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Junior Security Engineer
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About this role
Role overview
Help strengthen product security by building and maintaining tools that support secure software development. Working with an application security team, you’ll contribute to automated analysis, code scanning, and emerging AI-enabled security workflows, while partnering with teams across the organization to address security needs in new and existing features.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain internal security tools, including static and dynamic analysis and code-scanning capabilities. - Explore and develop agentic AI approaches that improve security workflows and support detection or remediation. - Work with application security colleagues to reduce risk across the software development lifecycle. - Collaborate with engineering, product, and other partners on security requirements for product features. - Contribute to security reviews, threat modeling, and vulnerability analysis as your experience allows.
Requirements
- 0–2+ years of software development experience. - A solid foundation in software development and confidence reading and writing code. - Experience building internal tools or supporting engineering enablement. - Demonstrated project or professional experience using agentic AI to speed up security work, automate repetitive tasks, or improve detection and remediation. - Curiosity about security engineering topics such as secure coding, penetration testing, vulnerability analysis, and security architecture. - Clear communication and collaboration skills, with flexibility when priorities change.
Nice to have
- Rust or Go experience, or the ability to learn new languages quickly. - Experience with security code reviews, architecture guidance, or threat modeling. - Hands-on familiarity with web application security, including OWASP Top 10 topics.
Benefits and work setup
- Remote role based in the United States or Canada, with some travel for in-person team or industry events. - Health benefits, generous paid time off, parental leave top-ups, and retirement matching. - Equity awards may be available to most employees; also includes paid volunteer days and peer recognition.