[Hiring] Staff Security Engineer @Root Insurance

Role Description

At Root, we are reimagining insurance by building a smarter, more equitable system from the ground up. As the Staff Security Engineer, you will be the technical visionary driving security strategy across our entire enterprise. You will act as a force multiplier for the Information Security and IT organizations, bridging the gap between high-level business risk and operational execution. In this role, you will define the "paved roads" for security, securing our AI adoption, and elevating our technical maturity to meet the evolving demands of our insurance business and regulatory landscape.

Salary Range: $157,000 - $196,000 (Eligible for competitive bonus and equity offering)

Root is a “work where it works best” company. This means we will support you working in whatever location that works best for you across the US.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of security experience spanning security operations, product security, infrastructure security, and application security.
• Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. CISSP is a plus.
• Bonus points for offensive security experience: penetration testing, red teaming, or exploit development.

Requirements

• You have set architectural direction: roadmaps, standards, and secure reference patterns that more than one business unit actually followed.
• You have partnered with product and engineering leaders to build security into the development lifecycle, through threat modeling, design review, and secure defaults, instead of bolting it on afterward.
• Deep technical breadth across cloud (AWS) and traditional enterprise security.
• This is a hands-on role: you build proof-of-concepts to prove a design, and you dig into broken systems yourself when it matters.
• You have run security metrics programs, and the numbers drove prioritization and impact.
• You have designed systems against best practices and regulatory requirements and you know how to pass an audit by design rather than by scrambling before it.
• You have secured AI systems hands-on, from threat modeling to runtime defense, and you have used AI to automate real security work.
• You talk to non-security stakeholders in plain language, build consensus, and influence engineering leadership without being the department of no.
• You would rather automate a recurring problem than file a ticket about it.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range.
• Eligible for competitive bonus and equity offering.
• Work from a location that suits you across the US.

Company Description

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