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Senior Security Engineer
Location
Washington
Posted
1 day ago
Salary
$110K - $300K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Security Engineer
Hopper
• Own and evolve our vulnerability management program with a focus on application security — container images, dependencies, code scanning, and runtime detection • Build and maintain security tooling that integrates directly into CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows, so security happens automatically rather than as a gate • Use AI extensively to write code faster, automate analyses that would otherwise require manual review, and build intelligent tooling that scales beyond what a small team could achieve manually • Assess and improve how we leverage available telemetry across our systems • Work directly with engineering teams to influence secure development practices — not by writing standards and documents, but by shipping tools and defaults that make the secure path the easy path • Investigate and respond to security findings when needed, but spend more of your time building systems that prevent and detect issues than manually chasing them • Adapt quickly as priorities shift — our team is agile and tomorrow's challenge may look different from todays
Job Requirements
- At least 5 years experience software and/or platform engineering, with the ability to design, build, and maintain production-quality tools
- Deep experience in application security and vulnerability management — you understand CVEs, dependency risks, container security, and SDLC integration, and you have opinions about what's worth fixing and what's noise
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, ideally GCP/GKE or equivalent, with the ability to adapt to our stack
- A demonstrated habit of using AI tools — coding assistants, LLMs — as a core part of how you build and analyse, not an occasional shortcut
- A bias toward automation — when you see a repetitive manual task, your instinct is to write a tool, not a runbook
- Comfort with ambiguity and ownership — you'll often be the only person on a problem and will need to make judgment calls on priority, approach, and scope without waiting for direction
- Experience influencing engineering culture around security, knowing how to make developers care without slowing them down
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to articulate our security posture clearly to customers when needed.
Benefits
- Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and the upsides of pre-IPO equity packages.
- Unlimited PTO.
- Carrot Cash travel stipend.
- Access to co-working space on demand through FlexDesk AND Work-from-home stipend.
- Please ask us about our very generous parental leave, much above industry standards!.
- Entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business.
- Open communication with management and company leadership.
- Small, dynamic teams = massive impact.
- 100% employer paid Medical, Dental and Vision coverage for employees.
- Access to Disability & Life insurance.
- Health Reimbursement Account (HRA).
- DCA/ FSA and access to 401k plan.
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