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title: 'Security Engineer at Roboflow'
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# Security Engineer at Roboflow

- **Company:** Roboflow
- **Location:** NY Sf, OR
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-02-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/roboflow/b901822f-46c5-4d03-8e6e-bba36bd1e11f

## Job description

## Who We Are

Our mission is to make the world programmable. Sight is one of the key ways we understand the world, and soon this will be true for the software we use, too. We’re building the tools, community, and resources needed to make the world programmable with artificial intelligence. Roboflow simplifies building and using computer vision models. Today, over 1M+ developers, including those from half the Fortune 100, use Roboflow’s machine learning open source and hosted tools. That includes[counting cells](https://blog.roboflow.com/cancer-research-computer-vision/) to accelerate cancer research, improving[construction site safety](https://blog.roboflow.com/preventing-accidents-on-construction-sites-with-computer-vision/),[digitizing floor plans](https://blog.roboflow.com/floor-plan-analysis-computer-vision/),[preserving coral reef populations](https://blog.roboflow.com/reefos-supercharging-coral-reef-restoration-with-ai/),[guiding drone flight](https://blog.roboflow.com/georeferencing-drone-videos/), and[much more](https://roboflow.com/templates). Roboflow is supported by great customers and investors, having raised over 63 million from Y Combinator, Google Ventures, Craft Ventures, Sam Altman, Lachy Groom, amongst other leading software investors. We are looking for a Senior Security Engineer who views security as an engineering challenge, not a checkbox exercise. You will join our Infrastructure Team to own security across our entire stack (from the low-level GKE configurations to the high-level application logic). In a startup of our size, "chaos" is just another word for "opportunity." You aren’t here to just manage compliance spreadsheets or interface with IT; you are here to build the tooling, automation, and architecture that makes it impossible for our developers to make a critical mistake as we continually increase velocity.

## What You’ll Do

- Own the Stack: Secure everything from our Kubernetes clusters on the cloud to our SaaS integrations and developer workflows.
- Usher in the Future: articulate and execute on a vision for what security should be in the age of LLMs giving both us and attackers increasing leverage.
- Engineer for Security: Build internal tooling and CI/CD automations that catch vulnerabilities before they ever hit production.
- Architect & Model: Lead threat modeling sessions and secure code reviews, ensuring we design "secure-by-default" APIs and deployments.
- Harden the Perimeter: Take a first-principles approach to hardening authentication and access control across all internal and external surfaces.
- Red Team: proactively probe for vulnerabilities and lead the remediation.
- Lead the Bug Bounty: You will be the primary owner for standing up, launching, and managing our Bug Bounty Program, triaging reports, and driving remediation.
- Respond & Remediate: Investigate vulnerabilities, lead incident response, orchestrate pen testing, and run blameless postmortems that actually result in systemic change.
- Evangelize: Be the partner, not the blocker. Translate complex security risks into actionable engineering tasks that your peers can get excited about.

## Who You Are

- Startup Native: You thrive in a fast paced 100–300 person environments. You know how to prioritize when everything feels urgent and are comfortable "failing forward" to find the right solution.
- Security-First Engineer: You have 6+ years of experience in software/infrastructure engineering with a deep obsession with security. You don't just find holes; you write the code to plug them.
- Cloud Savvy: You are deeply familiar with Google Cloud (GCP), Kubernetes, and containerized environments.
- Systems Thinker: You can analyze a system for weaknesses whether they are buried in business logic, IAM configurations, or the codebase.
- Action-Oriented: You have a track record of responding to real-world incidents and leading remediation efforts without being the "no" person.

Our Technical Stack

- Cloud: Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Orchestration: Kubernetes (GKE)
- Infrastructure: Terraform / Infrastructure-as-Code
- Pipeline: Modern CI/CD workflows and various SaaS integrations

Where You'll Work Roboflow is distributed across the US and Europe. We currently have Hubs in New York City and San Francisco (and plan to open more as we grow density in new cities). We provide opportunities (like team onsites in different cities) and [resources](https://blog.roboflow.com/how-we-work-together-at-roboflow/) (like a $4000/yr travel stipend) to work in person with other team members as much as you'd like, while also supporting remote team members. You can work from one of our Hubs (we offer a relocation bonus), work from home, work at co-working spaces, etc. We want you to work where you work best!

## What You’ll Receive

To determine your salary, we use a number of market and data-driven salary sources. We review all salaries every six months to ensure we stay in line with the market. The target salary for this position ranges from $165,000-$200,000 📈 In addition to our cash compensation, we offer generous perks and benefits. Below are some of the highlights:

- $4000/yr Travel Stipend to travel anywhere anytime to work alongside other Roboflowers
- $350/mo Productivity stipend to spend on things that make your work environment more productive, like high-speed internet at home or a co-working space
- $350/mo AI Tools stipend
- $150/mo team lunch stipend
- $500/one time home office stipend
- Cover up to 100% of your health insurance costs for you and your partner or family
- Equity in the company so we are all invested in the future of computer vision

Interview Process (6+ hours) Below is the interview process you can expect for this role. We are all motivated to work with an exceptional team and you will be speaking directly with our team about what it's like to work and thrive at Roboflow. We like to be decisive and work fast, so don't be surprised if all the below conversations happen over a day or two. Before the Interview:

- We’ll review your application, LinkedIn, Github, etc.
- The best way to stand out is to write about something you’ve built with Roboflow or contribute to one of [our open source projects](https://roboflow.com/open-source).
- We may send you a technical screen if applicable.

