5 months ago
Base Salary
$217k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve secure frameworks, guardrails, and library-level controls that make common vulnerability classes harder to introduce.
- Design security controls, reusable rule packs, and skills for AI-assisted development and coding agents.
- Embed security into existing engineering workflows.
- Lead product security reviews for new launches and major architectural changes.
- Identify and eliminate systemic security debt.
- Shape strategy, influence architecture, and drive execution across teams.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, product security, or application security, including at least 2 years operating at staff level scope and impact.
- Proficiency in one or more of Go, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Experience designing, building, and operating production-quality systems and developer-facing platforms.
- Experience building secure frameworks, libraries, or guardrails that improve security across multiple teams.
- Experience integrating security into CI/CD, code review, release processes, and internal platforms.
- Experience with vulnerability discovery and remediation pipelines, including bug bounty or researcher-reported findings.
- Track record of mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar across a security or platform engineering organization.
- Preferred: experience securing AI/LLM systems, agentic workflows, or AI-assisted development tooling.
- Preferred: familiarity with authentication and authorization systems and cloud-native platform security.
- Strong communication skills and ability to explain technical details and business impact to engineers and leadership.
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement is indicated by the #LI-Remote designation.
- U.S.-based employees may receive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k) program with employer match is offered.
- Benefits include generous vacation time and parental leave.
- The role may include equity in the form of restricted stock units and, depending on the position, commission.
- Candidates may opt out of AI recording, transcription, and summarization before interviews.
Tech Stack
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About Reddit
Reddit builds a social news and discussion platform organized into user-created forums (“subreddits”) for consumers, creators, and communities. It monetizes primarily through advertising tools for brands and self-serve advertisers, plus a Premium subscription; developers can access data via its API. Founded in 2005 and headquartered in San Francisco, Reddit became a public company on the NYSE in 2024 and hosts over 100,000 active communities.