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title: 'Staff Security Engineer, Product Security at Flexport'
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# Staff Security Engineer, Product Security at Flexport

- **Company:** Flexport
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $148k–$271k
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-11-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/flexport/jobs/8374703

## Job description

About Flexport:

At Flexport, we believe global trade can move the human race forward. That’s why it’s our mission to make global commerce so easy there will be more of it. We’re shaping the future of a $10T industry with solutions powered by innovative technology and exceptional people. Today, companies of all sizes—from emerging brands to Fortune 500s—use Flexport technology to move more than $19B of merchandise across 112 countries a year.

The recent global supply chain crisis has put Flexport center stage as we continue to play a pivotal role in how goods move around the world. We are proud to have the support of the best investors in the game who believe in our mission, solutions and people. Ready to tackle global challenges that impact business, society, and the environment? Come join us.

## What You'll Do

- Architecture & strategy
- Define security architecture for Flexport's products and services, and set the patterns and reference implementations that make secure-by-default the path of least resistance.
- Lead security engineering reviews for the highest-risk product features, and set the bar for what "good" looks like in reviews you don't personally run.
- Build and scale the security champions program and product security training that extend your judgment into teams where you can't be in every review.
- Design-time & review
- Lead domain-specific threat modeling and attack surface analysis across Flexport's product surface, not just individual features.
- Partner with engineering leadership to resolve the design tradeoffs that a senior engineer would escalate.
- Vulnerability management
- Set the bar for how the team triages, reproduces, and prioritizes bug bounty submissions and internal security reports, and step in on the hardest or highest-severity cases.
- Drive remediation of systemic classes of vulnerability, not just individual findings.
- Developer enablement & leadership
- Own the security services and tooling consumed by product teams across our global infrastructure.
- Mentor other engineers on the team, and act as the authoritative technical voice on product security across engineering leadership.

You Should Have

- Typically 8+ years of experience in product/application security, with real hands-on time building security tools and services, not just reviewing them — we care more about what you've built than the exact number.
- A track record of designing security architecture that scales across many teams and services, not just securing a single product.
- Strong grasp of web application security principles and hands-on experience with application testing tools (Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, or similar)
- Software development experience building security tools in at least one modern language (Go, Python, Java/Kotlin, TypeScript, Ruby, or similar)
- Track record of leading multi-team technical initiatives and mentoring engineers into senior roles

## Nice to Have

- Experience running or scaling a security champions program
- Identity management and identity federation experience (SAML, OAuth, SCIM)
- Experience with IaaS cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, containers, and service-oriented architectures
- Hands-on experience with bug bounty platforms and SAST tools (Cycode, Semgrep, Snyk, or similar)
- Experience performing code audits on internal or open-source libraries before they ship in production

## How We Work

- We stay closely aligned with teammates on other continents via Slack, video, and async docs
- We have the latest hardware and software, including frontier AI models on day one
- We're agile, but not dogmatic — the team decides how it works best

## Why This Role Is Special

- Massive leverage: the conventions and champions program you build are multiplied across hundreds of engineers who never talk to you directly.
- Broad authority: you set the architecture other reviews are measured against, rather than being the one measured.
- You're part of PSI: the platform, security, and infrastructure teams work hand in hand, and security is treated as infrastructure with real engineering quality bars, not a policy function.

#LI-Remote

## #LI-VA1

The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range displayed, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and / or training. Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at Flexport, which also includes bonus, equity, and comprehensive benefit offerings such as medical, dental, and flexible time off.

