Sentry
Senior Security Engineer, Application & Platform Security
San Francisco, California · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$190k-$280kDetected 166 days ago
TypeScriptPythonGoRustCode ReviewAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDCybersecurityPenetration TestingManual TestingCommunicationProblem Solving
About the role
- The Security Team is responsible for securing all things Sentry: our customers, our code, and everything in between.
- We are a small but growing team with broad scope, high trust, and the autonomy to tackle hard security problems with creativity and an engineering mindset.
- That context shapes everything about how we operate.
Responsibilities
- Champion secure-by-design principles. Partner with engineering and product teams to embed security early in the development lifecycle and integrate security tooling into developer and CI/CD workflows.
- Validate and reproduce application and infrastructure security findings. Scanning, manual testing, coordinate penetration testing and vulnerability validation across Sentry's application, SDKs and cloud-based platform.
- We build and operate a complex application and cloud environment, including the novel attack surface introduced by Sentry's agentic product features and AI-assisted engineering practices.
- Enjoy operating cross-functionally, building relationships, and influencing with technical expertise, and shaping how security gets done across a fast-moving engineering organization.
- Reach for automation first, you'd rather build a scalable, systematic solution to a security problem than solve it manually a hundred times.
- Thrive with real ownership, you prefer to build and drive work end-to-end, you're energized by the autonomy that comes with being on a small, high-trust team.
- You'll partner closely with product and engineering teams to influence how features are designed and built from the start.
Requirements
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field, equivalent training, or professional experience
- Direct experience with security reviews, SDLC practices, secure CI/CD, architecture reviews, threat modeling, vulnerability management, bug bounty and responsible disclosure programs
- Experienced and comfortable programming in at least one language, must be comfortable reviewing Python, Typescript, Go, Rust applications
- Familiarity with using distributed cloud technology (AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, etc.) and securing those technologies (cloud networking, IAM, etc.)
- 5+ years of industry experience designing, building, securing complex applications and large-scale distributed cloud systems
- A collaborative approach to problem solving paired with strong written and verbal communication
- Not sure if you meet 100% of the qualifications? We encourage you to apply anyway. We're interested in people are excited about this opportunity and eager to grow.
- The base salary range (or hourly wage range, if applicable) that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $190,000 to $280,000 USD. A successful candidate's actual base salary (or hourly wage) amount will be determined by a variety of relevant factors including, without limitation, the candidate's work location, education, work and other relevant experience, skills, and job-related knowledge. A successful candidate will be eligible to participate in Sentry's employee benefit plans/programs applicable to the candidate's position (including incentive compensation, equity grants, paid time off, and group health insurance coverage). See Sentry Benefits https://sentry.io/careers/ for more details about the Company's benefit plans/programs.
Compensation
- The base salary range (or hourly wage range, if applicable) that Sentry reasonably expects to pay for this position is $190,000 to $280,000 USD.
Company info
- our customers, our code, and everything in between.
- We work at a company with a strong developer culture, building a product that millions of developers genuinely love and rely on.
- As a Senior Security Engineer on this team, you'll work across application and platform security domains.
- Own and mature Sentry's security review program. From secure code review, to architecture review, and threat modeling. You will build processes, tooling, and culture which makes security a natural part of how we ship and operate.
Equal opportunity
- Sentry is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to its employees and candidates for employment regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other legally-protected characteristic. This commitment includes the provision of reasonable accommodations to employees and candidates for employment with physical or mental disabilities who require such accommodations in order to (a) perform the essential functions of their jobs, or (b) seek employment with Sentry. We strive to build a diverse team, with an inclusive culture where every teammate can thrive. Sentry is an open-source company because we believe that everyone, everywhere, should have the ability and tools to make great software. Software should be accessible. That starts with making our industry accessible.
- If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at accommodations@sentry.io.
- Sentry is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to its employees and candidates for employment regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other legally-protected characteristic.
- This commitment includes the provision of reasonable accommodations to employees and candidates for employment with physical or mental disabilities who require such accommodations in order to (a) perform the essential functions of their jobs, or (b) seek employment with Sentry.
Visa & Work Authorization
- candidates for employment regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, or other legally-protected
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