--- title: 'Product Security Engineer at LaunchDarkly' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/product-security-engineer-launchdarkly-united-states-tcwtjhkmff70' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-18' --- # Product Security Engineer at LaunchDarkly - **Company:** LaunchDarkly - **Location:** United States - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-09-17 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-18 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/launchdarkly/jobs/7998757003 ## Job description About the Job: LaunchDarkly's Product Security team is hiring a Product Security Engineer II to strengthen how we secure the platform engineers build with every day. You'll bring depth in security fundamentals and program design as a member of a small, high-leverage team with strong engineering instincts. LaunchDarkly is critical infrastructure. Our security team keeps it safe for the global systems that depend on us. You'll spend most of your time on threat modeling and cloud security posture, with rotating exposure to the rest of the ProdSec surface area. Your work will help developers move fast without sacrificing security, through automation, guidance, and the kind of partnership that makes the secure path the easy one. You'll report to the Director of Security and work closely with software engineers, product managers, and other security engineers. We expect you to bring a sharp point of view on where AI can take work off the team's plate and make our coverage deeper. Responsibilities: - Lead threat modeling engagements on the features and services where the risk warrants it. - Partner with the ProdSec lead to evolve the practice from on-request to repeatable, with clear criteria for when an engagement is worth running. - Own day-to-day triage of CNAPP findings end to end. Investigate, prioritize, route to service owners, and close the loop. Look for patterns that point to systemic fixes instead of one-off cleanup. - Contribute to SDLC tooling, SAST/SCA workflows, and bug bounty triage as the team's work demands. - Partner with product engineering teams as a trusted reviewer. Catch issues early, explain the why, propose paths forward. Say no when needed, with reasons and alternatives. - Bring AI to the work. Use it to accelerate triage, summarize findings, draft threat models, scan code, and reduce toil. Help the team build durable patterns for safe and effective use, not one-off prompts. - Push the security floor up over time through documentation, office hours, small tooling improvements, and the kind of compounding work that prevents incidents rather than responds to them. About You: - You're proactive by default. You'd rather spot drift early and fix the cause than chase symptoms after an incident. - You believe security is a craft of habits and systems. Small consistent improvements beat heroic one-offs. - You invest in relationships with the engineering, product, and leadership teams you work with. - You know security work moves at the speed of trust. - You're a good partner. You're helpful and direct, you say no with reasons and alternatives, and you don't mistake gatekeeping for rigor. - You're security-first by background but engineering-curious by nature. You want to understand how the systems work, not just what's wrong with them. - You treat AI as part of the toolkit. You're skeptical where you should be, aggressive where it pays off, and you want to work somewhere that's serious about both. Qualifications: - 2 to 4 years of full-time experience in a security-focused role. AppSec, ProdSec, or cloud security preferred. - Comfortable reading and critiquing pull requests in a modern stack. You don't need to ship production services, but you should follow the code, ask sharp questions, and write small tools when it helps. - Experience participating in or leading threat modeling exercises. Familiar with at least one structured approach (STRIDE, attack trees, or equivalent). - Working knowledge of cloud security posture. Exposure to a CNAPP is a strong plus. - Strong fundamentals: OWASP Top 10, authentication and authorization patterns, secrets management, common cloud misconfigurations. - Hands-on experience applying AI tooling to security or engineering work. You can point to specific examples where it changed how you operated. Nice to Haves: - Experience with developer tools, SaaS platforms, or feature management - Bug bounty triage experience (HackerOne, Bugcrowd) - Familiarity with Go, Python, or TypeScript - Contributions to internal security tooling or open-source security projects Pay: Target pay ranges based on Geographic Zones* for Level 2: - Zone 1: San Francisco/Bay Area or NYC Metropolitan Area, Boston, Seattle - $136,500 - $187,660* - Zone 2: Irvine, LA, Monterey, Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa, Austin, Portland, Philadelphia, Chicago - $122,800 - $168,850** - Zone 3: All other US locations - $116,000 - $159,500 ** LaunchDarkly operates from a place of high trust and transparency; we are happy to state the pay range for our open roles to best align with your needs. Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location. *Within the United States, our geographic pay zones are defined by counties surrounding major metropolitan areas. **Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), health, vision, and dental insurance, and mental health benefits in addition to salary. About LaunchDarkly: Modern software delivery was supposed to be the foundation for a thriving digital business but reality has proven otherwise. Slow, inefficient development cycles, costly outages, and fragmented customer experiences are preventing developers from building their best software. The LaunchDarkly platform helps developers innovate on new features faster while protecting them with a safety valve to instantly rewind when things go wrong. Developers can target product experiences to any customer segment and maximize the business impact of every feature. And by gradually rolling out new application components, they escape nightmare "big-bang" technology migrations. The LaunchDarkly platform was built to guide engineers to the next frontier of DevOps by: - Improving the velocity and stability of software releases, without the fear of end customer outages - Delivering targeted experiences by easily personalizing features to customer cohorts - Maximizing the business impact of every feature through the ability to experiment and optimize - Coordinating the release and optimization of software to