Staff Product Security Engineer

📋 Job Overview

We’re building the AI-driven future of customer success, from retention to growth! Gainsight is the AI-powered retention engine behind the world’s most customer-centric companies. The Gainsight CustomerOS platform orchestrates the customer journey from onboarding to outcomes to advocacy. More than 2,000 companies trust Gainsight’s applications and AI agents to drive learning, adoption, community connection, and success for their customers. To explore how our suite of solutions is shaping the future of customer success, check out the link.

🏢 About Gainsight

We're looking for a full-time Staff Product Security Engineer to join our Security team, reporting to the Chief Security Officer. This is a hybrid role based out of our Hyderabad and Bengaluru locations, India.

🎯 The Role

In this role, you'll play a key role in maturing Gainsight's Product Security program and embedding customer trust into our SaaS platform by driving Secure by Design principles, threat modeling, and security architecture reviews across the software development lifecycle. This is a great opportunity for someone who thrives in a modern, cloud-native environment and enjoys working cross-functionally with teams like Engineering, Product, and Infrastructure. The ideal candidate brings strong skills in Secure SDLC and threat modeling, application and API security, and influencing executive stakeholders.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Assisting with maturing the application security program.
• Increasing Test Coverage (% of Assets): The percentage of active repositories, microservices, and endpoints monitored by SAST, DAST, SCA, and container scanning tools
• Security Gates Passed/Failed: The ratio of builds that are automatically blocked from deployment due to high-severity policy violations.
• Function as a technical team lead to a global team.
• This is not a complete list of responsibilities, and the scope of the role may evolve with the needs of the team and business. This role will require occasional travel for team meetings, training, or company events.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience across Software Engineering, Security Engineering, Application Security, or Product Security
• Proven experience working in Product Security programs within modern SaaS or cloud-native environments.
• Deep expertise in Secure SDLC, Secure by Design, threat modeling, security architecture, application security, API security, and modern authentication and authorization frameworks.
• Demonstrated success partnering with Engineering and Product leadership to influence architecture, design decisions, and security strategy.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, Kubernetes, containers, and multi-tenant SaaS platforms.
• Experience driving organization-wide vulnerability management and product risk remediation programs.
• Ability to communicate technical risk effectively to executive leadership and drive cross-functional alignment.

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience securing AI/GenAI-powered products and platforms.
• Hands-on software engineering background with experience building distributed systems.
• Experience implementing security automation within modern CI/CD environments.
• Experience leading globally distributed Product Security teams.
• Security certifications such as CISSP, CSSLP, or GIAC certifications.

🎁 Benefits

Our Compensation and Benefits: At Gainsight, we believe great work happens when teammates feel fully supported. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including full health coverage (including OPD), wellness and mental health resources, flexible remote work options, and childcare assistance. You'll also enjoy dedicated Recharge Holidays - one long weekend each quarter to relax and reset.

Our Core Values: We are guided by our values and our mission to be living proof you can win in business while being Human-First. Learn more here.

Our Growth Opportunities: From mentoring to career development opportunities, we’re passionate about helping our teammates learn, grow, and thrive.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

We’re committed to creating an inclusive, fair, and transparent hiring process. As an equal opportunity employer, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a welcoming experience for all candidates.