Product Security Engineer

4 days ago

London, United Kingdom or San Francisco, CA, USASenior

Base Salary

$227k - $296k/yr

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate Watcher’s identity and access management, infrastructure and cloud security, endpoint management, and incident-response controls.
Establish secure engineering practices and paved roads, including code-review security checklists, dependency scanning, secrets management, and container hardening.
Lead security projects from ideation through implementation and rollout, and make security infrastructure build-versus-buy decisions.
Evaluate vendors and their security posture before adoption.
Own security questionnaires, product security whitepapers, customer penetration-test support, and technical customer communications during incidents.
Collaborate with the Infrastructure & Security team to define Watcher’s security roadmap and priorities.
Join customer and prospect calls, understand enterprise security needs, and feed buyer signals into product and threat-model prioritization.

5+ years of hands-on technical experience in security roles, rather than purely GRC or compliance work.
Ability to read code, understand infrastructure, and evaluate technical controls.
Direct experience with application security, cloud security, or product security, ideally owning or significantly contributing to the security posture of a product handling sensitive customer data.
Experience working at a security vendor or security product company.
An engineering mindset with the ability to build custom solutions, automate security work, and apply systems-level thinking.
Comfort working in a small, fast-moving team across hands-on security work and strategic product thinking.
Strong written communication skills for security questionnaires, whitepapers, and incident communications.
Preferred: strong understanding of enterprise security buyer concerns, experience leading a security incident through resolution and customer communication, and experience with AI/ML or LLM security.

Market-competitive salary, equity, and competitive benefits.
Flexible work hours and schedule, unlimited vacation, and unlimited sick leave.
Up to 6 months of paid parental leave.
Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
Retirement savings with competitive employer matching, including a 401(k) for US employees.
Lunch, dinner, and snacks provided on workdays.
Paid staff retreats, business trips, and relevant conferences.
$1,000 USD annual professional development budget.
Relocation support and visa fees if applicable.
Full-time, in-person work from the London or San Francisco office, with flexible hours and some work-from-home arrangements.
Engineers have an effectively unlimited token budget for compute-intensive work.

1-10 employees