Traversal

Traversal

Security Engineer

New York · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$240k-$300kDetected 2 days ago
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Lottery odds (Level IV)94
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About the role

  • This is not a compliance role, and it isn't about the basics like adding SAST to pipelines.
  • Traversal serves Fortune 50 enterprises across multi-tenant environments, BYOC deployments, and several compliance regimes.
  • Your work will span application behavior, identity, infrastructure, deployment boundaries, data security, and access controls, continuously pushing Traversal's security posture forward.

Responsibilities

  • Secure Constructs & Paved Paths: Design and ship the libraries, defaults, and workflows that make the secure way to build at Traversal the easiest way.
  • Security Invariants & Guardrails: Define and implement controls that continuously verify security across our products and cloud infrastructure.
  • Build Security into Products: Design and ship security capabilities in Traversal's products that support enterprise security teams.
  • Delivery & Adoption: Lead multi-phase rollouts, migrations, and deprecations across teams with careful sequencing and de-risking, and land them with enablement and measurable success criteria.
  • Mentorship & Leverage: Mentor engineers and emerging technical leaders, and create patterns, libraries, and reference implementations that let others extend your work without depending on you.
  • Production complexity was already outpacing what engineering teams could manage manually, and AI-generated code is accelerating that gap.
  • Traversal is fully in-office, 5 days a week, based in New York near Madison Square Park. We have a collaborative, hard-working culture and are energized by building the future of AI-powered software maintenance.
  • We have a collaborative, hard-working culture and are energized by building the future of AI-powered software maintenance.

Requirements

  • Strong programming skills in a language such as Python, Rust, or Go and the ability to work effectively in an existing codebase.
  • Hands-on depth in application security or cloud security, with working knowledge of the other, gained either in a security role or by owning security-critical systems as a software or infrastructure engineer.

Nice to have

  • Experience with enterprise customer security requirements.
  • Detection engineering, security telemetry, or automated control validation.
  • Offensive testing experience paired with shipped remediations.
  • Experience with applying formal methods for security.
  • You don't need experience in every area above.
  • We're interested in what you've built, how you made decisions, and how your work changed the systems and teams around you.
  • Individual compensation is determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.
  • Traversal is a place to take on hard, meaningful problems with real ownership from day one.

Compensation

  • We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance, and additional benefits.
  • The U.S. base salary range for this full-time, in-person role in New York is $240,000-$300,000, plus equity and benefits.
  • Our salary ranges are based on location, level, and role.
  • Individual compensation is determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.
  • We offer competitive salary and equity packages, health insurance, fertility benefits, a great tech setup stipend and flexible time off.
  • Plus in-office snacks, team happy hours and outings, an annual company offsite, and plenty of built in time to collaborate across teams.

Company info

  • Our mission is to free engineers from endless firefighting and give them more time to focus on creative, high-impact work.
  • As a Security Engineer at Traversal, your mission is to raise the security floor across the company by building AI-native security mechanisms tailored to how we work.
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