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Staff Security Engineer, Product Security
AttentiveUnited States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 10 Sept 2025
💰 $250,000/yr($170,000/yr – $250,000/yr)
About the role
Attentive® is the AI-powered mobile marketing platform transforming the way brands personalize consumer engagement. Attentive enables marketers to craft tailored journeys for every subscriber, driving higher recurring revenue and maximizing campaign performance. Activating real-time data from multiple channels and advanced AI, the platform personalizes content, tone, and timing to deliver 1:1 messages that truly resonate.
With a top-rated customer success team recognized on G2, Attentive partners with marketers to provide strategic guidance and optimize SMS and email campaigns. Trusted by leading global brands like Neiman Marcus, Samsung, Wayfair, and Dyson, Attentive ensures enterprise-grade compliance and deliverability, supporting trillions of interactions across more than 70 industries. To learn more or request a demo, visit www.attentive.com or follow us on LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter), or Instagram.
Attentive’s growth has been recognized by Deloitte’s Fast 500, Linkedin’s Top Startups and Forbes Cloud 100 all thanks to the hard work from our global employees!
About the RoleWe are looking for an experienced and versatile security engineer who brings both technical acumen and a developer mindset to their work. Our ideal candidate is motivated by helping to reduce risk while enabling the business to move quickly and safely. You will be a key member of the Security Engineering team, which carries the responsibility for the security of Attentive’s platform (we work in AWS) and customer-facing products (we build microservices primarily in Java). Practically, this spans a broad gamut of building and/or operating tools to secure our code and underlying systems from development to delivery, to detect and respond to abnormal behaviors, and to provide security testing and guidance to colleagues as they architect new systems and features.
As part of this team and in this role, you will lead our product and application security program, serving as the key player in our organization for guidance and action on making our product more secure for our clients. You’ll find yourself working with a group of other talented security professionals of various backgrounds with a shared goal to shape the future of Attentive’s security program and provide a positive impact for the company and its customers.
ApproachAt Attentive, we believe interacting with our security team and security controls should feel delightful and straightforward. Thus, the person in this role needs:- A creative and solution-oriented attitude. You’ll leverage this when finding solutions that work for all stakeholders.- The patience to fully understand developer teams’ processes and goals. You’ll need this so you can implement thoughtful, complementary security solutions.- The ability to build automation into security processes. You’ll need this to reduce the security burden on our partner teams and support extremely rapid growth across the company.
With a top-rated customer success team recognized on G2, Attentive partners with marketers to provide strategic guidance and optimize SMS and email campaigns. Trusted by leading global brands like Neiman Marcus, Samsung, Wayfair, and Dyson, Attentive ensures enterprise-grade compliance and deliverability, supporting trillions of interactions across more than 70 industries. To learn more or request a demo, visit www.attentive.com or follow us on LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter), or Instagram.
Attentive’s growth has been recognized by Deloitte’s Fast 500, Linkedin’s Top Startups and Forbes Cloud 100 all thanks to the hard work from our global employees!
About the RoleWe are looking for an experienced and versatile security engineer who brings both technical acumen and a developer mindset to their work. Our ideal candidate is motivated by helping to reduce risk while enabling the business to move quickly and safely. You will be a key member of the Security Engineering team, which carries the responsibility for the security of Attentive’s platform (we work in AWS) and customer-facing products (we build microservices primarily in Java). Practically, this spans a broad gamut of building and/or operating tools to secure our code and underlying systems from development to delivery, to detect and respond to abnormal behaviors, and to provide security testing and guidance to colleagues as they architect new systems and features.
As part of this team and in this role, you will lead our product and application security program, serving as the key player in our organization for guidance and action on making our product more secure for our clients. You’ll find yourself working with a group of other talented security professionals of various backgrounds with a shared goal to shape the future of Attentive’s security program and provide a positive impact for the company and its customers.
ApproachAt Attentive, we believe interacting with our security team and security controls should feel delightful and straightforward. Thus, the person in this role needs:- A creative and solution-oriented attitude. You’ll leverage this when finding solutions that work for all stakeholders.- The patience to fully understand developer teams’ processes and goals. You’ll need this so you can implement thoughtful, complementary security solutions.- The ability to build automation into security processes. You’ll need this to reduce the security burden on our partner teams and support extremely rapid growth across the company.
What You'll Accomplish
- Architecture Design & Code Reviews: Perform secure design reviews, testing and code reviews of new systems and product features. Look for common security flaws such as injection attacks, cross-site scripting (XSS), and insecure configurations
- Automation & Tooling: Design, develop, implement and maintain tools to secure our code and underlying systems from development to delivery. This includes code scanning, dependency management, security testing, and CI/CD pipeline integration
- Engineering Support: Provide hands-on support to engineers to deploy security solutions, integrate security processes, harden services and remediate vulnerabilities - including encryption, authentication, authorization and input validation
- Threat Modeling: Lead the development of comprehensive threat models for new and existing products and infrastructure to identify, assess, and mitigate security risks
- Vulnerability Management: Establish and manage a vulnerability management lifecycle for our applications, ensuring timely detection, reporting, and remediation of security vulnerabilities
- Security Guidance: Establish secure coding pract
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