Persona Identities
Senior Product Security Engineer
San Francisco · Senior · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 92 days ago
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About the role
- When security fails at most companies, systems go down.
- At an identity verification company, real people's identities are compromised.
- This is a product security role embedded in a generalist security team.
Responsibilities
- Persona builds identity verification infrastructure where security isn't a layer we add later, it's core to everything we ship.
- As AI tooling expands what engineers can build and how fast they can build it, the attack surface grows with it. Someone proactively needs to own that problem.
- As AI tooling expands what engineers can build and how fast they can build it, the attack surface grows with it.
- Someone proactively needs to own that problem.
- Drive the full vulnerability lifecycle and how Persona responds to external threats.
- Design and build autonomous systems and AI tooling that scale security across every team and product
- Partner with product engineers to shape how new features and systems get built securely
Requirements
- 6+ years of software engineering experience
- 3+ years in product security
Nice to have
- Familiarity with SAST/DAST tooling, dependency scanning, or bug bounty programs
- Compliance experience (SOC 2, HIPAA) in a cloud-native environment
- You've built systems where data sensitivity wasn't an afterthought - HIPAA, financial data, identity, etc.
Company info
- Small and senior by design.
- High ownership from day one - this isn't a team where your work disappears into a large org.
- Based in SF.
- Relocation assistance available.
- Benefits and Perks
- For full-time US-based employees (excluding internship and contractor opportunities), Persona offers a wide range of benefits, including medical, dental, and vision, 3% 401(k) contribution, unlimited PTO, quarterly mental health days, family planning benefits, professional development stipend, wellness benefits, among others.
- For full-time UK employees, Persona offers a wide range of benefits, including private medical insurance, dental insurance, a 6% employer pension contribution, unlimited PTO, a monthly wellness stipend, professional development stipend, co-working stipend, and more.
- As part of our interview process, all candidates will be asked to verify their identity with Persona.
- This step is used solely to confirm that candidates are who they say they are, and will have no impact on hiring decisions.
- Persona is the configurable identity platform built for businesses in a digital-first world.
- We've built Persona to support practically every use case and industry - that's why we're able to serve a wide range of leading companies.
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