Senior Product Security Engineer

About the Role

Persona builds identity verification infrastructure where security isn't a layer we add later, it's core to everything we ship. When security fails at most companies, systems go down. At an identity verification company, real people's identities are compromised.

As AI tooling expands what engineers can build and how fast they can build it, the attack surface grows with it. Someone proactively needs to own that problem.

What you'll work on

This is a product security role embedded in a generalist security team. Right now that means

• Drive the full vulnerability lifecycle and how Persona responds to external threats.
• Design and build autonomous systems and AI tooling that scale security across every team and product
• Partner with product engineers to shape how new features and systems get built securely
• Shape Persona's presence in the security research community — running the bug bounty program that powers it

Must-haves

• 6+ years of software engineering experience
• 3+ years in product security
• You've translated security risk into product decisions with non-technical stakeholders
• You've embedded security into an eng team's SDLC without becoming the team that says no to everything

Nice to have

• Familiarity with SAST/DAST tooling, dependency scanning, or bug bounty programs
• Compliance experience (SOC 2, HIPAA) in a cloud-native environment
• You've built systems where data sensitivity wasn't an afterthought — HIPAA, financial data, identity, etc.

The team

Small and senior by design. High ownership from day one — this isn't a team where your work disappears into a large org.

Based in SF. Relocation assistance available.