California Pay Range $148,210—$270,703 USD

Washington Pay Range $196,875—$270,703 USD

Colorado Pay Range $148,210—$185,263 USD

New York City Pay Range $196,875—$270,703 USD

Illinois Pay Range $148,210—$185,263 USD

Commitment to Equal Opportunity

At Flexport, our ability to fulfill our mission of making global commerce easy and accessible relies on having a diverse, dedicated and engaged workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical and mental disability, health status, marital and family status, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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## About Flexport

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Flexport is a technology-driven freight forwarding and supply chain platform that uses AI to coordinate global logistics from factory to customer door.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series E)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2013
- **Founders**: Ryan Petersen

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Logistics, Supply Chain Technology, Freight Forwarding
- **Target customers**: B2B — enterprise and SMB businesses that import/export goods globally across industries
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To make global trade so easy there will be more of it."

## Products & Services
- **Ocean & Air Freight**: Full-service ocean and air freight solutions with SKU-level visibility, real-time tracking, and cost management.
- **Customs Brokerage**: Licensed customs brokers using AI to review 100% of entries before submission, achieving a compliance error rate 10x better than next best in class.
- **Booking Management**: Platform to manage ocean contracts and bookings, track real-time performance, and optimize allocation strategies.
- **Buyer’s Consolidation**: Service to maximize container utilization by grouping multiple suppliers into one container, reducing freight and labor costs.
- **Supply Chain AI Platform**: AI-driven decision-making platform that automates processes, reduces freight spend by 10% or more, and deploys large language models and AI agents for real-world logistics optimization.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: 2.9x net revenue growth since 2024; serves more than 13,000 customers across 147 countries
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Ryan Petersen (Founder & CEO); major investors include Founders Fund, SoftBank Vision Fund, and others (specific lead investors not fully detailed in provided sources)
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid AI deployment in logistics; 400+ software engineers focused on AI; net revenue growth of 2.9x since 2024; expanding global presence with offices worldwide

## Competitive Advantages
- **Real-world AI deployment**: Unlike many supply chain AI startups, Flexport is deeply embedded in actual operations of moving cargo by ocean, air, truck, and rail, with proprietary data and integrations.
- **Scale and trust**: 13,000+ customers and integration with enterprise systems, logistics service providers, and governments.
- **Customs compliance**: AI auditor reviews 100% of entries, achieving 10x better error rate than next best in class.
- **End-to-end platform**: Single platform covering freight, customs, booking, and consolidation, reducing silos and complexity.
- **Data ontology**: Proprietary data ontology for global logistics, enabling powerful AI models.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-driven autonomous supply chain**: Building AI agents to create an autonomous supply chain, deploying the latest foundational AI models on top of proprietary data and integrations.
- **Customer obsession**: Prioritizing customer success and hard cost savings (e.g., 10%+ reduction in freight spend).
- **Global expansion**: Operating across continents and time zones, with offices in multiple global locations.
- **Talent development**: Aiming to hire 80% of manager and above roles from within, developing early-career talent into leaders.

## Why Work Here
- **Meritocracy**: Compensation and advancement based on value created, with rapid growth opportunities for smart, hardworking people. Many leaders started on the ground floor.
- **Learning environment**: Described as "the best company to learn about how the world works" — logistics underlies the global economy. Employees speak over 70 languages.
- **Cutting-edge technology**: 400+ software engineers deploying latest AI models in real-world logistics; roles include Senior Software Engineer: Applied AI, Autonomous Freight Systems, and Data Infrastructure.
- **Culture**: Values include "Win as a Team," "Empower the Client," "Play the Long Game," "Act Like an Entrepreneur," and "Simplify." Recognized as a Great Place to Work.
- **Global and remote-friendly**: 125 open positions across Engineering, Operations, Sales, Customs, and more, with offices worldwide and remote options.
- **Impact**: Working on the $8.6T global logistics market — "the single largest opportunity to apply AI anywhere in the world."

## Sources
1. [flexport.com](https://www.flexport.com/company/careers/)
2. [flexport.com](https://www.flexport.com/)
3. [flexport.com](https://www.flexport.com/company/about-us/)
4. [flexport.com](https://www.flexport.com/careers/jobs/)
5. [flexport.com](https://www.flexport.com/careers/jobs/?gh_src=c0d6caef1)

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