Staff Engineer, Security Engineering Partners

About the job

We are actively recruiting for this role to fill an existing vacancy. This position is needed to bridge the gap between our security organization and engineering teams by partnering on the implementation of robust security measures at scale, up-leveling existing security capabilities and critical security risk reduction.

Responsibilities

In this role, you'll:

• Design and ship scalable security solutions.
• Build relationships with engineering to foster cooperative partnerships across key Twilio products and platforms.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to integrate scalable security capabilities.
• Use metrics and data on the state of security at the product level, to drive accountability and action.
• Drive security risk reduction through technical leadership and influence of engineering roadmaps.
• Lead security reviews for critical features, new initiatives and infrastructure changes.
• Cultivate security expertise across engineering teams through mentorship, technical guidance and training.

Qualifications

Required:

• 8+ years of experience in security engineering with a proven track record of designing and implementing scalable security solutions.
• Deep technical expertise in any of these specialized security domains - application security, cloud security, product security.
• Experience with Threat Modeling methodologies and leading security design reviews.
• Experience leveraging LLMs in security solutions.
• Ability to translate emerging security threats and trends into actionable engineering requirements and technical roadmaps.
• A strong background in software development with specialized expertise in security engineering.
• Proficiency in Python is required. Proficiency in additional programming languages like Go and Java is a plus.
• Experience driving software delivery utilizing robust CI/CD processes.
• Experience leveraging best-in-class development productivity practices including AI tooling.
• Proven track record leading cross-functional security initiatives where you influenced security outcomes outside of the security organization.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.