What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Engineer, Security Engineering position at Opendoor?
Team: IT, Security, and Corporate Engineering
Location: Seattle, Washington
About The Role
At Opendoor our goal is to build the biggest, most trusted housing platform and set a new standard for how people move. We've combined our deep, proprietary data and operational expertise with the power of artificial intelligence to make online home selling and buying radically simple.
Our Security Engineering team is building intelligent systems that protect Opendoor and our customers while enabling unprecedented engineering velocity. We apply software engineering and AI to solve security problems across product, infrastructure, and operations by building guardrails where they matter, not gates where they don't.
What You'll Do
The base pay range for this position in Seattle is $214,000 - $294,000 USD annually and in Toronto it is $177,000-243,000 CAD, plus RSUs and bonuses. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on your qualifications, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. We also offer a comprehensive package of benefits including unlimited PTO, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees.
At Opendoor our mission is to tilt the world in favor of homeowners and those who aim to become one. Homeownership matters. It's how people build wealth, stability, and community. It's how families put down roots, how neighborhoods strengthen, how the future gets built. We're building the modern system of homeownership giving people the freedom to buy and sell on their own terms. We’ve built an end-to-end online experience that has already helped thousands of people and we’re just getting started.
Location: Seattle, Washington
About The Role
At Opendoor our goal is to build the biggest, most trusted housing platform and set a new standard for how people move. We've combined our deep, proprietary data and operational expertise with the power of artificial intelligence to make online home selling and buying radically simple.
Our Security Engineering team is building intelligent systems that protect Opendoor and our customers while enabling unprecedented engineering velocity. We apply software engineering and AI to solve security problems across product, infrastructure, and operations by building guardrails where they matter, not gates where they don't.
What You'll Do
- Build systems and AI agents that harden infrastructure, protect sensitive data, and facilitate safe transactions for home acquisition, resale, mortgage, title, and escrow.
- Design workflows and CI/CD pipelines that enable engineers and non-engineers alike to design, build, and ship safely.
- Set new standards and security patterns for AI maximalist engineering and operations.
- Apply deep expertise in threat modeling and risk management to understand and enable complex business operations.
- Mentor engineers and colleagues in security, software engineering, and AI.
- Languages: Python, Go, Ruby, Terraform
- Corporate Platforms: Okta, AWS, Google Workspace, Slack, Jamf, CrowdStrike
- Engineering: AWS, GitHub, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- AI Tools: Claude, OpenAI, agent frameworks, workflow automation
- Deep conviction that AI and automation should eliminate manual work humans shouldn't be doing anyway. You're excited to replace developer toil and reactive firefighting with automated systems and guardrails.
- Business enablement security mindset - measuring security success by business impact, which means informed risk taking.
- 8 years of software engineering experience with strong skills in Python, Go, or similar languages.
- Expertise in cloud security architecture, Kubernetes, container orchestration, and identity management.
- Humility and genuine curiosity—you're as excited to learn and enable the business and your colleagues as you are to utilize cutting edge tools and techniques in security and AI.
- Incident response training and experience.
- M.S. in Computer Science or security-focused graduate work.
The base pay range for this position in Seattle is $214,000 - $294,000 USD annually and in Toronto it is $177,000-243,000 CAD, plus RSUs and bonuses. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on your qualifications, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. We also offer a comprehensive package of benefits including unlimited PTO, medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, and 401(k) to eligible employees.
At Opendoor our mission is to tilt the world in favor of homeowners and those who aim to become one. Homeownership matters. It's how people build wealth, stability, and community. It's how families put down roots, how neighborhoods strengthen, how the future gets built. We're building the modern system of homeownership giving people the freedom to buy and sell on their own terms. We’ve built an end-to-end online experience that has already helped thousands of people and we’re just getting started.
Salary : $214,000 - $294,000