# Staff Security Engineer

Root is on a mission to unbreak insurance by creating experiences people love at prices they can't believe. We believe that investing in world-class technology will facilitate a new class of insurance products, driving a massive positive impact on the hundreds of millions of drivers who carry auto insurance in the US. Root's Engineering team is committed to building a flexible platform on which our product designers and quantitative scientists can quickly test ideas, deploy them into production, and iterate, with the ultimate objective of a delightful customer experience coupled with effective risk management. The Opportunity At Root, we are reimagining insurance by building a smarter, more equitable system from the ground up. As the Staff Security Engineer, you will be the technical visionary driving security strategy across our entire enterprise. You will act as a force multiplier for the Information Security and IT organizations, bridging the gap between high-level business risk and operational execution. In this role, you will define the "paved roads" for security, securing our AI adoption, and elevating our technical maturity to meet the evolving demands of our insurance busin

- **Id**: 3899314
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/root-insurance-staff-security-engineer>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T18:23:39Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T04:56:54Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5540
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Property & Casualty Insurance, InsurTech

## Company

- **Id**: 58633
- **Name**: Root Insurance
- **Domain**: joinroot.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/root-insurance>
- **Size band**: 201-500
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Rippling

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 93
- **Open postings**: 6
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.167
- **Repost share**: 0.167
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 44
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 157000
- **Max**: 196000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 196000

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Threat Modeling** — Optional: no
- **Red Teaming** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-07T00:11:53Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 44
- **Reasons**: conf:0, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 196000
- **Is top pay**: no

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