Posted by employer 5 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 5 months ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
Requirements
- Experience
- 8+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Staff Product Security Engineer at Reddit focuses on integrating security into the development process, ensuring that vulnerabilities are addressed before reaching production. This role requires expertise in languages like Go, Python, or JavaScript, along with a strong background in building secure frameworks and developer-facing platforms. Ideal candidates will have over eight years of experience in software or application security, with a proven ability to mentor and elevate technical standards within teams. Reddit's fast-paced environment, particularly with the rise of AI-assisted development, makes this position critical for maintaining robust security practices.
Joblaze insights
- Listed about 5 months ago — first seen on Joblaze April 30, 2026. Last confirmed on Reddit's careers page October 8, 2026.
- Salary band is above the typical range for Security roles (median ~$170,000).
- Starts above 58% of 43 comparable staff security roles in United States that list Python we track (median $203,000 across 27 companies). See Python salary trends
- Python appears in 45% of 109 comparable staff security roles in United States; Bug Bounty appears in 0.9% of 109 comparable staff security roles in United States.
Quick facts
- Is the Staff Product Security Engineer role remote?
- Yes — Reddit lists this as a fully remote position.
- What's the salary range?
- Reddit lists $217,000–$303,900 for this role.
- How much experience is required?
- At least 8 years of relevant experience for this Staff Product Security Engineer role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Bug Bounty, CI/CD, Go, JavaScript, Python.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Reddit targets staff-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Staff Product Security Engineer role at Reddit.
From the original posting
About the Role
Reddit is a community of communities. It’s built on shared interests, passion, and trust and is home to the most open and authentic conversations on the internet. Every day, Reddit users submit, vote, and comment on the topics they care most about. With 100,000+ active communities and approximately 97M+ daily active unique visitors, Reddit is one of the internet’s largest sources of information. For more information, visit redditinc.com.
Reddit is hiring a Staff Product Security Engineer to make the secure path the easiest path for engineers and AI agents. You'll lead the design and delivery of secure frameworks, paved paths, and workflow-native controls that eliminate recurring vulnerability classes before they reach production. As AI-assisted development accelerates code velocity faster than manual review can absorb, this role exists to close that gap structurally — through guardrails, automation, and platform-level prevention that scale with the engineering org.
What You'll Do
- Build and evolve secure frameworks, guardrails, and library-level controls that make common vulnerability classes harder to introduce.
- Design security controls for AI-assisted development — including reusable rule packs and skills that shape how engineers and coding agents generate, review, and ship code.
- Embed security into the workflows engineers already use.
- Drive product security reviews for new launches and major architectural changes.
- Identify and eliminate systemic security debt.
- Shape strategy, influence architecture, and drive execution across teams.
What We're Looking For
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, product security, or application security, with at least 2 years operating at a staff level of scope and impact.
- Proficiency in one or more languages (Go, Python, JS/TS).
- Experience designing, building, and operating production-quality systems and developer-facing platforms.
- Experience building secure frameworks, libraries, or guardrails that improve security across many teams at once.
- Demonstrated ability to integrate security into developer workflows: CI/CD, code review, release processes, and internal platforms.
- Clear communicator who can explain technical detail and business impact to both engineers and leadership.
- Comfortable in fast-moving environments where AI-assisted development is reshaping how software is built and reviewed.
- Experience with vulnerability discovery and remediation pipelines, including bug bounty or researcher-reported findings.
- Track record of mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar across a security or platform engineering org.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience securing AI/LLM systems, agentic workflows, or AI-assisted development tooling.
- Familiarity with authentication/authorization systems, cloud-native platforms, and how to secure them.
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