Introduction Phase:

- [30m] Meet with People Ops
- [30m] Meet with hiring manager to assess for overall mindset and skillset
- [45m] Technical Assessment

Team Interview Phase:

- [30m] Meet with another member of the team
- [60m] Meet with hiring manager or CTO
- Use this time to review specifics about the job description
- Begin working through your 30/60/90 projects
- Ask questions!

Final Interview Stage:

- [45m] Meet with Head of Operations for a culture discussion
- [60m / Optional] Meet with Joseph Nelson, CEO

Note: you are welcome to request additional conversations with anyone you would like to meet and we will accommodate as best we can.

Learn More About Us Roboflow is a diverse, distributed team and an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and experiences. We offer competitive compensation and benefits, plus opportunities to learn from and contribute to our world-class team.

## Equal Employment Opportunity

We’re committed to building an inclusive team where great ideas come from everywhere. We consider all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

## About Roboflow

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Roboflow provides an end-to-end platform for developers and enterprises to build, train, and deploy computer vision applications.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B – $40M raised Nov 2024)
- **Headquarters**: Distributed company with offices in New York City and San Francisco; headquartered in the Midwestern United States
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Brad Dwyer, Joseph Nelson

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools
- **Target customers**: Developers, machine learning engineers, enterprises (B2B); over half of the Fortune 100 use Roboflow
- **Mission statement**: "Make the physical world programmable." [roboflow.com/about](https://roboflow.com/about)

## Products & Services
- **[Roboflow Platform](https://roboflow.com/)**: End-to-end tooling for dataset management, model training, and deployment. Supports annotation, versioning, training with popular frameworks, and deployment to cloud or edge devices.
- **[Inference](https://roboflow.com/inference)**: Open source, production-ready inference server for running computer vision models. Deployable on cloud infrastructure or edge devices. Compliant with SOC2 Type 2 and HIPAA.
- **[Supervision](https://roboflow.com/supervision)**: Open source library offering utilities for annotation, object tracking, model chaining, and custom pipeline logic.
- **[Autodistill](https://roboflow.com/autodistill)**: Open source tool for using large foundation models to label data, enabling training of smaller, faster supervised models.
- **[Notebooks](https://roboflow.com/notebooks)**: Open source Jupyter Notebooks demonstrating training and inference with state-of-the-art computer vision models.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Funding**: $63M+ total raised (Series B of $40M announced Nov 2024) [roboflow.com/careers](https://roboflow.com/careers)
- **Key Metric**: Over 1 million developers and 16,000+ organizations use Roboflow; more than two-thirds of the Fortune 100 build with Roboflow
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Amjad Masad (CEO Replit), Guillermo Rauch (CEO Vercel), co-founders of OpenAI, Stripe, Firebase, Segment. Jeff Dean (Chief Scientist, Google DeepMind) is an advisor. [roboflow.com/about](https://roboflow.com/about) [crunchbase.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/roboflow)
- **Growth Signals**: Released RF-DETR (state-of-the-art real-time object detection model) in March 2025; expanded enterprise-grade infrastructure (SOC2, HIPAA); integrations with NVIDIA, Azure, CVAT; growing customer base across industries (sports, manufacturing, logistics).

## Competitive Advantages
- **End-to-end platform** covering the entire computer vision pipeline from data labeling to deployment.
- **Open source core tools** (Inference, Supervision, Autodistill) build a large developer community and ecosystem.
- **Enterprise-grade security and compliance** (SOC2 Type 2, HIPAA, encryption, A+ SSL rating) lowering barriers for regulated industries.
- **Strong integration ecosystem** with frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow), cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), and hardware (NVIDIA).
- **Community scale** (1M+ developers) creates network effects and accelerates model improvement.

## Strategic Focus
- **Enterprise adoption**: Investing in enterprise tooling, compliance, and customer success (e.g., HIPAA BAAs, dedicated support).
- **Open source leadership**: Continuing to release and maintain popular open source projects (Inference, Supervision, Autodistill) to drive adoption and innovation.
- **Edge deployment**: Optimizing for running models on edge devices (cameras, drones, mobile) with minimal friction.
- **Foundation model integration**: Using large vision models to generate training data for smaller, efficient models (Autodistill) and releasing state-of-the-art models like RF-DETR.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include "full-stack people" (ownership beyond role), "together everywhere" (remote collaboration), and "curious, crafty, committed" (autonomy, problem-solving, teamwork). [roboflow.com/careers](https://roboflow.com/careers)
- **Work model**: Distributed-first with dedicated offices in NYC and SF; two company-wide onsites per year.
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary & equity, unlimited vacation, parental leave & fertility support, medical/vision/dental, mental health support, $4,000 annual travel stipend, $350/month productivity stipend, $350/month AI tool stipend, home office stipend, relocation stipend.
- **Impact**: Work spans industries like sports (Wimbledon), manufacturing (Rivian), and logistics (BNSF Railway).

## Sources
1. [roboflow.com](https://roboflow.com/)
2. [roboflow.com/about](https://roboflow.com/about)
3. [roboflow.com/careers](https://roboflow.com/careers)
4. [crunchbase.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/roboflow)
5. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/roboflow)

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