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INTRODUCTION
Recognized as the No. 1 site trusted by real estate professionals, Realtor.com® has been at the forefront of online real estate for over 25 years, connecting buyers, sellers, and renters with trusted insights and expert guidance to find their perfect home. Through its robust suite of tools, Realtor.com® not only makes a significant impact on the real estate industry at large, but for consumers, navigating the biggest purchase they will make in their life, by providing a user experience that is easy to use, easy to understand, and most of all, easy to make decisions.
Join us on our mission to empower more people to find their way home by breaking barriers to entry, making the right connections, and building confidence through expert guidance.
Realtor.com is growing how it uses AI, from internal tools and coding assistants to fleets of autonomous agents. We need a security engineer whose core skill is cybersecurity and whose focus is AI. Recent incidents, like an AI model under test breaking into another company's infrastructure, show the new kinds of risk: agents acting outside their intended scope, models and tools pulled from public hubs, and normal automation becoming an attack path. You'll make sure our systems are built to contain all of that, and that the secure option is also the easy one. You'll work closely with News Corp's global cybersecurity team, bringing AI security depth to Realtor.com while aligning with group-wide standards.
We are looking for a rigorous practitioner who advocates for software engineering excellence across the full Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC). You will leverage AI through spec-driven design, automation-driven provisioning, and robust platform maintenance, eliminating ad hoc ownership and freeing solution builders to focus on workflow design and delivery.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES
What You'll Do:
- Secure the AI platform (AWS and GCP)
- Design and enforce guardrails for AI workloads on AWS (Bedrock, Lambda, IAM, KMS, SCPs, GuardDuty, Security Hub) and GCP (Vertex AI, IAM, VPC Service Controls, Org Policies, Security Command Center, Cloud KMS).
- Define how agents and other non-human accounts are identified and authorized: short-lived, narrowly scoped credentials, delegated user permissions, and a per-agent audit trail, so a misbehaving agent can only do limited damage.
- Build containment for agents: separate read and write permissions, network egress controls, sandboxed execution, approval gates for high-risk actions, and kill switches.
- Design an agent gateway or control plane that keeps agents and their tool calls within approved limits.
- Secure the AI supply chain: where models come from and how they're scanned (including unsafe formats like pickle), vetting of models and datasets from public hubs such as Hugging Face, an approval process for new MCP servers and agent tools, and an inventory of the models, data, and tools each system uses (an AI-BOM).
- Defend against prompt injection, tool poisoning, poisoned retrieval data (RAG poisoning), and sensitive data leakage.
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Put detection and logging in place for agent and model activity, and own the incident response playbooks for AI-specific events.
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Review and guide what gets built
- Lead threat modeling for new products, features, and internal solutions, from consumer-facing experiences to internal tools and agent workflows. Use frameworks like STRIDE, the OWASP LLM/GenAI Top 10, MITRE ATLAS, and OWASP ASVS. Turn the findings into clear design requirements and release criteria.
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Review pull requests, architecture designs, and release-readiness for everything from apps to agent fleets, and make concrete suggestions that move work forward instead of blocking it.
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Build paved-road frameworks, reference architectures, and secure-by-default templates that rule out whole categories of risk, instead of catching them one PR at a time.
- Build security into CI/CD: secrets scanning, SAST/SCA, GitHub Actions hardening, and policy-as-code in Terraform.
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Build an ongoing red-team and evaluation program for our models, agents, and LLM apps, and test new AI features before launch.
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Partner with News Corp cybersecurity
- Work with News Corp's global cybersecurity team to align Realtor.com's AI and cloud security with group-wide standards, policies, and risk frameworks.
- Coordinate on incident response, threat intelligence, and vulnerability disclosure across News Corp businesses.
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Share AI security patterns, threat models, and lessons learned with other News Corp businesses, and bring their insights back to Realtor.com.
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Use AI to do security work
- Build agents that help do the security work: triage findings, investigate alerts, audit IAM for least privilege, and open tested, secure-by-default fix PRs.
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Use Claude Code, Devin, and MCP to make the security team faster, and share those patterns with other engineering teams.
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Stay ahead of the field
- Track new AI threats, incidents, research, and vendor capabilities as they emerge, and turn them into concrete actions for our platform. That includes new attack techniques, model and agent releases, and changes to OWASP, MITRE ATLAS, and other frameworks.
- When a major industry incident happens, quickly assess whether we're exposed and lead the response.
- Prototype new approaches when existing tools and best practices don't fit yet. Run small experiments, measure the results, and turn what works into platform standards.
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Share what you learn: write short internal briefings on major developments and recommend when to adopt, pilot, or skip a new tool or practice.
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Educate and lead
- Create and run AI security training for engineers, product teams, and the wider company: prompt injection, data leakage, excessive agency, and secure use of tools like Claude, Glean, Devin, and Gemini.
- Act as the security voice in AI platform strategy: evaluate vendors and models, set the bar for what's production-ready, and help shape AI governance across the whole AI lifecycle.
- Brief leadership on AI risk and where to invest.
- Represent Realtor.com externally through conference talks, open-source work, or industry working groups.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
What You'll Bring:
- 8+ years in cybersecurity, cloud security, AppSec/product security, or security platform engineering. Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
- Hands-on depth in AWS security, plus real experience in GCP (or a strong multi-cloud background).
- You know that telling an AI not to do something isn't security. You think in permissions, scopes, logs, approval gates, data boundaries, and rollback.
- Experience securing LLM or agentic systems, including prompt injection defenses, retrieval and data-boundary risks, agent identity, and model or tool supply-chain integrity.
- Experience doing threat modeling for products and platforms, not just infrastructure. You can lead a session with engineers and product managers and turn it into requirements they'll actually follow.
