Ashby

Senior Security Platform Engineer - Secure Delivery

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2 days ago
Remote, United States or Remote, CanadaSenior

Base Salary

$178k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Deploy, configure, integrate, tune, and operate security scanning and delivery-security controls across production repositories and CI/CD workflows.
  • Implement secure-by-default report-only, warning, blocking, and self-service exception policies with appropriate ownership, justification, expiry, and audit trails.
  • Build automation and AI-assisted workflows that enrich findings, propose fixes, and support engineering triage while preserving review, required checks, and rollback.
  • Measure delivery-security coverage, integration failures, finding age, remediation times, false blocks, build delay, bypasses, and GRC evidence.
  • Partner with Infrastructure on cloud-posture monitoring, critical-misconfiguration alerts, bounded remediation automation, shared-image hardening, and artifact provenance.

Requirements

  • Experience building and operating CI/CD, developer tooling, or infrastructure automation used by other engineers.
  • Ability to write maintainable production automation in TypeScript, Python, Go, or a comparable language.
  • Experience with GitHub Actions or comparable CI/CD systems, Terraform, containers, and cloud controls.
  • Ability to explain system failure modes, use security evidence for rollout decisions, and own the reliability and tuning of shipped capabilities.
  • Experience applying AI in engineering, including checking outputs and permissions, is expected.
  • Supply-chain security and scanner experience is useful, but familiarity with a particular scanner is not required.
  • Comfort investigating ambiguous problems, writing proposals, making build-versus-buy decisions, and improving adoption after launch.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity.
  • 10-year exercise window for stock options.
  • Unlimited paid time off with encouragement to take it.
  • At least 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, subject to possible increases for local requirements.
  • Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
  • $100 per month education budget, with more expensive items such as conferences covered with manager approval.
  • For US employees, health insurance premiums for employees and dependents are fully covered; employees in other countries receive fully covered supplemental health insurance.
  • The role includes a take-home assignment and practical assessment during the interview process, with an estimated 2–3 hours for the take-home assignment.

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About Ashby

501-1,000 employees

Ashby builds an all-in-one recruiting platform—applicant tracking, scheduling, sourcing, and analytics—for talent acquisition teams at scaling companies. It sells the software as a SaaS subscription with integrations across common HR systems. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company lists customers such as Snowflake, Reddit, Notion, and Deel.

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