6 hours ago
Base Salary
$183k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Conduct threat modeling with product teams and design secure architectures for new features.
- Own and evolve the application security program, including SAST/DAST scanning in CI/CD pipelines, security code reviews, and vulnerability-detection automation.
- Establish secure coding standards and create reusable security patterns and libraries for engineering teams.
- Design and recommend security features and products that protect customer environments.
- Integrate AI agents to improve security-team and engineering-team velocity while proactively reducing risk.
- Lead security assessments and penetration testing of applications, AI services, and APIs, and coordinate remediation at scale.
- Design security controls for data pipelines, model training environments, and customer-facing AI agents.
- Research emerging AI/ML and generative-AI attack vectors and build proactive defenses.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of hands-on application security engineering experience securing large-scale production systems.
- Experience understanding developer experience and workflows while balancing security risk and engineering velocity.
- Expertise in at least two of Python, Java, Go, JavaScript, and TypeScript, with the ability to review code across multiple languages.
- Knowledge of SAST/DAST solutions, vulnerability management platforms, security testing frameworks, and DevSecOps practices.
- Strong communication skills for explaining security concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- A builder’s mindset focused on automation, scalability, developer enablement, and end-to-end ownership.
- Alignment with WRITER’s Connect, Challenge, and Own values.
- The role is open to mid, senior, and staff-level candidates.
Benefits
- Hybrid work from the New York City, San Francisco, or Seattle offices.
- Generous paid time off and company holidays.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
- Sixteen weeks of paid parental leave for all parents.
- Fertility and family planning support.
- Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri.
- Flexible spending accounts, dependent-care FSAs, and health savings accounts with company contributions for eligible plans.
- Annual wellness and learning-and-development stipends.
- Company-wide and team off-sites.
- Company stock options and a 401k.
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About WRITER
WRITER builds an enterprise generative AI platform for creating, deploying, and supervising AI agents grounded in company data and powered by proprietary LLMs. It sells subscriptions and services to large organizations, with customers such as Accenture, Marriott, Uber, Mars, and Vanguard. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company raised a Series C in 2024.