Staff Software Engineer - Security
Flow Engineering11 hours ago
Base Salary
$240k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own security architecture across the platform, including threat modeling, secure design reviews, and security standards.
- Harden application security, cloud infrastructure, identity, networks, secrets, tenant isolation, and data protection.
- Drive SOC 2 readiness and prepare for defense and aerospace certifications and controls, including export control and ITAR.
- Secure AI and agentic systems against prompt injection, model-based data leakage, unauthorized agent actions, and related risks.
- Build tooling for detection, monitoring, vulnerability management, and CI/CD security.
- Establish and run incident response from detection through postmortems.
- Partner with sales and product on security reviews and customer confidence.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience building production software, including operating secure cloud services at scale.
- Deep application and cloud security experience with identity and access, secrets, network security, and data protection.
- Experience owning security in a regulated or high-trust environment and implementing SOC 2.
- Experience with threat modeling, secure architecture, and incident response.
- Experience securing AI or LLM systems.
- Ability to serve as the security lead at a startup and independently set the security agenda.
- Experience with export control, ITAR, or FedRAMP is preferred.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
- Health, dental, and vision coverage.
- Flexible time off.
- Support for experimentation, learning, and staying current with the AI ecosystem.
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About Flow Engineering
Flow Engineering builds a SaaS platform for hardware and systems engineering teams to manage requirements, verification/validation, and collaboration across the V‑Model. It serves aerospace, automotive, defense, and robotics companies, with reported users including Rivian, Joby, Astranis, and Radiant. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company is backed by Sequoia Capital and other notable investors.