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Security Engineer

Clay· 100 - Engineering
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Hybrid (New York), Hybrid (San Francisco)$225k - $300kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Senior or staff-level security engineer role focused on building a modern security organization with hands-on production code, AI-assisted security workflows, and collaboration with Infrastructure and Product Engineering.

Responsibilities

  • Build security primitives, tooling, and automation that scale with the product and engineering org
  • Define and implement our strategy for modern security workflows: AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, automated code review, threat detection, and remediation
  • Collaborate with Infrastructure and Product Engineering to make secure defaults the easiest path
  • Own projects end to end: design, implementation, rollout, and measurement

Qualifications

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping production systems
  • Deep expertise in either cloud security or application security, with the ability to flex into the adjacent domain
  • Ability to build, not just advise: translate risk into concrete engineering work and ship solutions
  • Comfort with ambiguity: thrive when building from first principles and defining what good looks like
  • Forward-thinking about tooling: interest in leveraging modern automation and AI to scale security operations while maintaining engineering rigor

Skills

Required:Software engineering fundamentalsCloud securityApplication security
Nice to have:AI-driven security tooling
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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