Principal Security Partner Engineer

Gusto is seeking a Principal Security Partner Engineer to join their Product Security group. This role is crucial in designing products and features with customer safety and privacy in mind. The ideal candidate will work closely with product and engineering leads, providing guidance on security risks, mitigation strategies, and secure development architecture.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product, engineering, infrastructure, legal, and privacy teams to design safe features
• Review and threat model new systems, products, and features
• Provide detailed security advice and risk assessments, including architectural direction
• Develop guidelines and recommendations for secure coding practices
• Lead and manage secure code training instruction
• Implement and deploy application security tools
• Develop long-term relationships with product development and engineering teams

Requirements:

• 12+ years of experience in information security, especially application security, product security, and/or security partnership
• Ability to balance security risks, customer privacy, and business requirements
• Experience building software (Ruby, JavaScript, Python, and Kotlin preferred)

Gusto offers a competitive compensation package, with a cash compensation range of $265,000/yr to $295,000/yr for this role in the San Francisco Bay Area, plus additional stock equity. The company has a hybrid work model, expecting employees to work from the office 2-3 days per week.

Gusto is committed to diversity and inclusion, hiring great people from various backgrounds to create a stronger company. They offer a comprehensive benefits package and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.