# Staff Security Engineer at Redpanda

- Company: Redpanda
- What the company does: Redpanda powers an Agentic Data Plane and Data Streaming platform for real-time performance, AI innovation, and simplified operations. Backed by Lightspeed and GV.
- Company website: https://redpanda.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: US - Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $210K to $247K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/redpanda-data/afc6e927-b36a-42e3-afd1-9ae641f566cf
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/redpanda-staff-security-engineer/

## About the role

We're looking for an experienced Staff Security Engineer to own and scale application security across Redpanda's products, from the C++ core streaming engine to our Go cloud control plane, Console, and Rust/Go data-transform SDKs.

## What they're looking for

- 7+ years in application or product security or adjacent specialties, with a track record of owning AppSec initiatives end-to-end and influencing engineering teams without direct authority
- Comfort with the security risks of memory-unsafe code and the appetite to fuzz it, fuzzing or sanitizer experience is a strong plus
- Practical proficiency with the AppSec toolchain (SAST, SCA, secret scanning, DAST) and the judgment to apply risk-based prioritization rather than rigid textbook approaches
- Demonstrated experience leading threat modeling and secure design reviews for non-trivial systems
- Working knowledge of software supply-chain security (dependencies, SBOMs, signing, SLSA) and secure CI/CD practices
- Familiarity with cloud (AWS / GCP / Azure) and Kubernetes security as it relates to the application layer

Tags: Engineering