Merge PRs faster and fix bugs before they reach production. Macroscope provides AI-powered code review, automated PR descriptions, and real-time status updates for modern development teams. Backed by Lightspeed.
About the role
We’re looking for a Senior Security Engineer to help shape and scale the security foundation of Macroscope’s platform. You’ll play a key role in designing and implementing security architecture, controls, and secure-by-default practices across the distributed systems, infrastructure, and APIs that power our core product.
What they're looking for
- Deep experience securing distributed backend systems at scale , including threat modeling and designing pragmatic defenses for real-world production environments
- Proven track record of building and scaling products , not just writing policies—able to embed security into architecture, code, and developer workflows
- Strong expertise in secure system design for resilient, performant, maintainable services and APIs (authn/authz, data protection, service-to-service security, secure defaults)
- Strong proficiency with cloud environments, ideally Google Cloud Platform (GCP) , including networking, IAM, org policies, monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or equivalent)
- Experience leading security or engineering projects and driving architectural decisions in high-growth teams, with an emphasis on being a team player who elevates others
- Hands-on experience with secrets management, key management/cryptography basics , and secure data handling (encryption in transit/at rest, least privilege, secure storage patterns)
More about this role
Macroscope is building the infrastructure for the next generation of software development, where engineers direct fleets of agents, every change is automatically reviewed and verified, and organizations have a clear understanding of how their products and codebases are evolving.
Our mission is to give engineers more leverage and leaders more clarity, so teams can build better software, faster.
Macroscope is founded by former entrepreneurs who have started and sold multiple companies, and operated as product/engineering executives at public tech companies. We're fortunate to be supported by the best VC firms and angels in the business, including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Thrive Capital, Google Ventures, and Adverb.
We’re looking for a Senior Security Engineer to help shape and scale the security foundation of Macroscope’s platform. You’ll play a key role in designing and implementing security architecture, controls, and secure-by-default practices across the distributed systems, infrastructure, and APIs that power our core product.
You’ll lead projects focused on protecting customer data, hardening our production environment, and raising the security bar across everything we...
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