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Security Engineer, Security for Employee and Legal Systems (SEALS)

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2 days ago
Seattle, WA, USAMid Level
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$159k - $202k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own security outcomes for assigned builder teams and the HR and Legal applications they operate.
  • Threat model GenAI and LLM-backed applications, including prompt injection, insecure output handling, data leakage through model context, and excessive agent authority.
  • Secure agentic workflows through transitive authentication and scoped authorization.
  • Author and refine automated detection rules that identify risks at code commit and provide actionable fixes.
  • Use GenAI for AI-assisted code review, detection authoring, and triage.
  • Drive adoption of Secure CDK Blueprints, automated patching, standardized authorization, and transitive authentication for agentic workflows.
  • Perform adversarial analysis and manual secure code review in Java, Python, and JavaScript, then turn identified gaps into new detections.
  • Provide security architecture guidance and lead security outcomes for design reviews.
  • Prioritize remediation by business impact and escalate launch-blocking risk decisions when needed.
  • Communicate security outcomes to security and service team leadership and mentor other engineers.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of programming experience in Python, Ruby, Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++, or a similar object-oriented language.
  • 2+ years of non-internship scripting, programming, and security code review experience in a common programming language.
  • 2+ years of non-internship experience troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks with command-line tools.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent, or qualifying IT Security experience as specified in the posting.
  • Knowledge of networking protocols including HTTP, DNS, and TCP/IP.
  • Knowledge of industry security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques.
  • Preferred: 2+ years in combinations of threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration, or network security.
  • Preferred: experience with AWS products and services.
  • Preferred: experience performing security activities across software development lifecycle phases such as security design review, threat modeling, secure code review, and security testing.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance, including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
  • Employee Assistance Program, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
  • Additional package components include sign-on payments and restricted stock units; the position is based in Seattle, Washington.

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