# Security Engineer at Patreon

- Company: Patreon
- What the company does: Backed by Index, NEA and CRV.
- Company website: http://patreon.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $170K to $256K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-28
- Apply by: 2026-11-12
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/patreon/95a84e99-4405-4cd1-ade4-13c17dc99293?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/patreon-security-engineer/

## About the role

In this role, you’ll be a member of our Security team. You’ll split your time between contributing to security projects and responding to security investigations, vulnerabilities, or questions. The work spans application security, infrastructure security, and internal/corporate security. It includes both proactive and reactive security work. You’ll be part of an on-call rotation and help respond to security incidents and investigations. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- You have two or more years of experience reducing security risks in the application, infrastructure, or corporate security spaces. You can create a threat model and to explain why a given risk matters and what we might do to reduce it
- You have deeper knowledge (three or more years) in at least one security or security-adjacent domain (infrastructure security, application security, cloud security, corporate/IT security, cryptography, privacy, etc.)
- You can develop software (Python, Rust, Golang, or a similar language). You have experience working in a modern software development environment (git, CI/CD, LLM coding tools, etc.)
- You have experience using AI tools (LLMs, ML models, etc) to identify and address security issues (software vulnerabilities, detection and response, etc.)
- You’re energized by fast iteration: shipping MVPs, testing hypotheses, and evolving products based on what creators and fans respond to
- You take pride in creating elegant solutions to messy, real-world problems and balancing pragmatic trade-offs between security risks and business needs

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/patreon-security-engineer/