YipitData

Product Security Engineer

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2 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior

Base Salary

$180k - $180k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Perform threat modeling and security design reviews for new products and features.
  • Assess application architecture, APIs, authentication, authorization, data flows, cloud services, containers, serverless technologies, and third-party integrations.
  • Identify, validate, prioritize, and help remediate vulnerabilities in partnership with engineers.
  • Own and improve SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, secret scanning, and infrastructure-as-code scanning tools and workflows.
  • Build automation for repetitive product security work using Python, JavaScript, or a similar language.
  • Create secure design patterns, coding guidance, standards, and documentation.
  • Support product security incident response from investigation and containment through root cause analysis and long-term remediation.
  • Evaluate emerging risks in cloud and AI-enabled products, including agents, large language model applications, and MCP integrations.

Requirements

  • Experience in product security, application security, software engineering, penetration testing, or a comparable role involving how applications are built and broken.
  • Ability to analyze complex systems, trace data flows, identify trust boundaries, and assess practical security risks.
  • Experience with threat modeling, architecture reviews, vulnerability validation, and application security assessments.
  • Comfort working with APIs, cloud services, containers, serverless technologies, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience with SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, secret scanning, or infrastructure-as-code scanning and tuning their results.
  • Ability to read and write code and automate security work using Python, JavaScript, or a similar language.
  • Experience securing AI-enabled products, agents, large language model applications, or MCP integrations.
  • Deep experience with identity, authentication, authorization, or multi-tenant application security.
  • Real-world experience applying OWASP Top 10, OWASP MCP Top 10, OWASP ASVS, or NIST frameworks.
  • Strong judgment and communication skills for working with technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple products and engineering teams.

Benefits

  • Flexible work hours and flexible vacation.
  • 401(k) match, parental leave, team events, wellness budget, and learning reimbursement.
  • Fully remote work is available within the United States, or the role may be based in NYC or another office hub.
  • Most employees on the team work East Coast hours.
  • Remote work outside company offices may be subject to New York State tax withholding.

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About YipitData

501-1,000 employees

YipitData provides alternative data, analytics, and sector research to institutional investors and enterprises, delivered via subscription data products and reports. Its proprietary technology aggregates and analyzes consumer and transactional signals across sectors such as e-commerce, payments, and software to produce timely insights. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, it is privately held and backed by The Carlyle Group, with global offices in the US, APAC, and India.

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