Role overview

Staff Security Engineer

Requirements and responsibilities

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You'll Thrive Here If You:

  • think like both a builder and a breaker, and understand security from first principles
  • can analyze systems for weaknesses — whether they're in business logic, configuration, or code
  • translate security concerns into engineering action without being the "no" person
  • are an excellent communicator who can document and evangelize best practices across the org
  • stay current with security research, tooling, and threats — and put that knowledge into action

What You'll Do

  • Own security across the stack — applications, services, infrastructure, and developer workflows
  • Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate risks in both infrastructure and application codebases
  • Lead secure code reviews, architecture discussions, and threat modeling sessions
  • Build tooling and automations that help prevent security issues before they reach production
  • Harden authentication and access control across internal and external surfaces
  • Partner closely with engineers across teams to design secure-by-default APIs, workflows, and deployments
  • Investigate vulnerabilities, respond to security incidents, and manage disclosure processes when needed

Who You Are

  • 6+ years of experience as a software engineer with a strong interest in security engineering
  • You've led or heavily contributed to security engineering efforts across applications, infrastructure, or both
  • Experienced with threat modeling, secure coding practices, and vulnerability management
  • Worked with CI/CD systems, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, etc.), and containerized environments
  • You've responded to real-world security incidents, led postmortems, or driven remediation efforts

Nice to haves

  • Experience with security reviews of WebRTC, media pipelines, or real-time systems
  • Contributions to open-source security tooling or research
  • Hands-on experience with static and dynamic analysis tools, fuzzing, or sandboxing
  • You've built (or tried to build) something with LiveKit

Our Commitment to You

  • An opportunity to build something truly impactful to the world
  • Contribute to open source alongside world-class engineers
  • Competitive salary and equity package
  • Health, dental, and vision benefits
  • Flexible vacation policy
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