Principal Product Security Engineer

As a Product Security Engineer, you will collaborate cross-functionally with engineering teams to identify and address potential vulnerabilities in our products and services. You will advocate and shape security best practices across SoundCloud's Engineering, Product, and Design organization. This position offers a unique opportunity to play a direct, pivotal role in safeguarding our products against emerging cyber threats to our platform, artists and creators, and listeners and fans.

What you'll do

• Identify security anti-patterns in our codebases and architecture and drive cross-functional initiatives to systemically address them
• Help guide our Engineering and Product teams around the safe and responsible use of agentic AI in our products and Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Drive efforts to automate the security of our SDLC, including our CI/CD pipelines
• Secure our AWS, GCP, and on-prem infrastructure through implementing proper access control and guardrails
• Conduct secure code reviews and threat modeling exercises to identify and remediate potential security vulnerabilities
• Define, implement, and oversee processes and policies in our Vulnerability Management Program
• Triage and drive to remediation submissions from our external bug bounty program
• Mentor and onboard team members

What you'll need

• 8+ years of product or application security experience, or other relevant software engineering experience
• Deep expertise in designing secure architecture
• Experience conducting threat modeling exercises and secure code reviews
• Experience configuring DevSecOps tools (e.g. SAST, SCA, Secret Scanning)
• Experience working with cloud providers (AWS, GCP) and Developer SaaS solutions (GitHub, Jira)
• Ability to effectively communicate risk to technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience with data analysis (SQL) in order to determine scope and impact of vulnerabilities

Nice to have

• Knowledge of industry-standard security frameworks and regulations, such as GDPR, CCPA, SOC2, NIS2, and OWASP
• Experience threat modelling and securing Generative AI applications in the context of the EU AI Act
• Experience with vulnerability management and data governance

What they offer

• Extensive relocation support including allowances, flights, and temporary accommodation
• Employee Equity Plan
• Generous professional development allowance
• Flexible vacation policy with up to 35 days of PTO annually
• Creativity and Wellness benefit
• Free lunches and office snacks