Senior Software Engineer (Security)
Bellevue · Bellevue, WA (BEL-01) · USD 191,000-253,000 · 8+ years experience · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 8+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Bellevue · Bellevue, WA (BEL-01)
- Salary
- USD 191,000-253,000 · Base salary
About the role
- The Senior Software Engineer (Security) will bridge the gap between security operations, platform architecture, and product delivery.
- This role involves collaborating across Firmware, Platform, OS, Client/App, and Cloud teams to design, implement, and verify secure fixes across the hardware-to-cloud lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Architect, integrate, and maintain automated security tooling including SAST, DAST, SCA, Secret Scanning, and SBOM generation within CI/CD pipelines.
- Triage findings from automated tools, internal testing, and external disclosures to translate alerts into actionable Jira tickets.
- Act as the technical security authority for Product Owners and feature engineers to prioritize and implement secure fixes.
- Lead threat modeling sessions and architectural security reviews for components spanning bare-metal firmware, custom Android OS layers, client apps, and cloud backends.
- Participate in product security incident response (PSIRT) and conduct root-cause analysis.
- Perform vulnerability research, fuzzing, and reverse engineering on internal targets.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on security, systems engineering, or DevSecOps.
- Proven experience integrating security automation into build pipelines and collaborating with software teams to patch vulnerabilities.
- Proficiency in at least two of the following: C/C++, Rust, Go, Python, or C#.
- Hands-on experience with modern CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions or CircleCI.
- Experience with cloud environments (AWS or Azure) and knowledge of Terraform and Kubernetes.
- Exceptional cross-functional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Must be clearance eligible.
Preferred qualifications
- Ability to deliver high-quality results at pace in a startup or high-growth environment.
- Experience integrating Unity-based applications with external hardware or systems.
- Familiarity with real-time data streaming, message passing, or protocols like gRPC, Protobuf, MQTT, WebSockets, or ROS.
- Experience with cross-platform or cross-service integrations, including designing APIs/SDKs.
- Android development experience below the application layer.
- Understanding of software-hardware interaction from device drivers and firmware interfaces to the application layer.
- Professional software development lifecycle experience using version control and automated testing frameworks.
Benefits
- Salary range: $191,000—$253,000 USD
- Highly competitive equity grants
- Comprehensive benefits package available at little to no cost
Skills
- C/C++
- Rust
- Go
- Python
- C#
- GitHub Actions
- CircleCI
- AWS
- Azure
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- SAST
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- DAST
- SCA
- SBOM