5 days ago
Base Salary
$183k - $240k/yr
Responsibilities
- Conduct threat modeling with product teams and design secure architectures for new features.
- Own and evolve the application security program, including SAST/DAST scanning in CI/CD pipelines, security code reviews, and vulnerability-catching automation.
- Establish secure coding standards and create reusable security patterns and libraries for engineering teams.
- Design and recommend security features and products for protecting customer environments.
- Integrate AI agents to improve security-team and engineering-team velocity while reducing risk.
- Lead security assessments and penetration testing of applications, AI services, and APIs, and collaborate on remediation.
- Design and implement security controls for data pipelines, model training environments, and customer-facing AI agents.
- Research emerging AI/ML, LLM, and generative AI attack vectors and build proactive defenses.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of hands-on application security engineering experience securing large-scale production systems.
- Understanding of developer experience and workflows for shipping features and products.
- Expertise in at least two of Python, Java, Go, JavaScript, and TypeScript, with the ability to review code across multiple languages.
- Knowledge of SAST/DAST solutions, vulnerability management platforms, security testing frameworks, and DevSecOps practices.
- Strong communication skills for explaining security concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- A builder’s mindset focused on automation, scalability, enablement, and reducing security bottlenecks.
- Alignment with WRITER’s values of Connect, Challenge, and Own.
Benefits
- Hybrid work from WRITER’s New York City, San Francisco, or Seattle offices.
- US full-time employee benefits include generous PTO, company holidays, medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Paid parental leave for all parents for 16 weeks, plus fertility and family planning support.
- Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri.
- Flexible spending and dependent FSA options, plus an HSA with company contribution for eligible plans.
- Annual wellness and learning and development stipends.
- Company-wide and team off-sites.
- Company stock options and 401k.
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About WRITER
WRITER builds an enterprise generative AI platform for creating, deploying, and supervising AI agents grounded in company data and powered by proprietary LLMs. It sells subscriptions and services to large organizations, with customers such as Accenture, Marriott, Uber, Mars, and Vanguard. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company raised a Series C in 2024.