As a Senior Security Engineer, you will own endpoint detection and cloud security, lead incident response, and establish security policies to protect Kin's data and systems.
Security Engineer
📜 Description
- Partner with engineers on security decisions throughout feature design, implementation, release, and adoption.
- Build security-focused features and lead improvements across the codebase.
- Use and evaluate AI tools to scale code analysis, vulnerability research, and secure engineering practices.
- Conduct offensive research, develop proofs of concept, and validate vulnerabilities.
- Assess exploitability and real-world impact, define remediation criteria, and verify fixes.
- Address root causes and prevent broader classes of vulnerabilities.
🛠️ Requirements
- A demonstrated track record of finding and exploiting application vulnerabilities through source code analysis and hands-on research.
- The ability to independently navigate unfamiliar codebases, understand complex architectures, and reason about runtime behavior and trust boundaries.
- Experience with application security challenges, including authentication, authorization, injection, and unsafe handling of untrusted data.
- Sound judgment about exploitability and real-world impact, and the ability to communicate findings and remediation options clearly.
- Strong software engineering skills, including the ability to implement durable security fixes. Experience in Clojure, or a strong desire to learn.
- A thoughtful approach to AI-assisted security work, using these tools to extend your expertise while independently validating their output.
- Ownership and curiosity: you pursue difficult questions, collaborate closely with engineers, and follow findings through to resolution.
✨ Benefits
- Meaningful equity
- Fully employer-covered medical insurance
- Fully employer-covered dental insurance
- Fully employer-covered vision insurance, with 75% coverage for dependents
- 401(k) with employer match, available to enroll after the first 30 days
- Flexible, unlimited paid time off, including sick time
- Autonomy and an environment that supports growth, learning, and development
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About the Role
We’re looking for a Security Engineer with deep expertise in source code analysis and offensive product security research. You’ll dig into complex software architectures, trace how code behaves at runtime, uncover subtle vulnerabilities, and address the systemic flaws behind them.
Embedded in our core engineering team, you’ll help shape security decisions from early design through release and adoption. This is a hands-on engineering and research role: you’ll combine your security expertise with frontier AI tools to find vulnerabilities, develop fixes, and make Metabase secure by default across its product, dependencies, and runtime.
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