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Security Engineer, Level 4

Snap Inc.· Engineering
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Hybrid (Bellevue; Los Angeles; Palo Alto)$133k - $235k + equityFull timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Security Engineer role at Snap Inc. to design, implement, and scale security controls across infrastructure, applications, identity, and cloud environments; conduct security assessments and threat modeling; build automation and tooling; use AI in secure development; collaborate with product/engineering/ops; respond to incidents and evolve security standards.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and scale security controls across infrastructure, applications, identity, and cloud environments
  • Conduct in-depth security assessments, threat modeling, and code reviews to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities
  • Build automation, tooling, and systems that improve security compliance, observability, and governance
  • Utilize AI tools and high velocity engineering workflows to design and ship scalable services while upholding rigorous standards for code correctness, security, and production ready quality code
  • Partner with product, engineering, and operations teams to harden systems and reduce risk from design through deployment
  • Investigate and respond to security incidents, conduct root cause analysis, and recommend remediation strategies
  • Help define and evolve security standards, practices, and documentation to elevate the organization’s overall security maturity

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical work experience
  • 2+ years of post-Bachelor’s security related experience; or Master’s degree in a technical field + 1+ year of post-grad security related experience; or PhD in a relevant technical field
  • Expertise in one of the following domains: infrastructure security, enterprise security, access management, application security, detection and response, or spam and abuse

Skills

Required:Security engineering principlesAI tools for developmentSecurity toolingProgramming languagesCommunication and collaboration
Nice to have:Security advocacy

Benefits

  • paid parental leave
  • comprehensive medical coverage
  • emotional and mental health support programs
  • compensation packages that let you share in Snap’s long-term success
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Snap Inc.

We contribute to human progress by empowering people to express themselves, live in the moment, learn about the world, and have fun together.

We believe the camera presents the greatest opportunity to improve the way people live and communicate.

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