Security Software Engineer

Hover • San Francisco, CA

2d • $148,000 - $183,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Security Software Engineer, you will help build and maintain foundational security systems that protect our users and infrastructure. You will bring strong technical fundamentals, product thinking, and a collaborative mindset. You’ll take ownership of scoped features, grow quickly with mentorship, and build strong security and full-stack fundamentals. Working closely with senior engineers, you will collaborate on core functions such as authentication (login, MFA), identity management (SCIM, RBAC), and secret management, learning how to design and implement robust, scalable security solutions into our platform.

The Infrastructure and Security team at Hover ensures the scalability, reliability, and security of our platform, empowering engineers to build and deploy applications faster, safer, and with greater stability. This collaborative team is composed of engineers with expertise in cloud infrastructure, security, automation, and CI/CD best practices. We handle everything from Kubernetes environments and cloud architecture to securing user authentication and automating vulnerability detection.

Our mission is to make the best path the easiest path by providing robust automation, consistent patterns, and secure-by-design principles. We partner with engineering teams to tackle challenges like managing rich geospatial and machine learning workloads, hardening cloud infrastructure, and implementing security features across our stack (Ruby, TypeScript, Docker, GCP, Terraform, and more).

Team members are supported with professional growth opportunities, a strong focus on learning, and a culture that values collaboration, innovation, and the continuous improvement of our systems and security posture. Join us to work on cutting-edge challenges that are critical to the foundation of Hover’s success.

Requirements

• 1-2+ years of hands-on software engineering experience (or equivalent practical experience).
• Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field, or strong technical fundamentals, with an interest in security.
• Strong programming fundamentals (debugging, writing maintainable code) and proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Ruby, TypeScript, Python, C++, etc.) with comfort learning new stacks.
• Basic familiarity with web security concepts, modern development practices, and integrating security into the SDLC.
• Strong attention to detail, clear communication, and an eagerness to ask clarifying questions and surface blockers early.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills for cross-team interactions.

Nice To Haves

• Experience from internships or collaborative coding projects in a university or professional setting.
• Familiarity with security tools (e.g., SAST scanners, vulnerability detectors) or LLM-assisted coding tools.
• Demonstrated curiosity in security through CTF competitions, open-source contributions, or personal projects.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on the development of core security services (e.g., permissions management, secrets orchestration, secure MLOps).
• Help build secure-by-default libraries and frameworks that empower engineering teams to write secure code.
• Assist with enhancing our CI/CD pipeline by integrating automated self-serve security controls (e.g., SAST, supply chain security checks).
• Support secure code and architecture reviews, assist in enforcing secure-by-design principles, and learn to lead threat modeling under mentorship.
• Contribute to maintaining resilient cloud infrastructure, network isolation, automated vulnerability detection, and defense-in-depth strategies to harden our production environment.
• Contribute to security incident response, document security risks, and support compliance audits (e.g., SOC 2).
• Advise teams on security best practices, identify and solve for developer security friction points, and bring security awareness to engineering.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity in a fast-growing company
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and dependents
• Unlimited and flexible vacation policy
• Generous paid parental and new child bonding leave
• A day set aside each month to allow employees to recharge
• Recurring fitness classes, meditation/ mindfulness tools, virtual therapy, and family planning assistance
• Continued education support for management training, conferences, workshops, or certifications

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level