
Staff Security Software Engineer
Role summary
We are seeking a Staff Security Software Engineer to join our Vulnerability Management team. This high-impact role involves shaping security practices at scale and driving technical strategy for systems that detect, track, and remediate security vulnerabilities. You will own the technical architecture and roadmap for vulnerability management tooling, lead the design and development of scalable solutions, and drive integration strategy across various security systems. The ideal candidate has 8+ years of experience, deep Python proficiency, and a strong understanding of vulnerability management concepts and security tooling. Experience with cloud environments, CI/CD, and compliance frameworks is essential. You will mentor engineers, contribute to architectural decisions, and partner with cross-functional teams to embed security automation.
### Who you are
- This is a high-impact, high-ownership role for someone who wants to do meaningful engineering work while shaping how security gets done at scale
- 8+ years of industry software engineering experience, with a meaningful portion of that spent in security engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure-adjacent domains
- Deep proficiency in Python, with a strong track record of writing production-grade, tested, maintainable code in complex systems
- Demonstrated experience owning and delivering end-to-end engineering projects, from early-stage design through production deployment and ongoing operation
- Solid understanding of vulnerability management concepts, including how vulnerabilities are discovered, classified, prioritized, and remediated in enterprise environments
- Experience building or maintaining integrations with security tooling such as vulnerability scanners, SIEM systems, or similar platforms
- Comfort working with CI/CD pipelines, version control workflows, and modern software delivery practices
- Experience working across teams and communicating technical concepts clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
- Strong judgment in the face of ambiguity, and a track record of asking the right questions before building rather than after
- Hands-on experience with vulnerability management tooling such as Wiz, Tenable/Nessus, Twistlock, or similar products, particularly in cloud or containerized environments
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks relevant to government or regulated environments, such as FedRAMP or DoD IL5/IL6
- Experience working with large-scale vulnerability aggregation systems or homegrown data pipelines that normalize findings across multiple scanners
- Background in building automated remediation workflows, such as automated PR generation for dependency vulnerabilities or patch orchestration across diverse package ecosystems
- Experience with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerized workloads at scale
- Contributions to the security or software community through open-source projects, published research, conference talks, or similar
### What the job involves
- As a Staff Software Engineer on the Vulnerability Management team, you will serve as a technical anchor for a team that builds and maintains the systems and tooling we rely on to detect, track, and remediate security vulnerabilities across our organization
- You will drive technical strategy for how we automate and scale vulnerability management, work closely with security engineers, product teams, and infrastructure partners to tackle complex cross-functional challenges, and help raise the bar for how the team builds software
- Own the technical architecture and roadmap for vulnerability management tooling, including systems that automate identification, prioritization, tracking, and remediation of vulnerabilities across diverse ecosystems and environments
- Lead the design and development of high-quality, scalable engineering solutions, balancing long-term maintainability with the practical needs of a fast-moving security organization
- Drive integration strategy across vulnerability scanners, aggregation pipelines, and downstream systems, making principled decisions about data ownership, tool consolidation, and signal quality
- Define and evolve the metrics and reporting frameworks the team uses to measure program effectiveness, moving the organization toward risk-based measurement rather than activity-based compliance tracking
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders including infrastructure, platform engineering, and product security teams to identify opportunities to embed security automation deeper into the development lifecycle
- Identify systemic gaps and ambiguous, high-priority problems that cut across team boundaries, propose solutions, and drive them to completion with or without direct authority
- Provide technical mentorship, design reviews, and code reviews to engineers on the team, helping others grow and maintaining a high standard of engineering craft
- Contribute to architectural decisions, tooling selections, and process improvements that have lasting impact on how the broader security organization operates
### The application process
- End Date: April 30, 2026
### Benefits
- Medical Care
- Life Insurance
- Retirement Savings
- Employee Assistance Programs
- With 9 standard holidays and four floating holidays, you get a total 13 paid days off each year
Sample Salesforce interview questions
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Design a system to schedule jobs in a distributed environment
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Design Ticketmaster
system designmedium - 3
Explain the differences between an interface and an abstract class
technicalmedium - 4
Given an array, find the two sum
codingeasy - 5
Find the longest substring without repeating characters
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