Security Engineer

The Role

This is a rare opportunity to join Warp at a pivotal moment in our growth, and become the first dedicated member of our product security function. As our first Product Security Engineer, you'll own the technical direction of product and application security at Warp—helping us build secure products, make the right security investments for enterprise customers, and respond effectively when product-security issues arise.

You'll operate as both a security expert and a product engineer. We expect roughly half of your time to involve hands-on software engineering: designing and building security features, improving security architecture, and creating systems that make it easier for every engineer at Warp to build securely.

Responsibilities

• Shape Warp's product security strategy, identifying the highest-leverage security risks and opportunities as our product and enterprise business grow.
• Design and build security-critical product capabilities, working directly in the codebase alongside product engineers.
• Make security scalable across engineering through secure-by-default architecture, reusable systems and tooling, threat modeling, and pragmatic guidance—not by becoming a gatekeeper for every change.
• Serve as Warp's product-security expert with customers, partnering with Product, Sales, and engineering leadership to understand enterprise requirements and communicate our security posture credibly.
• Lead application-security incident response, from assessing vulnerabilities and coordinating mitigations through customer communication and systemic follow-up.
• Develop Warp's approach to emerging AI and agent security risks, including areas like permissions, credentials, untrusted code execution, data boundaries, and isolation.

Must Have

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including meaningful experience in product security, application security, or software security - ideally in a fast-paced startup environment.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and the ability to personally design, build, and ship production systems. This is not primarily a security-review or advisory role.
• Deep knowledge of application-security fundamentals including authentication and authorization, data protection, vulnerability classes, threat modeling, secure architecture, and incident response.
• Strong product judgment: you can translate security risks and customer requirements into pragmatic product and engineering decisions rather than treating security as an end in itself.
• Strong organizational skills and an exceptional eye for detail; you catch things before they become problems.
• Clear, thoughtful communicator who can adjust tone for candidates, interviewers, and leadership alike.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and change - you default to figuring it out, not waiting to be told.

Nice to Have

• Experience as an early security hire or member of a small product-security team, particularly at a developer-tool or enterprise SaaS company.
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers, sales engineers, or customer security teams on security architecture and requirements.
• Experience securing AI or agentic systems, particularly around untrusted code execution, sandboxing/isolation, secrets and credentials, permissions, or access to customer data.
• Experience building security-related product features or developer-facing security systems, rather than exclusively internal security tooling.
• Experience leading response to significant application vulnerabilities or security incidents.

 

Salary Transparency

Total compensation at Warp consists of two parts: 1) a competitive base salary, and 2) meaningful equity.

 

When we find the right person, we try to put our best foot forward with an offer that excites you. The budgeted compensation range for this role is targeted at $230 to $290k. Final total compensation depends on experience and expertise.

 

In addition to salary, all employees receive further compensation in the form of equity in the company. This is a meaningful stock option grant with a four-year vesting period and one-year cliff. Your equity is where most of the significant upside potential is. Comparing startup equity is always a bit tricky, so we’re happy to walk you through different valuation scenarios at the offer stage in order to help paint a clearer picture of the upside.

 

Final total compensation is determined by multiple factors including your experience and expertise and may vary from the amounts listed above.