- Hands-on experience building with agents, tool calling, or MCP, and with AI coding tools.
- Strong code-review skills in at least one of Python, TypeScript, or Go, and comfort with Terraform/IaC.
- Experience with zero trust, least privilege, SSO/OIDC/OAuth, secrets management, and vulnerability management.
- Experience working within a larger security organization, such as a parent company, central security team, or federated model. You can balance local speed with alignment to enterprise standards.
- Follow AI security research, incident write-ups, and the security community, and you can point to something recent you learned and acted on.
- A builder's mindset. You'd rather prototype a new control than wait for a vendor to ship one, and you're comfortable working where the playbook doesn't exist yet.
- Explain risk clearly to any audience, from a PR comment to an executive briefing to a training session for the whole company.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Nice to have:
- AWS Security Specialty, Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer, CCSP, CISSP, OSCP, or GIAC (GCSA/GWEB).
- Experience red-teaming or evaluating AI models or agents.
- Familiarity with NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, Google SAIF, CoSAI, NIST SSDF, or the EU AI Act.
- Experience securing Snowflake (RBAC, masking, network policy).
- Conference talks, published research, or open-source security contributions.
LOCATION
Location: Austin, TX, United States
HOW WE WORK
We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work four or more days in our offices, where they have the opportunity to collaborate in-person, adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer together.
HOW WE REWARD YOU
Realtor.com is committed to investing in the health and wellbeing of our employees and their families. Our benefits programs include, but are not limited to:
- Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
- Family forming benefits
- 13 Paid Holidays
- Flexible Time Off
- 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off
- Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match
- Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs
- 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions
- Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
- Free snacks and refreshments in each office location
Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com®
Here, you’ll partner with a diverse team of experts as you use leading-edge tech to empower everyone to meet a crucial goal: finding their way home. And you’ll find your way home too. At Realtor.com®, you’ll bring your full self to work as you innovate with speed, serve our consumers, and champion your teammates. In return, we’ll provide you with a warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture; intellectual challenges; and the development opportunities you need to grow.
Diversity is important to us, therefore, Realtor.com® is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Realtor.com® will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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Document your security certifications strategically
PERM requires your employer to define minimum job requirements before advertising. Certifications like CISSP, CISM, or OSCP that you hold must match what the employer lists, so align your credentials to the role description early.
Search employers with active green card filings
Use Migrate Mate to find Staff Security Engineer roles at employers with verified green card sponsorship history, so you're targeting companies already familiar with the PERM and I-140 process rather than educating a first-time sponsor.
Distinguish EB-2 from EB-3 before applying
If your role requires an advanced degree or a bachelor's plus five years of progressive security experience, you may qualify for EB-2. EB-3 covers bachelor's-degree professionals and skilled workers. The category your employer files under affects your priority date queue.
Check your country's priority date backlog early
Nationals of high-demand countries face per-country caps that can create multi-year waits between I-140 approval and green card issuance. Pull the monthly Visa Bulletin from the Department of State to understand your realistic timeline before accepting an offer.
Ask employers about PERM recruitment completion
PERM requires DOL-supervised recruitment, including job postings, newspaper ads, and internal notices. Confirm with your prospective employer whether this recruitment test is complete or still pending, since filing cannot begin until the 30-day notice period closes.
Preserve your priority date if you change jobs
Once your original employer's I-140 is approved, your priority date can transfer to a new employer's petition. If your I-485 has been pending at least 180 days, AC21 portability lets you move to a same-or-similar security engineering role without restarting the green card process.
Green Card Staff Security Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
How does green card sponsorship for a Staff Security Engineer differ from H-1B sponsorship?
Green card sponsorship leads to lawful permanent residence rather than a temporary status. The process starts with PERM labor certification, where your employer proves through DOL-supervised recruitment that no qualified U.S. worker is available for the role. After PERM approval, the employer files an I-140 immigrant petition. H-1B visa is a nonimmigrant work authorization; EB-2 and EB-3 green cards are permanent. Priority date backlogs based on your birth country also affect green card timelines in a way that H-1B caps and lotteries do not.
What qualifications does a Staff Security Engineer need for EB-2 versus EB-3?
EB-2 covers candidates with an advanced degree in a relevant field such as computer science, information security, or engineering, or a bachelor's degree combined with at least five years of progressive experience in security engineering roles. EB-3 covers professionals holding a bachelor's degree and skilled workers with at least two years of experience. The specific job requirements your employer lists in the PERM application must reflect your actual qualifications.
How do I find employers who actively sponsor green cards for security engineering roles?
Migrate Mate lists employers with verified green card sponsorship history for technical roles, letting you focus your search on companies already experienced with the PERM and I-140 process. Targeting employers with established immigration infrastructure reduces the risk of a sponsorship commitment that stalls because the hiring team is unfamiliar with DOL requirements or multi-year timelines.
What happens to my green card case if I want to change employers mid-process?
If your I-485 adjustment of status application has been pending for at least 180 days and your I-140 has been approved, AC21 portability allows you to move to a new job in the same or a similar occupational category without invalidating your case. Your approved priority date can also transfer to a new employer's I-140 petition, so you don't lose your place in the per-country queue by changing companies.
What does PERM labor certification involve for a Staff Security Engineer position?
PERM requires your employer to submit a prevailing wage determination request to OFLC, conduct a formal recruitment test including job postings, newspaper advertisements, and an internal job notice, document that no qualified and available U.S. worker applied, and then file ETA Form 9089 with DOL. The employer must complete all recruitment steps before filing. USCIS reviews the subsequent I-140 petition only after DOL certifies the PERM application.