Senior Security Engineer

Confirmed live in the last 24 hours

You.com

Compensation

$180,000 - $235,000/year

San Francisco (Hybrid)

Hybrid

Posted April 1, 2026

Job Description

About Us

At You.com, we are building the AI Search Infrastructure that powers modern AI systems. Our goal is to create the trusted knowledge layer that agents, applications, and enterprises rely on to retrieve real-time, accurate, and citation-backed information.

Our platform combines proprietary vertical indexes with LLM-optimized retrieval systems to power AI agents, applications, and enterprise workflows. We are solving hard problems across search, large language models, and large-scale infrastructure to make AI systems more reliable, transparent, and useful.

Our team includes engineers, researchers, product builders, and operators who care about solving meaningful problems and delivering real-world impact. Whether you are improving core infrastructure, shaping product experiences, or helping bring new AI capabilities to market, your work will help define how modern AI finds and uses knowledge.

About the Role

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.

Responsibilities

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.

Qualifications

- 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.

This role is instrumental in empowering You.com’s security mission while enabling the team to deliver secure, cutting-edge technologies.

Our salary bands are structured based on a combination of geographic tiers and internal leveling. Compensation is determined by multiple factors assessed during the interview process, with the final offer reflecting these considerations.

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