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Spotify

New York, NY; Toronto

Security Engineer - Product Security

Posted 16 Oct

Level
Mid level
Experience
Not stated
Work style
Hybrid
Full-time
Area
Security engineering

At a glance

The role in plain English

This Security Engineer role sits within Spotify's Product Security team, focusing on automating vulnerability remediation using agentic AI. The position involves building workflows and tools that turn vulnerability findings into actionable code changes, and designing frameworks to evaluate the quality of automated fixes. It suits experienced software engineers with a background in security, AI-assisted development, and scalable systems, who are comfortable collaborating with developers and security stakeholders.

What you'll do

  • Build agentic AI workflows for automated vulnerability remediation
  • Design evaluation frameworks for quality of automated fixes
  • Develop tools to compare and improve remediation approaches
  • Research and apply AI-assisted vulnerability remediation practices
  • Collaborate with developers and security stakeholders for feedback

What they're looking for

Essential

  • Experience in software engineering and security engineering
  • Proficient in Java, Python, Scala, C++, or TypeScript
  • Experience with agentic AI or AI-assisted development workflows
  • Understanding of software architecture and scalable systems
  • Knowledge of security risks and vulnerabilities

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with agentic AI frameworks
  • Experience integrating security tools into production environments

Core skills

  • Software engineering
  • Agentic AI
  • Vulnerability management
  • Python
  • Java
  • Security automation
  • Evaluation frameworks

The shape of the job

Technical depth

4/5

FoundationalSpecialist

Pace

3/5

SteadyFast-moving

Ownership

4/5

GuidedSelf-directed

Teamwork

4/5

Heads-downHighly collaborative

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  1. 01How have you automated vulnerability remediation in previous roles?
  2. 02Describe your experience building or evaluating agentic AI workflows.
  3. 03How do you assess the reliability and safety of AI-generated code fixes?
  4. 04What challenges have you faced integrating security tools into engineering environments?

About Spotify

Spotify's Platform team develops infrastructure, tooling, and frameworks to support global business growth and developer productivity.

Full job descriptionAs published by Spotify

The Platform team creates the technology that enables Spotify to learn quickly and scale easily, enabling rapid growth in our users and our business around the globe. Spanning many disciplines, we work to make the business work; creating the infrastructure, tooling, frameworks, and capabilities needed to welcome a billion customers.

Security engineers at Spotify help protect our environment and more than 700 million users. Within Platform, our Product Security team evaluates and communicates Spotify's security posture, helping developers and leadership make informed decisions about security risks. We own the vulnerability management platform, supporting the full lifecycle of identifying, attributing, remediating, and reporting security vulnerabilities.

As AI changes how vulnerabilities are discovered and exploited, we're evolving how Spotify responds. We're looking for a Security Engineer to help transform vulnerability findings into reliable, actionable code improvements using agentic AI. You'll build the tools, workflows, and evaluation frameworks that make automated remediation more effective, scalable, and safe, while helping developers focus on building great experiences for our users.

What You'll Do

Build and improve agentic AI workflows that turn security vulnerability findings into tested, review-ready code changes for engineering teams across Spotify.

Design and implement evaluation frameworks to measure the quality of automated fixes, including correctness, completeness, safety, build and test success, and pull request merge rates.

Develop tools and processes to compare remediation approaches, evaluate AI models, and continuously improve the reliability and effectiveness of generated fixes.

Research and apply emerging practices in AI-assisted vulnerability remediation, including prompt engineering, context engineering, and vulnerability-specific fix guidance.

Identify which vulnerability types are suitable for automated remediation, balancing security impact, technical feasibility, and developer experience.

Collaborate with developers and security stakeholders to collect feedback through code reviews, pull requests, support channels, and interactive sessions, using these insights to improve remediation quality.

Help shape how Spotify approaches security posture management by building scalable solutions that reduce security risks and make it easier for teams to address vulnerabilities.

Who You Are

You have experience in software engineering, particularly within security engineering, developer experience, or internal infrastructure.

You can confidently read, understand, and write code in one or more languages such as Java, Python, Scala, C++, or TypeScript.

You have experience designing and building scalable systems, with an understanding of software architecture and reliable engineering practices.

You have worked with agentic AI systems or AI-assisted development workflows and understand how to apply them to real-world engineering challenges.

You understand common security risks, attack vectors, and vulnerabilities, including those affecting AI and machine learning systems, and approaches to mitigating them.

You have experience integrating security tools or automated workflows into production engineering environments.

You are familiar with agentic AI frameworks and approaches to evaluating the quality, reliability, and safety of AI-generated outputs.

You enjoy collaborating across teams, learning from feedback, and navigating ambiguity. You're comfortable experimenting with new approaches while balancing innovation with thoughtful security decisions.

Where You'll Be

This role is based in the EST time zone

Spotify is an equal opportunity employer. You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

At Spotify, we are passionate about inclusivity and making sure our entire recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We have ways to request reasonable accommodations during the interview process and help assist in what you need. If you need accommodations at any stage of the application or interview process, please let us know - we’re here to support you in any way we can.

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