Software Engineer - Information Security

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Salary

$140K-$320K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

97% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Mid From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Work mode

Remote From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

In-office days

0 days From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Company

Company stage

Bootstrapped From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Equity

Offered From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Software Engineer - Information Security San Francisco Bay Area or Remote PlanetScale is growing rapidly and reinventing the database space. The PlanetScale platform offers both PostgreSQL and Vitess clusters and will soon offer sharded PostgreSQL clusters with Neki. Our customers entrust us with what is often their most precious digital asset, their data, so the stakes couldn't be higher. We're looking for a Software Engineer: Information Security to join our team and help us build security into every layer of our infrastructure while maintaining our exceptional developer experience. What's the job to be done? - You will design and implement security controls for PlanetScale's cloud-native database platform, protecting millions of queries per second for some of the world's largest applications. - You will collaborate with engineering teams to conduct security reviews, threat modeling, and provide secure coding guidance across our distributed systems. - A special focus for this role is on proactive red teaming and testing - you will consistently try to break into the PlanetScale platform as an attacker would, and help patch what you find - You will evaluate, procure, and implement proactive security tools and technologies to strengthen our security posture. - You will work closely with our compliance team to ensure adherence to SOC 2, PCI DSS, and other security frameworks. - You will build security automation and tooling to scale security practices across the engineering organization. - You will respond to security incidents and conduct post-incident reviews to improve our security resilience. These attributes best

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