Senior Security Engineer, you.com
$180-235k
AI search infrastructure for enterprises
Open for applications
AI search infrastructure for enterprises
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$180-235k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To help people move faster, think deeper, and do more.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 9+ years in security roles across disciplines such as application security, DevOps, security operations, software engineering, red teaming, incident response, security research, and AI security
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in programming languages like JavaScript, Python, and Terraform. Expertise in AWS cloud services, GitHub, Google Workspace, and Kubernetes
- Security Expertise: Hands-on experience in threat modeling, penetration testing, creating security requirements, conducting source code reviews, leading security design reviews, incident response, and securing cloud environments
- Collaboration & Ownership: Self-motivated, collaborative, and skilled at prioritizing work. A strong advocate of ownership, capable of managing problems end-to-end individually or within a team
- Security Program Management: Proven experience managing security programs with a focus on partnership and enablement
What the job involves
- The Security Engineering team at You.com is dedicated to enabling engineering teams to securely design, build, test, and maintain the software and infrastructure that powers the company’s platforms
- The team establishes a "paved road" approach, ensuring engineers can deliver secure technologies with minimal friction while maintaining a strong focus on protecting the business, earning customer trust, and fostering a culture of security, transparency, and shared responsibility
- Reporting to the Head of Security, this role will champion security across You.com, driving continuous improvement and empowering teams to build trusted, resilient services
- Act as a security subject matter expert to support engineers through design reviews, threat modeling, code reviews, patch creation, and security testing
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to architect resilient, security-first services
- Engineer and implement secure, scalable, and resilient systems
- Develop and customize high-signal security tooling through automation and plugins
- Manage day-to-day security tasks, including abuse remediation, threat research, and incident handling
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident response efforts to ensure platform and customer security
- This role is instrumental in empowering You.com’s security mission while enabling the team to deliver secure, cutting-edge technologies
Our take
The pressure for enterprises to adopt AI is mounting, but even with impressive advancements to the technology it can be difficult to implement effectively. Foundational models fail to meet the needs of enterprises, which require something they can more easily customise.
This is what you.com recognises and addresses, supplying solutions to empower its clients to build the artificial intelligence that best serves them. The company's enterprise AI product, combined with search and agent APIs and consulting, enables each business to adapt AI intelligently to its industry and aims.
Its a valuable proposition that has not gone unnoticed by the industry, with you.com raising a substantial amount of funding in 2025. This will be used to "build the infrastructure for the agentic era", as the company aims to support its clients into this next age of AI-empowered operations.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
33% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2025
$100m
SERIES C
Jun 2024
$50m
SERIES B
Total funding: $197.9m
Company benefits
- A remote-first work environment with hubs in California, NYC, and Canada that offer monthly in-person gatherings
- Unlimited PTO with 11 U.S. holidays observed and a week shutdown in December to rest and recharge
- Competitive health insurance plan, where 100% of the policyholder is covered and 75% for dependents
- 12 weeks of paid paternity leave in the US; additional time off is also considered
- 401k program, 3% match coming January 2025
- $500 work-from-home stipend to be used up to a year of your start date
- $1,200 / year Health & Wellness Allowance to support your personal goals
- In-person coworking weeks 1 to 2 times a year
- Chance to collaborate with a team at the forefront of AI research
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Richard Socher
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experience as Chief Scientist of EVP for Salesforce from 2016 to 2020. Founder of AIX ventures since 2021.
Bryan McCann
(Co-Founder & CTO)Experience as a Course Assistant at Stanford University from 2014 to 2016. Lead Research Scientist for Salesforce from 2016 to 2020.
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