provide consistent experiences across mobile platforms and device types - Improving the effectiveness and productivity of engineering teams, by providing insights into engineering cadence and stability At LaunchDarkly, we believe in the power of teams. We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. LD invites any applicant to review our written Affirmative Action Plan. To do so, contact People Ops at hr@launchdarkly.com. Do you need a disability accommodation? Fill out this [accommodations request form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdYb_7upYMtdRVXzvXGHGfQw0pU2FNma-6Rwp-I6NjKm7SYNw/viewform) and someone from our People Operations team will contact you for assistance. Your safety matters to us. To protect yourself from potential scams, LaunchDarkly recruiters will only contact you from [@LaunchDarkly](https://launchdarkly.slack.com/team/UKEE4GBS6).com email addresses or via LinkedIn from "Verified Recruiter" accounts. Be cautious of emails from other domains.  Legitimate LaunchDarkly recruiters will never ask for money, fees, or banking information before making a job offer. LaunchDarkly will never make a job offer without conducting a formal interview process. Our interview process does not involve asking detailed questions by email. If you are ever unsure about a communication that you receive, don't click any links—visit [Careers | LaunchDarkly](https://launchdarkly.com/careers/)  directly for confirmed job openings and links to apply. Please notify us of any fraudulent representation by sending an email to careers@launchdarkly.com. ## About LaunchDarkly ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: LaunchDarkly provides a runtime control layer for AI-era software development, enabling teams to release features safely, experiment in production, and govern AI agents. - **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed, Series D+) with investors including Redpoint, Threshold Ventures, and Benchmark. - **Headquarters**: Oakland, California, USA (with additional offices in London, UK; Bangalore and Mumbai, India) - **Founded**: 2014 - **Founders**: Edith Harbaugh (CEO/Executive Chair) and John Kodumal (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Feature management / software tooling / developer infrastructure - **Target customers**: B2B, serving both large enterprises (25% of Fortune 500) and small startups; teams in engineering, product, marketing, and business operations. - **Mission or purpose**: “Making software releases boring since 2014” and “creating a world in which every AI-powered release is safe and unceremonious.” ## Products & Services - **Feature Flags (CodeControl)**: Wrap new or risky code in flags to enable progressive rollouts, automated rollbacks, and instant remediation — without redeploying. - **Experimentation (A/B/n testing, multi-armed bandits)**: Run online experiments on code and agents to optimize performance based on real-world results. - **Observability (Guardian Monitoring, Error Monitoring, Logs & Traces, Session Replay)**: Monitor feature behavior and auto-remediate issues. - **AgentControl**: Govern, observe, and steer AI agents in production — including adaptive triggers, progressive rollouts, agent observability, custom judges, and LLM playground. - **AI Insights & Prompt Management**: Test prompts/models in production, dynamically route traffic to best options, and manage prompt snippets. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (last reported Series D in 2021 was at a ~$3 billion valuation per industry sources; not confirmed in provided materials) - **Key Metric**: Total Funding – not disclosed in provided sources. Annual Revenue – not publicly available. Proxy: 5,500+ customers, 45 trillion feature flags evaluated daily. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Board members include Scott Raney (Redpoint), Josh Stein (Threshold Ventures), and Jonathan Heiliger (Benchmark); listed on Forbes Cloud 100 for six consecutive years. - **Growth Signals**: >570 employees and growing; 25% of Fortune 500 are customers; expansion into AI agent control (AgentControl product); remote-first hiring globally. ## Competitive Advantages - **#1 in Feature Management** for three years running (as claimed on website). - **Massive scale**: 45 trillion feature flags evaluated daily, providing unmatched performance and reliability. - **Integrated platform** combining feature flags, experimentation, observability, and AI agent governance in one runtime control layer — reducing tool sprawl. - **Strong brand trust** among 5,500+ customers, including many Fortune 500 enterprises. ## Strategic Focus - **Lead the AI transformation**: Apply runtime control principles to AI agents and LLM-powered features (AgentControl, LLM Playground, custom judges). - **Enable self-healing systems**: Automatically detect and remediate failing code or misbehaving agents without human intervention. - **Continue expanding experimentation** and observability capabilities to help teams continuously optimize. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: “Humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind” – as stated on the careers page. Equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. - **Remote/hybrid policy**: Many engineering roles are fully remote (US, India, other locations). Some roles like IT are hybrid in Oakland or Bangalore/Mumbai. - **Work environment**: High-growth (570+ employees) with significant investment in engineering (multiple engineering teams: Core, Measure, Release, AI, etc.). - **Notable perks**: Pay transparency policy (disclosure of compensation upon request), commitment to diversity, and formal accommodation process. The company is a federal contractor, so it adheres to strict non-discrimination and pay disclosure rules. - **Engineering focus**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge problems in feature management, experimentation, and AI governance at massive scale. ## Sources 1. [LaunchDarkly Website](https://launchdarkly.com/) – Main product description, company overview, stats 2. [LaunchDarkly About Us](https://launchdarkly.com/about-us/) – Founding story, leadership team, investors, office locations 3. [LaunchDarkly Careers](https://launchdarkly.com/careers/) – Culture, equal opportunity statement, pay transparency policy 4. [Greenhouse Job Board](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/launchdarkly/jobs/7738584003) – Open positions, remote/hybrid details, team structure 5. 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