Senior Security Engineer, Product Security

About the Role

As a Senior Product Security Engineer, you'll partner with product and engineering teams to make what we ship safe by default, splitting your time between building production security services and reviewing what other teams build: designs before code exists, pull requests before merge, and running systems before someone else finds the problem. You'll be the primary security partner for one or more business units — GRC, security operations, and monitoring carry their own parts of the mandate, but you own the product security outcome. GoodLeap builds in TypeScript, Node.js, .NET, and Python, and you'll work across all of it — we care that you can move between stacks, not that you've spent your career in one. We're also shipping LLM-backed and agentic features into a regulated consumer-finance product; adversarially testing those systems (prompt injection, jailbreaks, tool abuse, exfiltration) and helping define what's "safe enough to launch" is core to this role. You don't need years of AI security experience — you need to show you can take an unfamiliar system, reason about how it fails, and produce findings a product team will act on.

Responsibilities

• Adversarially test our AI and LLM-backed features. Design and run attacks against LLM-backed applications and agents — prompt injection, jailbreaks, tool abuse, data exfiltration — and turn findings into pass/fail criteria product teams will act on.
• Build and operate production security services. Backend services and internal tooling — APIs, streaming transports, proxy/CLI/chat interfaces — in whichever of TypeScript, Node.js, .NET, or Python fits the problem, held to the same bar as any other production service: test coverage, CI, dependency management.
• Find new ways to automate the work. Notice when something we do by hand has become automatable, prototype it, and make the case— even when it means replacing a tool we bought last year.
• Review pull request vulnerability findings. Triage what scanning and AI-assisted review surface across our stacks, separating real findings from noise. Go deep by hand on auth paths and high-risk changes, and feed what you learn back into the tooling.
• Threat model from product designs. Review PRDs and technical designs before code exists, infer trust boundaries and data flows in unfamiliar domains, and raise security questions while the design is still cheap to change.
• Test by hand and validate what you find. Manual testing of web applications and APIs, triage for real exploitability, and retest fixes.
• Support the red team's bug bounty and continuous penetration testing programs.
• Keep the AppSec tooling estate running and low-friction. SAST/dependency scanning tuning, finding triage and routing, SSO and access management, and automating the repetitive parts so the program scales without headcount.
• Secure the infrastructure your tooling runs on. IAM least-privilege scoping, secrets management, and container/network lifecycle — as infrastructure as code, with automated drift checks.
• Enable engineers to do the right thing. Build security training and documentation engineers will actually use.
• Evaluate tools and help set the AI bar. Run structured bake-offs of security products against defined requirements and help set the standards AI/agent systems must satisfy before reaching production.
• Back up the rest of the security team. Support investigations, threat hunting, and incident response for the products you cover, and contribute to the vulnerability management lifecycle and security analytics platform.

Required Skills

• Strong backend engineering in at least one modern language, with at least one service you built that others depend on — async patterns, HTTP APIs, and streaming transports are familiar ground. Depth in TypeScript, Node.js, .NET, or Python plus the willingness to move between them matters more than any particular stack.
• Ability to read code you didn't write, across more than one language and stack, well enough to judge whether a reported finding is real, catch the ones tooling missed, and propose a fix the engineer can act on.
• Knowledge of how identity and authorization actually fail: token exchange and scope handling, session lifetime and revocation, request signing, OAuth pitfalls, and network-layer issues like SSRF and DNS rebinding — reasoning that finds real bugs, not checklist recall.
• Understanding of API standards and how to secure them: REST and GraphQL in practice, OpenAPI and schema contracts, input validation, rate limiting, gateway-level auth, and webhook and service-to-service verification.
• Hands-on testing of web applications and APIs — manual, not just scanner-driven — plus the triage, the clear write-up, and the retest.
• Threat modeling from written designs: ability to read a PRD in an unfamiliar domain, infer trust boundaries and data flows, and ask the right questions while the answer is still cheap.
• Working AWS and infrastructure-as-code competence: IAM scoping, secrets management, container/compute lifecycle, network egress control, and infrastructure defined as code.
• Practical exposure to AI/LLM security: you have attacked an LLM-backed application or agent — at work, in a CTF, in published research, or in your own lab — and can tell us what you found and why it worked.
• Ability to write and speak for people who are not in security: findings engineers act on, documentation they use, and explanations that hold up in front of a product manager, an executive, or Legal.

Preferred Qualifications

• Having owned an AppSec tooling estate: SAST/SCA tuning, finding routing, false-positive reduction
• Running structured vendor evaluations or proofs of concept
• Contributing to security policy or standards, including for AI systems
• Delivering security training or building hands-on learning environments
• Depth in cryptography and key management
• Detection engineering, incident response, or threat hunting exposure
• An understanding of how SaaS products get built — roadmaps, prioritization, why the ship date exists. Prior product or engineering management experience is a plus, not an expectation.

Pay

$146,000 - $185,000 a year. In addition to the above salary, this role may be eligible for a bonus.