5+ years of professional software engineering experience, ideally building complex production systems in a fast-paced product or startup environment
Strong software engineering fundamentals and a track record of personally designing, building, and shipping significant product or platform capabilities
Experience building security-sensitive enterprise features or systems, such as authentication and authorization, RBAC/ABAC, SSO/SCIM, permissions and policy systems, audit logging, tenant isolation, secrets management, encryption, or data controls
Strong security intuition and the ability to reason deeply about trust boundaries, permissions, credentials, data access, and how systems can be misused
Strong product judgment: you can understand what enterprise customers are trying to accomplish and translate security requirements into pragmatic, usable product experiences
Ability to lead ambiguous technical areas as a senior IC: identify the problem, develop an approach, align stakeholders, and drive implementation through completion
Clear, thoughtful communication across engineering, Product, GTM, and technically sophisticated customers
Comfortable operating with significant ownership and ambiguity—you default to figuring things out rather than waiting to be told what to do
Experience as a Senior or Staff engineer owning enterprise security, identity, authorization, trust, or governance capabilities at a developer-tool, AI, cloud, security-product, or enterprise SaaS company
Experience building products used by security teams, CISOs, or enterprise administrators, giving you firsthand understanding of how sophisticated organizations think about security
Experience working directly with enterprise customers or GTM teams to turn customer security requirements into product capabilities
Experience securing AI or agentic systems, particularly around scoped permissions, untrusted code execution, sandboxing/isolation, secrets and credentials, tool access, approval flows, or access to customer data
Experience building security products or developer-facing security systems at companies such as Wiz, Snyk, Semgrep, Cloudflare, or similar
Experience with application security, threat modeling, vulnerability response, or security incidents. These are valuable complementary skills, but this role's primary focus is building product
Salary Transparency
Warp operates from a place of high trust and transparency around compensation. We state the pay range that best aligns with our understanding of the market and the needs for the open role
When we find the right person, we try to put our best foot forward with an offer that excites you. We consider your skills, the level of experience you bring, and what similar jobs in the market pay, all while ensuring equal pay for equal work at Warp
Total compensation at Warp consists of: (1) a market-competitive base salary, (2) a generous benefits package, and (3) meaningful equity
The budgeted compensation amount for this role is targeted at $230,000 to 290,000
Exact compensation will vary based on skills and experience
In addition to salary, all employees receive further compensation in the form of equity in the company. This is a meaningful stock option grant with a four-year vesting period and one-year cliff. Your equity is where most of the significant upside potential is. Comparing startup equity is always a bit tricky, so we’re happy to walk you through different valuation scenarios at the offer stage in order to help paint a clearer picture of the upside