The role
Linear needs a generalist security engineer to run vulnerability management, the bug bounty and incident response. You'll work hands-on across product, GCP infrastructure and AI-assisted tooling with high autonomy.
What you'll do
- Run vulnerability management from triage through remediation
- Triage bug bounty reports and work with engineers on fixes
- Threat model features and test product security hands-on
- Lead incident investigation, containment and postmortems
- Harden GCP, k8s and Postgres and build security automation
What they're looking for
Must-haves
- 5+ years in security engineering, with depth in two core areas
- Able to read code; Linear uses a lot of TypeScript
- Comfortable in cloud environments
- Experience leading incidents from first alert to postmortem
- Clear written and verbal communication with non-technical stakeholders
Nice to have
- GCP experience
- Using AI coding and security tools to speed up work
The company
Linear
Product-development platform for 30,000+ companies
Linear makes a product development platform for teams and agents, used by more than 30,000 companies. Founded in 2019, it's a remote-first team across North America, Europe and Australia.
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