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The Browser Company · 2 days ago

Staff Security Software Engineer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$240K/yr - $300K/yr

5+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Own and evolve our security strategy, balancing R&D for our AI assistant’s security framework with proactive risk mitigation for both employees and users.

Work with the engineering team to build a new security sandbox that protects our assistant from emerging threats, ensuring secure AI interactions on the web.

Build security critical infrastructure that powers the future of AI-powered web interactions.

Conduct threat modeling for systems and features, especially those interfacing with untrusted sources, to preemptively mitigate security risks.

Partner with engineers to incorporate security best practices into new features, with a focus on protecting AI functionality from prompt injections, jailbreaks, and other vulnerabilities.

Design and manage security strategies unique to AI technologies, supporting incident responses and enhancing the assistant’s resilience.

Develop and uphold security policies and procedures across the organization, support compliance efforts, and lead incident response.

Get onboarded onto the team and codebase with an onboarding buddy.

Receive a number of onboarding presentations on how we give each other feedback, the phases a startup goes through, our technical strategy, and more.

Get familiar with our application, infrastructure, data stores, and existing security policies.

Have shipped a few bug fixes and features across our codebase.

Have pair programmed with a portion of the engineering team.

Be the point of contact for security reviews across some portion of our codebase.

Understand the AI threat landscape and mitigate major AI security hazards or prompt injections.

Deploying new security infrastructure to enable product to develop secure by default.

Have a strong grasp on our security needs and start prioritizing which projects we need to move forward.

Be regularly posting feedback about using the browser in our #dogfooding channel.

Conduct security reviews across our server and client repositories.

Collaborate with engineers to figure out how to bake security into our architecture.

Own part of our security strategy and prioritize security projects to move forward.

Own our security policies and procedures, and ensure we adhere to them.

Support and lead security incident responses across the organization.

Be interview trained and interviewing candidates for roles at the Browser Company.

Qualification

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Security EngineeringSecurity ReviewsGolangSwiftPythonComplex CodebasesTech LeadingUser Privacy

Required

5+ years leading large-scale security projects with a focus on security engineering.

Proficiency in programming languages (such as Golang, Swift, Python, etc.)

Experience conducting security reviews for application and infrastructure changes

Excellent communication skills and able to work cross-functionally with Legal and IT to develop and implement new security policies and procedures

Care deeply about user privacy and are vigilant about mitigating risks

Experience working across a variety of complex codebases

Experience tech leading critical projects or initiatives within your team and organization

At least 4 hours of overlap time with team members located in Eastern Time Zone

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package with employee medical, dental, and vision - we cover 100% of premiums for employees, and up to 95% for dependents

401k plan

Flexible vacation policy - on average, our team members take between 15-20 vacation days a year, plus federal holidays (holidays vary by location)

Remote-friendly working environment - our core working hours are 11 AM-2 PM Eastern Time

12 weeks of paid parental leave

$1,500 USD home office stipend

Employees based in the US also receive additional services like free annual memberships to One Medical (where available), Talkspace, Teladoc, and HealthAdvocate