SoundCloud empowers artists and fans to connect and share through music. Founded in 2007, SoundCloud is an artist-first platform empowering artists to build and grow their careers by providing them with the most progressive tools, services, and resources. With over 400+ million tracks from 40 million artists, the future of music is SoundCloud.

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.