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Persona · 5 days ago

Senior Security Engineer, Product

San Francisco, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

4+ years exp

Persona is a configurable identity platform built for businesses in a digital-first world. They are seeking a Senior Security Engineer to collaborate with engineering teams to ensure robust security measures while supporting rapid product delivery.

Cyber SecurityFraud DetectionIdentity ManagementInformation TechnologySaaS

Work & Life Balance

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Collaborate cross-functionally with our product teams to understand, manage, and mitigate the security risks associated with their work, while supporting their ability to ship quickly

Build tools and processes for automating product security controls and monitoring at scale

Support product security initiatives across our fast-growing engineering team

Participate in the on-call rotation for the Security Team

Qualification

Product securitySoftware engineeringRuby on RailsPassion for securityBias toward shippingCommunication skillsCollaboration skillsProblem-solving

Required

Communication and Collaboration skills. Ability to explain security topics clearly to non-technical business representatives. Drive to enable other engineers to ship securely

Bias toward shipping. Improving our product quickly and continually is one of Persona's greatest strengths. You should be excited about finding ways to integrate security into our product delivery processes without slowing things down

Proactive approach to solving problems. We're looking for someone that can tell us how to solve our problems, not someone who waits to be told how to solve problems

Passion for security. You should be excited about keeping your skills and knowledge sharp, and sharing that with your peers and the rest of the company

Experience. 2+ years of software engineering, 2+ years of product security at a fast-moving technology company

Preferred

Experience securing a large Ruby on Rails application

Benefits

Medical

Dental

Vision

3% 401(k) contribution

Unlimited PTO

Quarterly mental health days

Family planning benefits

Professional development stipend

Wellness benefits

Company

Persona

Persona is an identity verification and management platform that enables businesses to automate and streamline their verification processes.

Founded in 2018

San Francisco, California, USA

201-500 employees

https://withpersona.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (8)

2024 (2)

2023 (1)

2022 (2)

2021 (1)

2020 (1)

Funding

Current Stage

Late Stage

Total Funding

$417.5M

Key Investors

Founders FundIndex VenturesCoatue

2025-04-30Series D· $200M

2021-09-15Series C· $150M

2021-05-04Series B· $50M

Leadership Team

Rick Song

Co-Founder & CEO

Charles Yeh

Co-Founder & CTO

Recent News

Tech in Asia

Roblox unveils global facial age checks to access chat

2026-01-08

Techmeme

Roblox expands mandatory age estimations for chat features to all regions using Persona's tech, after a rollout in Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands (Jay Peters/The Verge)

2026-01-07

Index Ventures

Index Ventures Portfolio

2025-12-30

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