Security Engineer

Security Engineer

Job Location: Sunnyvale, CA/ San Jose, CA (Onsite)

Duration: 12+ Months Contract with Possible Extension

Interview Mode: 2 Video Interviews

Project Details

We are looking for Senior Security Engineers to support a security engineering project focused on bridging automated security scanning/remediation systems with product engineering teams. The team will be responsible for threat modeling, vulnerability triage, exploitability validation, automated patch QA, and driving security issues through production closure.

Required Skills

·         Strong hands-on experience in Application/Product Security Engineering.

·         Experience with Threat Modeling, including trust boundaries, attack surfaces, data flows, STRIDE/PASTA.

·         Strong knowledge of CWE, CVE, OWASP Top 10, vulnerability severity, and remediation SLAs.

·         Ability to reproduce vulnerabilities, build PoCs, and create test harnesses.

·         Strong programming skills in at least 2 of: C++, Go, Java, Python.

·         Strong debugging and source-code review experience.

·         Knowledge of secure coding practices, input validation, boundary checking, and safe memory access.

·         Experience validating automated/AI-generated security patches, including code-diff review and regression testing.

·         Ability to work directly with product engineering teams and drive vulnerabilities through verified resolution.

Nice to Have

·         SAST/DAST and automated security scanning experience.

·         Fuzz testing and differential testing.

·         Experience with distributed/microservice architectures.

·         Experience with AI/agentic code-generation or automated remediation tools.

·         Prompt tuning/debugging of automated coding agents.