Principal Product Security Engineer

SoundCloud empowers artists, tastemakers and fans to connect and share through music. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is a creator-first platform helping artists build and grow their careers by providing them with the most advanced tools, services, and resources. With over 4x the music catalog of every other major streaming platform, spanning 40+ million artists across 190+ countries, SoundCloud is where emerging artists find their sound, hidden gems are discovered, and music culture is shaped in real time.   We are looking for a Principal Product Security Engineer to join our Security team!   As a Product Security Engineer, you will collaborate cross-functionally with engineering teams to identify and address potential vulnerabilities in our products and services. You will advocate and shape security best practices across SoundCloud’s Engineering, Product, and Design (“EPD”) organization. This position offers a unique opportunity to play a direct, pivotal role in safeguarding our products against emerging cyber threats to our platform, artists and creators, and listeners and fans.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify security anti-patterns in our codebases and architecture and drive cross-functional initiatives to systemically address them
• Help guide our Engineering and Product teams around the safe and responsible use of agentic AI in our products and Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Drive efforts to automate the security of our SDLC, including our CI/CD pipelines
• Secure our AWS, GCP, and on-prem infrastructure through implementing proper access control and guardrails 
• Conduct secure code reviews and threat modeling exercises to identify and remediate potential security vulnerabilities
• Define, implement, and oversee processes and policies in our Vulnerability Management Program
• Triage and drive to remediation submissions from our external bug bounty program
• Participate in our security incident response process
• Make recommendations to external teams and stakeholders about how to improve the consumer security of our platform
• Promote security best practices through educational initiatives such as CTFs and technical talks
• Improve internal tooling, processes, and documentation
• Help to define the Product Security program and team strategy
• Mentor and onboard team members

Experience and Background:

• 8+ years of product or application security experience, or other relevant software engineering experience
• Deep expertise in designing secure architecture
• Enthusiasm about collaborating with engineering and product teams to proactively address security issues in products
• Experience conducting threat modeling exercises and secure code reviews
• Experience configuring DevSecOps tools (e.g. SAST, SCA, Secret Scanning)
• Experience managing bug bounty programs
• Familiarity with languages such as Javascript, Go, Ruby, Python, or Scala
• Experience working with cloud providers (AWS, GCP) and Developer SaaS solutions (GitHub, Jira)
• Familiarity with IaC tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation
• Ability to effectively communicate risk to technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience with data analysis (SQL) in order to determine scope and impact of vulnerabilities
• Knowledge of industry-standard security frameworks and regulations, such as GDPR, CCPA, SOC2, NIS2, and OWASP is a plus
• Experience with vulnerability management is a plus
• Experience threat modelling and securing Generative AI applications & use-cases in the context of the EU AI Act is a plus 
• Experience with data governance is a plus

The salary range for this role is $190,000 - $220,000 annually. The final salary offered will be determined based on relative experience, skills, internal equity, and location. We also offer a generous total rewards program - read more about additional benefits and perks below!

About us:

• We are a multinational company with offices in the US (New York and Los Angeles), Germany (Berlin), and the UK (London)
• We provide a flexible work culture that offers the opportunity to collaborate and connect in person at our offices as well as accommodating work from home
• We are deeply committed to ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion at all levels of our organization and fostering a community where everyone’s voice, perspective and experience is respected and heard
• We believe a strong team is made by investing in employees through mentorship, workshops and enrichment opportunities

Benefits:

• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision plans, as well as mental health resources
• Robust 401k program
• Employee Equity Plan
• Generous professional development allowance
• Interested in a gym membership, photography course or book? We have a Creativity and Wellness benefit!
• Flexible vacation and public holiday policy where you can take up to 35 days of PTO annually
• 16 paid weeks for all parents (birthing and non-birthing), regardless of gender, to welcome newborns, adopted and foster children
• Various snacks, goodies, and 2 free lunches weekly when at the office

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at SoundCloud

SoundCloud is for everyone. Diversity and open expression are fundamental to our organization; they help us lead what’s next in music by understanding and empowering our creators and fans, no matter their identity. We acknowledge the challenges in the music industry, and strive to influence an inclusive culture where everyone can contribute respectfully and thrive, especially the historically marginalized communities that many of our creators, fans and SoundClouders identify with. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment at SoundCloud for everyone, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, migration background, national origin, age, disability status, or care-giver status.

At SoundCloud you can find your community or elevate your allyship by joining a Diversity Resource Group. Diversity Resource Groups are employee-organized groups focused on supporting and promoting the interests of a particular underrepresented community in order to build a more inclusive culture at SoundCloud. Anyone can join, whether you share the identity or strive to be an ally.