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Security Engineer

Traversal· Engineering
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New York$240k - $300kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Security Engineer at Traversal responsible for raising the security floor by building AI-native security mechanisms, embedding security into products and cloud infrastructure, and leading high-impact, end-to-end security initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Secure Constructs & Paved Paths: Design and ship the libraries, defaults, and workflows that make the secure way to build at Traversal the easiest way.
  • Security Invariants & Guardrails: Define and implement controls that continuously verify security properties across our products and cloud infrastructure.
  • Build Security into Products: Design and ship security capabilities in Traversal’s products that support enterprise security teams.
  • Findings to Fixes: Discover issues, verify them, assess them, ship fixes with system owners, and add tests or controls that prevent recurrence.
  • Security Architecture: Architect security systems and major components, defining the interfaces, invariants, and evolution paths that let them scale across SaaS and BYOC deployments.
  • Delivery & Adoption: Lead multi-phase rollouts, migrations, and deprecations across teams with careful sequencing and de-risking, and land them with enablement and measurable success criteria.
  • Operational Ownership: Ship operationally complete systems with monitoring, alert quality, runbooks, and safe rollout and upgrade paths; debug and resolve security issues in your area.
  • Technical Direction: Set direction for scoped security domains, connect technical work to customer and business outcomes, and shape the follow-up roadmap with product and engineering leadership.
  • Mentorship & Leverage: Mentor engineers and emerging technical leaders, and create patterns, libraries, and reference implementations that let others extend your work without depending on you.

Qualifications

  • 4-6+ years building or securing production software or infrastructure at technically rigorous companies or teams, including sensitive, mission-critical systems.
  • Proven ability to independently lead ambiguous, cross-team security projects from design through implementation, migration, and adoption, with minimal structure.
  • Strong programming skills in Python, Rust, or Go and ability to work effectively in an existing codebase.
  • Hands-on depth in application security or cloud security, with working knowledge of the other, gained either in a security role or by owning security-critical systems as a software or infrastructure engineer.
  • Technical depth in risk assessment. Looks at standards like NIST & SOC2 as a starting point, and not necessarily the right baseline.
  • Practical understanding of authentication, authorization, trust boundaries, secrets, and common failure modes in distributed systems.
  • Clear written communication and a collaborative approach to technical disagreements.

Skills

Required:Programming (Python, Rust, or Go)Security engineering (application or cloud)Risk assessmentSecurity architectureCommunication & collaboration

Benefits

  • We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance, and additional benefits.
  • U.S. base salary range for this full-time, in-person role in New York is $240,000-$300,000, plus equity and benefits.
Last updated Oct 22, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Traversal

The only AI SRE for the enterprise

Traversal cuts through alert noise, surfaces root causes, and guides your team to remediation — so incidents get fixed in minutes, not hours.

AISREcomplex systemsalertingroot cause analysisincident preventionenterprise
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