Peregrine
Staff Software Engineer, Product Security
$200K–$275K
San Francisco, CA +3 · Staff · Full-time · Posted Nov 25, 2025
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
New York, New York, United States
San Francisco, California, United States
Washington, District of Columbia, United States - Experience
- 8+ years in product security, application security, platform security, security-focused software engineering, or related work.
About the job
Defines Peregrine’s product-security strategy and architecture, writes security-critical code, and leads security initiatives across engineering.
What you'll do
- Own the product-security roadmap and prioritize work based on risk, customer impact, business needs, and engineering maturity.
- Define platform security architecture, especially for agent sandboxing, software supply chain security, secret management, and cloud security.
- Partner across engineering teams, write and review security-critical production code, and build secure-by-default tools and frameworks.
What they ask for
- 8+ years in product security, application security, platform security, security-focused software engineering, or related work.
- Experience designing secure architectures and establishing security standards across an engineering organization.
- Strong software-development background, including writing production Python code.
- Track record identifying and remediating meaningful software vulnerabilities; ability to work onsite in San Francisco or New York.
Nice to have
- Experience building or scaling product-security programs at a rapidly growing company.
- Experience with AWS and cloud-native security patterns, or AI/ML systems and LLM application security.
Pay
$200,000 — $275,000 USD (annual salary)
Tools
Python, Django, Celery, Airflow, Kafka, React, Redux, Mapbox
AI focus
Preferred experience includes AI/ML systems and emerging security considerations for LLM-based applications.
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