Senior Security Engineer

You.com is an AI-powered search and productivity platform focused on creating a personalized and efficient search experience. The Senior Security Engineer will support engineering teams in securely designing and maintaining software and infrastructure while fostering a culture of security and trust. This role involves acting as a security expert, collaborating with teams, and managing security tasks to enhance platform security.

Responsibilities:

• Act as a security subject matter expert to support engineers through design reviews, threat modeling, code reviews, patch creation, and security testing
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to architect resilient, security-first services
• Engineer and implement secure, scalable, and resilient systems
• Develop and customize high-signal security tooling through automation and plugins
• Manage day-to-day security tasks, including abuse remediation, threat research, and incident handling
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response efforts to ensure platform and customer security

Requirements:

• 9+ years in security roles across disciplines such as application security, DevOps, security operations, software engineering, red teaming, incident response, security research, and AI security
• Proficiency in programming languages like JavaScript, Python, and Terraform
• Expertise in AWS cloud services, GitHub, Google Workspace, and Kubernetes
• Hands-on experience in threat modeling, penetration testing, creating security requirements, conducting source code reviews, leading security design reviews, incident response, and securing cloud environments
• Self-motivated, collaborative, and skilled at prioritizing work
• A strong advocate of ownership, capable of managing problems end-to-end individually or within a team
• Proven experience managing security programs with a focus on partnership and enablement