Staff Software Engineer, Product Security
AI summary of the role
Peregrine, a public-safety data intelligence company, seeks a Staff Product Security Engineer to own product-security strategy and architecture across its platform.
What you’ll do
- Define and own the product-security roadmap, prioritizing by risk and impact.
- Define security architecture across the platform, focusing on agent sandboxing, supply chain, secret management, and cloud security.
- Partner with engineering teams to embed secure-design principles throughout the development lifecycle.
- Write and review security-critical production code.
What you’ll bring
- 8+ years in product/application/platform security or security-focused software engineering.
- Experience designing secure architectures and setting security standards.
- Strong software development background with production Python code.
- Track record of identifying and remediating vulnerabilities (research, pen testing, bug bounties, CVEs).
Technologies
Python · Django · Celery · Airflow · Kafka · React · Redux · Mapbox · PostgreSQL · Elasticsearch · Bedrock · SageMaker
About Peregrine
Peregrine integrates fragmented public-safety and government data into secure, permissioned operational intelligence and AI workflows for faster decisions in the field.
Series C · 200–500 people
Source and classification
Internal deployment & tooling · Evidence for this classification:
with our team onsite to understand the variety of use cases that Peregrine serves. Our teams tackle a range of challenges, from enabling real-time user collaboration on detailed maps to building high-scale backend architecture for ingesting billions of data points. We believe that humility and empathy are essential for building the right solutions—you will collaborate directly with our deployment team and users as we iterate to solve their problems. Perseverance and creativity are crucial to executing our vision. Role We are looking for a Staff Product Security Engineer to help define how security is built into Peregrine’s platform and engineering practices. Peregrine stores and processes highly sensitive customer data, making security fundamental to every stage of our product lifecycle. In this role, you will own critical parts of our product-security strategy and architecture
More from the job description
Backed by leading Silicon Valley investors, Peregrine helps public safety organizations, state and local and governments, federal agencies, and private-sector institutions address society’s challenges with unprecedented speed and accuracy. Our AI-enabled platform turns siloed and disconnected data into operational intelligence — instantly surfacing mission-critical information to empower better, faster decisions that improve outcomes at every touchpoint. Today Peregrine supports hundreds of customers across 30+ states and two countries, serving more than 125 million people — and we’re amplifying our impact as we expand into the enterprise and internationally. Our Team As an engineering team, we believe strongly that empathy improves our solutions. Seeing how people use the product is a priority and the way we get to the right answer. Engineers will have the opportunity to work closely with our team onsite to understand the variety of use cases that Peregrine serves. Our teams tackle a range of challenges, from enabling real-time user collaboration on detailed maps to building high-scale backend architecture for ingesting billions of data points. We believe that humility and empathy are essential for building the right solutions—you will collaborate directly with our deployment team and users as we iterate to solve their problems. Perseverance and creativity are crucial to e [... source excerpt omitted ...] ing for a Staff Product Security Engineer to help define how security is built into Peregrine’s platform and engineering practices. Peregrine stores and processes highly sensitive customer data, making security fundamental to every stage of our product lifecycle. In this role, you will own critical parts of our product-security strategy and architecture while driving high-leverage initiatives across the engineering organization. You will balance hands-on technical work—including writing and reviewing security-critical code—with cross-functional leadership, risk-based prioritization, and mentorship. You will have broad ownership across our stack and help establish secure-by-defa [... source excerpt omitted ...] ker; and an underlying infrastructure powered by AWS, Pulumi, and Kubernetes. What You’ll Do Define and own the product-security roadmap, prioritizing initiatives based on risk, customer impact, business needs, and engineering maturity. Define security architecture across the platform, with particular focus on agent sandboxing, software supply chain security, secret management and cloud security. Partner with Product Engineering, Infrastructure, Platform, and other teams to incorporate secure-design principles throughout the development lifecycle. Write and review security-critical production code across key parts of the product. Build secure-by-default libraries, framework
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