# Security Engineer at Traversal

- Company: Traversal
- What the company does: Traversal is the AI SRE that triages alerts, finds root cause, and resolves incidents at petabyte scale. Trusted by American Express, PepsiCo, and DigitalOcean. Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.traversal.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: New York
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $240K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-20
- Apply by: 2026-12-04
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/traversal/eb92071c-71b2-4281-8d31-37cc0ecc457a?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/traversal-security-engineer/

## About the role

As a Security Engineer at Traversal, your mission is to raise the security floor across the company by building AI-native security mechanisms tailored to how we work. This is not a compliance role, and it isn’t about the basics like adding SAST to pipelines. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 4-6+ years building or securing production software or infrastructure at technically rigorous companies or teams, including sensitive, mission-critical systems
- Proven ability to independently lead ambiguous, cross-team security projects from design through implementation, migration, and adoption, with minimal structure
- Strong programming skills in a language such as Python, Rust, or Go and the ability to work effectively in an existing codebase
- Hands-on depth in application security or cloud security, with working knowledge of the other, gained either in a security role or by owning security-critical systems as a software or infrastructure engineer
- Technical depth in risk assessment. Looks at standards like NIST & SOC2 as a starting point, and not necessarily the right baseline
- Practical understanding of authentication, authorization, trust boundaries, secrets, and common failure modes in distributed systems

Tags: Engineering

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