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Compa

Product Security Engineer

Engineering Sites- Orange County, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco (Remote)$185k–$220kfulltimemidAdded today

About this role

Compa seeks a Product Security Engineer to establish and scale security practices across their AI-powered compensation intelligence platform. As the first dedicated product security hire, you'll define secure engineering standards, build developer tooling, and provide architectural guidance to ensure enterprise-grade security as the company grows.

What you'll do

  • Conduct architecture reviews, threat modeling, and security design reviews for applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and AI systems
  • Develop security standards, reference architectures, and secure-by-default design patterns for engineering teams
  • Define and improve the Secure Software Development Lifecycle, embedding security into workflows and release processes
  • Design and build reusable security libraries, tooling, and automation to scale secure practices across engineering
  • Define secure patterns for AI-enabled products, agents, and retrieval systems; evaluate emerging AI security risks
  • Lead security assessments for new products, features, integrations, and emerging technologies

What they're looking for

  • Software engineering (5+ years, production-grade systems)
  • Application security reviews and threat modeling
  • Security architecture and design patterns
  • Cloud security and infrastructure hardening
  • Secure SDLC and developer tooling
  • AI/ML security fundamentals
  • Security automation and guardrails
  • Technical communication across audiences

Benefits

  • First dedicated product security hire; high impact and autonomy
  • Work across cutting-edge AI and compensation intelligence domains
  • Multiple office locations: Orange County, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco
  • Access to enterprise customer base (NVIDIA, Stripe, DoorDash, OpenAI, etc.)
  • Venture-backed startup environment with transparent, ownership-driven culture
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Compa

Compa builds an AI-powered compensation intelligence platform that helps major enterprises make data-driven pay decisions. The company is hiring Software Engineers to develop full-stack systems and ship features across web and backend platforms.

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Likely interview questions

  • Walk us through a complex security architecture review you've led—what were the key risks you identified and how did you communicate tradeoffs to engineering and product teams?
  • Describe your experience building or scaling secure-by-default practices. How have you balanced developer velocity with security requirements?
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