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Senior Security Engineer

Pave
Salt Lake, UT Full Time
POSTED ON 5/8/2025 CLOSED ON 9/28/2025

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Security Engineer position at Pave?

Why join Pave?

At Pave, our vision is simple - unlock a labor market built on trust.

How are we going to get there? By building a compensation platform powered by the largest real-time compensation dataset on earth, we give you confidence in every compensation decision.

We partner with our customers to help them build and retain world-class teams through planning, communicating, and benchmarking their team’s compensation in real time. And you don’t have to just hear it from us — you can hear it from our customers: Affirm, Airtable, Ancestry, Clio, Credit Karma, Dropbox, Hover, Hubspot, Grammarly, Ramp, Workato, and (8,500 ) more!

If playing to win, building with intellectual honesty, and focusing on the Pave platinum standard sounds like fun, we highly encourage you to reach out. We’d love to partner with you on our journey to change the world of compensation!

Security @ Pave

Security is part of everything we do at Pave. With amazing growth comes amazing engineering and security challenges. This is an opportunity to have a huge impact and run programs at a company that doesn’t need to be convinced why security is important. Our customers count on us to secure some of their most sensitive data, and that trust is central to Pave. It’s the only way we can unlock a labor market built on trust, and change the world of compensation.

What You'll Bring

  • 5 years of application security experience as part of a blue team
  • Expert knowledge of OWASP Top 10 and application security
  • Security design review experience
  • Experience in running bug bounty programs and pentesting
  • Outstanding communication and partnership skills with software engineers
  • Ideally, experience in Google Cloud Security best practices

Compensation, It's What We Do.

This salary range may include multiple levels. Your level is based on our assessment of your interview performance and experience, which you can always ask the hiring manager about to understand in more detail. Salary is just one component of Pave's total compensation package for employees. Your total rewards package at Pave will include equity, top-notch medical, dental, and vision coverage, an unlimited PTO policy, and many other region-specific benefits.

Our compensation ranges are structured into geographic tiers (1, 2, and 3) based on local market conditions and cost of living, read more about tiers here!!

Salt Lake City pay bands

$140,250—$189,750 USD

Understand our DNA

At Pave, we embrace a relentless pursuit of excellence - we're committed to being in the top tier of our industry in everything we deliver. If you're seeking standard hours and conventional challenges, this might not align with your goals. If you're eager to push boundaries and elevate your potential beyond what you thought possible, we want to hear from you!

Our Compensation Philosophy

We've built our compensation framework to recognize and reward exceptional talent while fostering authentic connections with candidates who share our vision. Our approach emphasizes pay for performance, ensuring that your growth and impact are reflected in your rewards. We continuously innovate our compensation practices to maintain efficiency and fairness over time, creating alignment between candidate aspirations and company success.

FAQ’s:

How big is Pave today?

We were founded in 2019 in San Francisco and have grown to 150 employees across the US and the UK.

Where are the Pave offices?

We’re headquartered in San Francisco’s FiDi neighborhood, with additional offices in New York City and regional hubs in Salt Lake City and the United Kingdom. We embrace a high-energy, collaborative in-person work environment at these locations, operating on a hybrid schedule that brings teams together in-office on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays.

What do employee benefits at Pave look like?

We offer comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus mental health support and wellness perks. You'll grow with our quarterly learning stipend, and enjoy daily lunch, dinner, and delicious snacks when you're in the office.

What can I expect in interviewing at Pave?

At Pave, we value intellectual honesty and transparency, and we bring this to our interview process. Throughout your time interviewing with us, we will be evaluating where you can best make an impact through multiple conversations with your recruiter, hiring manager, peers, cross-functional partners, and leadership. We also use our interviews to determine leveling, which is finalized at the end of your interview process by your hiring manager. The majority of our roles have 3-5 interview rounds. You can expect to hear back from our team within 2 days after each interview round. Once we extend an offer, we hope to hear back from you within 3 days. It is extremely important to us that we find a great mutual fit - we’re excited to get to know you!

More Questions? Check out our candidate resources page!

Pave is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or another legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request accommodation, please email recruiting@pave.com. Sponsorship for work visas or other permits may be available for certain positions, subject to Pave's policies and legal requirements.

Salary : $140,250 - $189,750

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