Senior or Staff Product Security Engineer

Requirements

• 6+ years in application or product security, with a software engineering background. You can ship production code, not just review it.
• Deep experience securing backend services and APIs, including OAuth 2.0/OIDC, PKCE, MFA, session management, and token handling.
• Experience building and maintaining security tooling and automation (static analysis, CI integrations, custom scanners), and comfort working with LLM-based systems.
• Hands-on experience running or triaging a bug bounty program.
• A track record of getting engineering teams to prioritize and fix security issues through influence and good judgment, not escalation.
• Clear written communication and the ability to explain risk to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Nice to have
• Mobile application security experience (OWASP MASVS), ideally including shipping fixes in a mobile codebase.
• Android platform or app security experience.
• Experience assessing AI/LLM features for risks like prompt injection and data leakage.
• Familiarity with children's privacy requirements (e.g. COPPA) or other sensitive consumer data.
• Exposure to embedded, IoT, or firmware security.
• Familiarity with the EU Cyber Resilience Act or UK PSTI.
• Incident response experience.

Our competitive compensation package includes

• Competitive Salary + Equity Package
• 401K matching
• Wellness, learning, and home-office budgets
• Health, Dental & Vision Medical Plans
• Tremendous autonomy to set the direction of your work
• Unlimited PTO
• Company holidays on the first Friday of every month (Except November, December. & January)
• The anticipated base salary range for this position is $200K-250K per year. This range reflects the compensation Skylight reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be determined based on job-related factors, which may include experience, qualifications, skills, education, geographic location, and internal equity. Skylight also offers benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and paid time off.

Equal Employment Opportunity