

The Staff Product Security Engineer will define the product-security roadmap and architecture. This role involves writing security-critical code and building secure-by-default tools for the engineering organization.

What you will do

• Define and own the product-security roadmap.
• Define security architecture across the platform.
• Partner with Product Engineering, Infrastructure, and Platform teams.
• Write and review security-critical production code.
• Build secure-by-default libraries, frameworks, and tools.
• Identify emerging vulnerabilities and security risks.
• Develop pragmatic mitigation strategies.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in product security, application security, platform security, security-focused software engineering, or related work.
• Experience designing secure architectures and establishing security standards across an engineering organization.
• Strong software-development background with experience writing high-quality production Python code.
• Track record of identifying and remediating software vulnerabilities through professional work, security research, penetration testing, bug bounties, or CVEs.
• Excellent communication skills to translate technical security risks into product and business tradeoffs.
• Ability to work on-site at our San Francisco or New York office.

Nice to have

• Experience building or scaling product-security programs at a rapidly growing company.
• Experience with AWS and cloud-native security patterns.
• Experience with AI/ML systems and emerging security considerations for LLM-based applications.

About the company

Peregrine helps public safety organizations, governments, and private-sector institutions address challenges with an AI-enabled platform. The company serves more than 125 million people across 30+ states and two countries.