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You’ll work across product, infrastructure, and internal systems to make Variance secure by design and help us meet the bar required to deploy AI into critical workflows at the largest companies in the world.\nYou're a fit if you have:\n4+ years in security engineering, DevSecOps, application security, or cloud security roles (or equivalent experience).\nStrong hands-on experience in at least one major cloud provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and working knowledge of the others.\nExperience building or securing CI/CD pipelines and applying security controls in a developer-friendly way.\nPractical experience with SAST, SCA, DAST, and container scanning, including tuning and validation of findings.\nAbility to perform application and architecture security reviews and communicate findings clearly to engineers.\nProficiency in at least one programming language used in modern web stacks (Python, Go, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, or similar).\nWorking knowledge of Linux, networking fundamentals, identity and access management, and common web vulnerabilities (OWASP Top 10).\nStrong written communication and documentation skills.\nWhat you’ll do\nHarden our cloud infrastructure, internal systems, and product surfaces\nBuild security into how we ship: CI/CD, secrets management, access control, dependency hygiene, logging, and monitoring\nReview product and architecture decisions with a security lens, especially around APIs, auth, data access, and tenant isolation\nPartner with engineering to find and fix real vulnerabilities quickly\nHelp us design abuse-resistant, trustworthy systems for AI-powered decisioning\nImprove our security posture in ways that matter to Fortune 500 customers\nSupport customer security reviews, audits, and technical trust conversations\nCreate pragmatic security processes, documentation, and defaults that scale with the company\nPreferred background\nExperience in security engineering, application security, cloud security, or DevSecOps\nStrong fundamentals in cloud infrastructure, identity and access management, networking, and web security\nExperience securing modern product teams and development workflows\nAbility to go from finding a problem to helping implement the fix\nClear written communication and strong judgment\nFamiliarity with GCP, infrastructure as code, CI/CD systems, and common security tooling is a plus\nOur culture\nWe believe in ownership, urgency, and craft. 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