20 hours ago
Base Salary
$240k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and ship secure libraries, defaults, workflows, and developer paved paths.
- Define and implement security invariants and guardrails that continuously verify security properties across products and cloud infrastructure.
- Build security capabilities directly into Traversal’s products for enterprise security teams.
- Discover, verify, assess, and remediate security findings while adding tests or controls to prevent recurrence.
- Architect security systems and major components that scale across SaaS and BYOC deployments.
- Lead multi-phase rollouts, migrations, deprecations, enablement, and adoption across teams.
- Own the operational completeness of security systems, including monitoring, alert quality, runbooks, rollout paths, and issue resolution.
- Set technical direction for scoped security domains and connect technical work to customer and business outcomes.
- Mentor engineers and emerging technical leaders and create reusable security patterns, libraries, and reference implementations.
Requirements
- Require 4–6+ years building or securing production software or infrastructure, including sensitive, mission-critical systems.
- Independently lead ambiguous, cross-team security projects from design through implementation, migration, and adoption.
- Strong programming skills in Python, Rust, or Go and ability to work effectively in an existing codebase.
- Hands-on depth in application security or cloud security, with working knowledge of the other.
- Technical depth in risk assessment and ability to evaluate standards such as NIST and SOC2 critically.
- Practical understanding of authentication, authorization, trust boundaries, secrets, and common distributed-system failure modes.
- Clear written communication and a collaborative approach to technical disagreements.
- Preferred experience includes enterprise customer security requirements, securing infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform, Kubernetes, detection engineering, security telemetry, automated control validation, offensive testing with shipped remediations, and formal methods for security.
Benefits
- U.S. base salary range of $240,000–$300,000, plus startup equity and benefits.
- Health insurance, fertility benefits, a technology setup stipend, and flexible time off.
- In-office snacks, team happy hours and outings, and an annual company offsite.
- Full-time, fully in-office role, five days per week, based in New York near Madison Square Park.
