Senior Product Security Engineer (Contract)

Iru is an AI-powered security and IT platform that unifies identity and access, endpoint security and management, and compliance automation. The Senior Product Security Engineer will embed security into the product development lifecycle by conducting security reviews and testing, partnering with engineering teams on remediation, and helping build secure-by-design products. The role also focuses on AI security, vulnerability management, security automation, and cross-functional security support.

Responsibilities:

• Perform security design and architecture reviews for new products and features
• Conduct threat modeling for applications, APIs, and AI-enabled services
• Review application security posture throughout the SDLC
• Partner with engineering teams to prioritize and remediate vulnerabilities
• Review authentication, authorization, and access control implementations
• Perform manual web, API, thick-client, and mobile application penetration testing
• Validate findings from third-party penetration tests
• Conduct secure code reviews
• Verify remediation of security vulnerabilities
• Drive adoption of secure coding practices
• Partner with developers to improve security throughout the SDLC
• Help define Product Security standards and engineering guardrails
• Develop reusable security patterns and reference architectures
• Triage findings from SAST, DAST, SCA, container scanning, and cloud security tools
• Work with engineering teams to prioritize remediation
• Track remediation SLAs and security metrics
• Assess AI-enabled products for security risks
• Review LLM integrations and AI workflows
• Test AI applications for prompt injection, data leakage, insecure tool use, model abuse, and authorization weaknesses
• Help define secure AI engineering standards
• Improve automation of security testing throughout CI/CD
• Integrate security tooling into developer workflows
• Build scripts and tooling that reduce manual security work
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Infrastructure, Cloud Security, and Compliance teams
• Support customer security questionnaires related to product security
• Assist Sales Engineering with security discussions when needed

Requirements:

• 5+ years in Product Security or Application Security
• Strong understanding of modern application architectures
• Experience securing:
• Web applications
• APIs
• Microservices
• Cloud-native applications
• Experience performing threat modeling
• Experience conducting penetration testing
• Strong understanding of:
• OWASP Top 10
• OWASP API Top 10
• Authentication & Authorization
• OAuth / OIDC
• Secure SDLC
• Experience with SAST, DAST, SCA, and container security
• Experience partnering directly with engineering teams
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience securing AI/LLM applications
• Experience with Kubernetes and containers
• Familiarity with cloud security (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Experience with GitHub Actions or CI/CD security
• Experience using:
• Snyk
• Burp Suite Pro
• Semgrep
• Wiz
• GitHub Advanced Security
• Security certifications such as OSCP, GWAPT, GWEB, CSSLP, or CISSP are a plus