13 hours ago
Seattle, WA, USA +2 moreMid Level / Senior / Staff+
Base Salary
$132k - $258k/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 security features and products that protect customer environments.
- Integrate AI agents to increase security-team and engineering-organization velocity and proactively minimize risk.
- Lead security assessments and penetration testing of applications, AI services, and APIs, and collaborate on remediation.
- Design and implement controls for data pipelines, model-training environments, and customer-facing AI agents.
- Research emerging AI/ML and LLM security threats and build defenses against novel risks.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of hands-on application security engineering experience securing large-scale production systems.
- Understanding of developer experience and workflows for shipping products while reducing security risk.
- Technical 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 business-aligned security.
- 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 and dependent-care FSA options.
- Health savings account with company contribution for eligible plans.
- Annual wellness and learning-and-development stipends.
- Company-wide and team off-sites.
- Company stock options and 401(k).
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