Senior or Staff Product Security Engineer
About the role
Skylight is a technology startup building the OS of the family. We make Skylight Calendar, the smart calendar loved by millions of families (plus Wired and the Wirecutter). Our latest product is Calendar 2, which just launched to rave reviews.
Our mission is to connect loved ones by creating the world’s simplest products and services that improve family life. Our founders are former venture capitalists and serial entrepreneurs who have scaled this business to $300M+ in annual revenue while being completely bootstrapped and profitable. We get to grow a happy, healthy company focused on making products our customers love without investors breathing down our necks.
Smart, hardworking people who care about making actually meaningful products love working here. People like you. We’re busy inventing new ways to simplify family life and help parents raise great kids – and we need your help! Come invent something new with us.
The Role
You'll own the day-to-day execution of our product security program across our cloud backend, mobile apps, and Android platform. You'll triage and drive remediation of vulnerabilities, run our bug bounty program, maintain and extend our AI-powered security scanning, and partner with product and engineering teams on design reviews before new features ship. When a team can't spare the time, you'll ship the fix yourself.
You'll work closely with the Head of Security, who owns strategy and the product security roadmap, and you'll be the person engineering teams turn to for hands-on security expertise.
What you'll do
- Own the vulnerability management pipeline end to end: intake, triage, prioritization, and driving fixes to closure against defined remediation SLAs across Backend, Mobile, and Android teams.
- Join our Platform pod where, with the team, you’ll write and ship security fixes directly in our codebases.
- Own and evolve our AI security scanning and verification pipeline. Tune it to reduce false positives, extend coverage to new repositories, and integrate it into CI.
- Run our HackerOne bug bounty program: triage reports, validate findings, work with researchers, decide on payouts, and manage the vendor relationship.
- Manage third-party penetration testing engagements from scoping through remediation.
- Lead security design reviews and threat modeling for new features and products, including AI/LLM-powered features and products that handle children's data.
- Review and advise on device and firmware security work led by our firmware team.
- Provide metrics and data on findings, remediation, and SLA adherence to support compliance and leadership reporting.
- Serve as a subject matter expert during product security incidents.