Software Engineer, Product Security

Grammarly is excited to offer a remote-first hybrid working model. Team members work primarily remotely in the United States, Canada, Ukraine, Germany, or Poland. Certain roles have specific location requirements to facilitate collaboration at a particular Grammarly hub.

All roles have an in-person component: Conditions permitting, teams meet 2–4 weeks every quarter at one of Grammarly’s hubs in San Francisco, Kyiv, New York, Vancouver, and Berlin, or in a workspace in Kraków. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that fosters trust and unlocks creativity.

Grammarly team members in this role must be based in the United States or Canada, and they must be able to collaborate in person 2 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub(s) where the team is based.

The opportunity 

Grammarly is the world’s leading AI writing assistance company trusted by over 30 million people and 70,000 professional teams every day. From instantly creating a first draft to perfecting every message, Grammarly’s product offerings help people at 96% of the Fortune 500 get their point across—and get results. Grammarly has been profitable for over a decade because we’ve stayed true to our values and built an enterprise-grade product that’s secure, reliable, and helps people do their best work—without selling their data. We’re proud to be one of Inc.’s best workplaces, a Glassdoor Best Place to Work, one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies, and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in AI.

To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our Product Security team. This person will substantially impact maintaining the trust of the millions of users who rely on Grammarly product offerings daily. They will drive security improvements across the entire stack, from the UI to the back-end to the underlying server infrastructure. 

Grammarly’s engineers and researchers have the freedom to innovate and uncover breakthroughs—and, in turn, influence our product roadmap. The complexity of our technical challenges is growing rapidly as we scale our interfaces, algorithms, and infrastructure. You can hear more from our team on our technical blog.

Your impact

As a Security Engineer in Product Security, you will:

• Develop and implement security automation tools and processes to identify, evaluate, and mitigate security risks in our AI product.
• Work closely with the Product and Engineering teams to integrate reproducible security practices into the product development lifecycle.
• Automate vulnerability detection and management in an ongoing and scalable manner.
• Assist in developing, deploying, and maintaining a comprehensive security architecture.
• Educate and mentor team members on best practices in security and automation.
• Keep up-to-date with the latest security systems, standards, authentication protocols, and product offerings.
• Represent Grammarly’s security engineering team both within and outside of the company.

We’re looking for someone who

• Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
• Is inspired by our MOVE principles, which are the blueprint for how things get done at Grammarly: move fast and learn faster, obsess about creating customer value, value impact over activity, and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust.
• Is able to collaborate in person 2 weeks per quarter, traveling if necessary to the hub where the team is based.
• Has proven experience in security automation, DevSecOps, SRE, or a similar role.
• Has a strong understanding of cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigations.
• Is familiar with programming languages such as Python, Java, or Go.
• Is knowledgeable about cloud security best practices and technologies.
• Has excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to work independently and handle multiple tasks.
• Has strong communication skills and is able to explain complex security issues in understandable terms.
• Nurtures the talent in the team and raises the technical talent bar when recruiting for their team.

Support for you, professionally and personally

• Professional growth: We believe that autonomy and trust are key to empowering our team members to do their best, most innovative work in a way that aligns with their interests, tal