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Security at Redpanda is an engineering problem, not a checklist: you'll spend your time analyzing and breaking real systems code, building the paved roads and automation that make the secure path the default, and helping teams ship faster because security is built in rather than bolted on.\nYou'll be one of two engineers on a small, high-trust product security team, partnering every day with the engineers who build a system that Fortune 500 companies trust with their most critical data. Reporting to the Director of Information Security and working alongside our infrastructure security engineer, you'll own the day-to-day application-security work: secure SDLC, threat modeling, code-level vulnerability discovery, fuzzing the core engine, and our coordinated vulnerability disclosure and PSIRT response. As the application-security practice grows, you'll help shape its technical direction (in partnership with the Director, who owns the overall security program) and raise the security bar across all of engineering.\nYou Will:\nLead threat modeling and secure design reviews for new product features across the C++ engine, Go control plane, and Console, catching trust-boundary and authorization flaws before code is written.\n\nOwn and tune our application security testing (SAST, SCA / dependency scanning, secret scanning, and DAST) across C++, Go, and Rust, driving down false positives and gating the highest-severity findings in CI.\n\nBuild the fuzzing harnesses for the core engine (coverage-guided and protocol-aware) and partner with platform engineering to run them continuously, integrating sanitizers to surface memory-safety and parsing defects early.\n\nDrive deep secure code review in systems languages, pairing your own expertise with AI-assisted analysis, and partner with engineering to eradicate whole classes of vulnerabilities rather than patching one bug at a time.\n\nOperate our product security incident response (PSIRT) and coordinated vulnerability disclosure: triaging external researcher reports, driving fixes with engineering, and publishing advisories and CVEs.\n\nStrengthen our software supply chain (dependency hygiene, SBOMs, build provenance, and progress toward higher SLSA build levels) in partnership with platform engineering.\n\nStand up a security champions program and secure-by-default building blocks (libraries, patterns, guardrails) so engineering teams can own security with your support.\n\nDefine security requirements and help shape the security release gates, and advise on product security features: authentication, authorization / RBAC, encryption, audit logging, multi-tenant isolation, and the Agentic Data Plane.\n\nRaise the security bar across engineering through pragmatic standards, training, and hands-on partnership, using modern AI-assisted development workflows (including tools like Claude Code) to scale your impact.\n\nYou Have:\n7+ years in application or product security or adjacent specialties, with a track record of owning AppSec initiatives end-to-end and influencing engineering teams without direct authority.\n\nThe ability to review and reason about code in a systems language (C++ or Rust strongly preferred, since our core engine is C++; Go valuable across the cloud control plane and tooling), whether reviewing it directly or with AI assistance, with strong instincts for memory safety, concurrency, and the vulnerability classes that matter (use-after-free, buffer overflow, injection, authorization flaws).\n\nComfort with the security risks of memory-unsafe code and the appetite to fuzz it; fuzzing or sanitizer experience is a strong plus.\n\nPractical proficiency with the AppSec toolchain (SAST, SCA, secret scanning, DAST) and the judgment to apply risk-based prioritization rather than rigid textbook approaches.\n\nDemonstrated experience leading threat modeling and secure design reviews for non-trivial systems.\n\nWorking knowledge of software supply-chain security (dependencies, SBOMs, signing, SLSA) and secure CI/CD practices.\n\nFamiliarity with cloud (AWS / GCP / Azure) and Kubernetes security as it relates to the application layer.\n\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable working in a globally distributed, async environment (e.g., GitHub).\n\nNice to Have:\nExperience with fuzzing (libFuzzer / AFL++ / OSS-Fuzz) and sanitizers (ASan / UBSan / MSan) on a C or C++ codebase.\n\nBackground securing distributed systems, databases, or data-infrastructure products, including threat modeling consensus / replication and multi-tenant isolation.\n\nExperience running a PSIRT, operating as a CNA, or managing a bug bounty / coordinated disclosure program.\n\nExposure to compliance programs (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, FedRAMP) from the engineering-evidence side.\n\nContributions to open-source security, or experience handling vulnerabilities in a public open-source repository.\n\nU.S. base salary range for this role is $210,000 - $247,000. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. We strive to consider each candidate's job-related skills, location, experience, relevant education or training to determine individual base salary. Your talent partner will share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.\nPlease note that Redpanda uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology to assist in the screening and assessment of applications for this position. However, all final hiring decisions are made by our human hiring team.\nVacancy Status: This job posting is for an existing vacancy.\nJoin Redpanda if you’d enjoy being part of a fast-moving, diverse, people-first organization with team members around the globe and a culture based on trust, transparency, communication, and kindness. 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