Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Product Security has become a core differentiator for SaaS platforms, especially as product surfaces expand and new AI- and LLM-enabled capabilities introduce unfamiliar threat models. This role stands out because it is embedded with product engineering rather than positioned purely as an audit function, signaling a “secure-by-design” approach that fits modern SaaS delivery cycles.
For a long-term SaaS career, the remit offers durable leverage: building reusable security frameworks, shaping security programs, and translating external testing into engineering action are all skills that travel well across subscription software businesses. The emphasis on metrics, roadmaps, and strategic planning also reflects how mature SaaS organizations operationalize security as an ongoing product discipline, not a one-time compliance milestone.
This position is best suited to someone who enjoys partnering across teams and can move between hands-on technical work and influence-oriented program leadership. It aligns with professionals who like writing production-grade code, can communicate risk in practical terms, and want to stay close to how SaaS products are designed, shipped, and iterated—particularly where AI features raise the bar for application security judgment.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Join Airtable as a Product Security Engineer and play a pivotal role in shaping the security of our rapidly evolving platform. You will partner closely with product teams to ensure our products are secure by design, drive impactful security programs, and build production-ready code that safeguards our users. This is a unique opportunity to influence application security at scale as we expand our AI and LLM-powered offerings.
What you'll do
- Partner with product teams to review product plans, designs, and code for security considerations
- Lead and implement programs that raise the bar for application and product security across the organization
- Build and ship frameworks that make it easy for product engineers to ship secure code
- Triage and drive remediation for findings from external penetration testers
- Research emerging threats and evolving best practices, especially in AI and LLM safety, and educate the rest of Engineering about your findings.
- Work with our advisors and third party vendors on penetration tests, security reports and compliance projects.
- Contribute to roadmaps, metrics and and strategic planning for the product security team
Who you are
- 2+ years experience in product security and application security, with some experience shipping production code
- Skilled at conducting in-depth security reviews and collaborating with engineering teams
- Proficient in writing clean, maintainable code
- Hands-on experience with AI product security for LLM-powered products
- Strong communicator and collaborator, able to drive security initiatives and foster trust with partner teams
- You excel at communicating analyses of technical issues and recommendations for addressing them.
- Comfortable making systems as well as breaking them; you enjoy both building controls and finding gaps
- Familiar with JavaScript or TypeScript, Node, Linux, and AWS or comparable technologies, and can reason about the security implications of systems built on them
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and contributing to long-term security strategy
Airtable is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and strive to create a workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any characteristic protected by applicable federal and state laws, regulations and ordinances. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.
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