ngrok
Senior/Staff Security Engineer
$201K–$302K
United States · Staff · Full-time · Posted May 18, 2026
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicants must be US-based and authorized to work in the United States on a permanent, ongoing basis without current or future sponsorship; ngrok cannot provide visa sponsorship.
About the job
Build and own ngrok’s security engineering program, including automated developer guardrails, risk assessment, detection and response, and security policies for AI use.
What you'll do
- Assess security tooling, cloud posture, pipeline coverage, and risks; create a prioritized security roadmap.
- Build developer-facing security tooling and automated CI/CD checks, including secrets scanning and dependency vulnerability tracking.
- Establish AI-use guardrails and baseline detection and incident response; develop the security program and internal platform over time.
What they ask for
- Experience in security engineering shipping tooling, building automation, or owning security infrastructure.
- Strong engineering fundamentals and ability to write quality code in Go or Java, Rust, C, C++.
- Experience integrating security checks into CI/CD pipelines.
- Hands-on cloud security experience, particularly AWS (IAM, VPC, CloudTrail, GuardDuty).
Nice to have
- Experience building internal security platforms or developer-facing security tooling.
- Detection engineering or experience securing networking or developer infrastructure products.
Pay
$218,250 – $266,000 USD base salary; $200,790 – $245,410 USD base salary; $247,500 – $302,500 USD base salary; $227,700 – $278,300 USD base salary
Tools
Go, Java, Rust, C, C++, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform
AI focus
Establish policies and tooling for safe use of AI in the engineering pipeline; understand risks including prompt injection, insecure code generation, and LLM-assisted attack vectors.
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