# Senior Security Engineer > Raydar · San Francisco, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-01 **Salary:** USD 200,000–300,000 **Workplace:** on_site ## Description About the company Our client is a software company. The role Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Take charge of security for a software product and the business behind it, covering design reviews, product-level protections, outside assurance work and incident preparedness. The role blends hands-on engineering with setting standards and communicating risk to technical and non-technical audiences. What you'll do \- Hold overall responsibility for security across application, cloud and network layers. \- Run design reviews and threat assessments for new systems with few established patterns. \- Engineer protective features directly into the product, such as customer data separation, safe secret usage, human sign-off steps and detailed activity records. \- Author the security documentation that prospective technical customers read before adopting the product. \- Coordinate third-party testing, compliance programs and customer security questionnaires and reviews. \- Lead incident preparedness and response, including fast notification commitments. \- Maintain ongoing cloud access auditing and automate automated security checks within build and deployment pipelines. \- Define internal policies for handling sensitive customer secrets, outbound data and device management. ## Requirements What we're looking for \- At least 4 years of hands-on experience in application and infrastructure security. \- Solid coding ability in a modern language such as Python or Go. \- Practical skill at assessing threats and finding vulnerabilities. \- Working knowledge of network security and identity-centered access controls for services and workloads. \- Strong grounding in security on a leading cloud platform, including federated identity and codified infrastructure. \- Skill at explaining risk and trade-offs to both engineers and senior business leaders. \- Comfort operating independently in ambiguous situations. \- Willingness to work in the office five days a week in a fast-paced startup setting. Bonus points \- Background securing autonomous or code-running systems. \- Deep knowledge of workload isolation and system hardening techniques. \- Experience in offensive security or penetration testing. \- Experience operating a vulnerability reporting or reward program. \- A track record of guiding a company through audits and customer security reviews. \- Familiarity with corporate IT environments and access management tooling. ## Benefits Compensation and benefits \- Base salary: USD 200,000 to 300,000 per year \- Health insurance \- Flexible time off Location and work model \- San Francisco, CA, United States \- On-site, five days per week \- Full-time ## Apply [Apply at Raydar](https://apply.workable.com/raydar/j/620A5E5738/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)