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Senior Security Engineer - AppSec

paveakatroveinformationtechnologies
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 11/23/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/22/2026

Who We Are

At Pave, we're building the industry’s leading compensation platform, combining the world's largest real-time compensation dataset with deep expertise in AI and machine learning. Our platform is perfecting the art and science of pay to give 8,500 companies unparalleled confidence in every compensation decision.

Top tier companies like OpenAI, McDonald’s, Instacart, Atlassian, Synopsys, Stripe, Databricks, and Waymo use Pave, transforming every pay decision into a competitive advantage. $190 billion in total compensation spend is managed in our workflows, and 58% of Forbes AI 50 use Pave to benchmark compensation.

The future of pay is real-time & predictive, and we’re making it happen right now. We’ve raised $160M in funding from leading investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Y Combinator, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Craft Ventures.

Research & Design Org

Pave's R&D pillar includes our data science, engineering, information technology, product design, product management, and security teams. This organization builds, maintains, and secures a platform used by more than 8,500 client organizations.

Our engineering team moves between ideation, scoping, and execution in a matter of days while closely iterating with cross-functional partners on requirements. At Pave, we use TypeScript, Node.js, and React, hosted on GCP. 

Compensation strategy is broken down into 3 pillars - compensation bands, planning workflows, and total rewards communication. We build products that make these processes seamless for customers.

Over the next year, our roadmap is focused on enhancing the entire compensation lifecycle: from philosophy definition to market trend analysis, band adjustments, merit cycles, and employee communication. We're seeking passionate engineers who are excited about building robust, data-rich systems that simplify complex compensation processes at scale.

Security Team @ 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.

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. 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. This salary range may include multiple levels. 

The targeted cash compensation for this position is:

$205,700 - $278,300

Life @ Pave 

Since being founded in 2019, Pave has established a robust global footprint. Headquartered in San Francisco's Financial District, we operate strategic regional hubs across New York City's Flatiron District, Salt Lake City, and the United Kingdom. We cultivate a vibrant, collaborative workplace culture through our hybrid model, bringing teams together in-person on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays to foster innovation and strengthen professional relationships

Benefits @ Pave

At Pave, career advancement drives everything—roles expand, responsibilities deepen, and compensation rises alongside your professional growth.

What we provide

  • Complete Health Coverage: Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision coverage for you and your family, with plenty of options to suit your needs 
  • Time off & Flexibility: Flexible PTO and the ability to work from anywhere in the world for a month 
  • Meals & Snacks: Lunch & dinner stipends as well as fully stocked kitchens to fuel you
  • Professional Development: Quarterly education stipend to continuously grow
  • Family Support: Robust parental leave to bond with your new family
  • Commuter Assistance: A commuter stipend to help you collaborate in person 

 

Vision - Our vision is to unlock a labor market built on trust

Mission - Our team's mission is to build confidence in every compensation decision

Are you ready to help our customers make smarter, more effective compensation decisions?

Salary : $58 - $190

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