Staff Engineer Jobs in San Mateo, CA
Staff Engineer jobs in San Mateo are concentrated in the downtown core, the Hillsdale corridor, and the Bay Meadows mixed-use district, with the strongest demand coming from technology, financial services, and healthcare companies. Employers hiring right now include Shield AI, Verkada, and freshworks. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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About Us
Beast Industries is a multifaceted media and entertainment company founded by Jimmy Donaldson, popularly known as MrBeast, the most watched person in the world. Renowned for revolutionizing digital content creation, Beast Industries encompasses a diverse portfolio of ventures that extend far beyond its origins on YouTube. With a mission to entertain, inspire, and create significant social impact, Beast Industries operates across various domains including digital media, philanthropy, consumer products, and innovative business initiatives. At Beast Industries, we believe in the transformative power of digital media and its potential to entertain, educate, and effect positive change. Our commitment to innovation, creativity, and philanthropy drives us to explore new frontiers, create unforgettable experiences, and build a legacy that inspires future generations.
Staff Embedded Mobile & Product Security Engineer
Primary: Bay Area (San Francisco/Peninsula) | Secondary: NYC
Reports to: Director of Engineering Team: Security
About Us
Beast Industries is a multifaceted media and entertainment company founded by Jimmy Donaldson, popularly known as MrBeast, the most watched person in the world. Renowned for revolutionizing digital content creation, Beast Industries encompasses a diverse portfolio of ventures that extend far beyond its origins on YouTube. With a mission to entertain, inspire, and create significant social impact, Beast Industries operates across various domains including digital media, philanthropy, consumer products, and innovative business initiatives. At Beast Industries, we believe in the transformative power of digital media and its potential to entertain, educate, and effect positive change. Our commitment to innovation, creativity, and philanthropy drives us to explore new frontiers, create unforgettable experiences, and build a legacy that inspires future generations.
The Opportunity
We are building a first-of-its-kind consumer membership ecosystem from the ground up — and when you're serving 100M+ users across iOS, Android, and web, security has to be built in from day one, not bolted on later. As our Staff Embedded Mobile & Product Security Engineer, you will be the foundational security hire on the Security team, embedded directly with product and mobile squads to ship features that are secure by design rather than secured after the fact.
This is a hands-on, build-with-the-team role. You'll own mobile and product application security, run the pen testing program (with deep focus on mobile attack surface), and architect the controls that meet partner security requirements so the business can close deals and ship with confidence.
The Product
You will be the security anchor underneath a membership ecosystem anchored around the MrBeast audience, spanning native mobile apps, web clients, and backend platform services. Your surface area spans every product squad and every partnership:
- Mobile Security: iOS and Android app security — secure storage, certificate/key pinning, jailbreak/root and tamper detection, secure IPC, mobile authN/authZ flows, and hardening of the mobile SDK and build/release pipeline.
- Product & Application Security: Threat modeling, secure-by-default patterns, code review, and developer-facing tooling across the membership app, creator marketplace, and platform services.
- Offensive Testing: A pen testing program you own end-to-end — internal red-team exercises (including mobile-specific testing: static/dynamic analysis, reverse engineering, API abuse), coordinated external engagements, and continuous validation against real attacker behavior.
- Security Architecture: The control framework that lets us meet partner security requirements — and the architecture decisions that keep our mobile and product surfaces ready for the next partner, not scrambling for them.
What You'll Do
- Embed directly with mobile and product squads — membership app (iOS/Android), marketplace, data & identity — to threat-model, review, and harden features before they ship.
- Own the mobile application security program end-to-end: secure mobile SDLC, mobile-specific code review (Swift/Kotlin/React Native, as applicable), dependency and supply-chain controls, and developer-facing security tooling.
- Own the broader product application security program: secure-by-default patterns, API and backend security review, and paved-road tooling for engineering teams.
- Run the pen testing program — hands-on offensive work spanning mobile (static/dynamic analysis, binary/reverse engineering, on-device attack surface) and web/API, plus coordination of external engagements — and turn findings into fixed issues, not tickets in a backlog.
- Architect the security controls and documentation that meet partner security requirements, so partnership deals close on our schedule.
- Set the security baseline for a zero-to-one, AI-native stack: coding agents, model and prompt security, mobile AI features, and the new attack surface that comes with AI-native products.
- Write the playbook — mobile and product security standards, guardrails, and the "paved road" — so as the org scales, secure is the easy path.
Who You Are
- Embedded Builder: You've been the security engineer on a product or mobile team, not just a reviewer at the gate. You write code, file PRs, and ship fixes yourself when it's the fastest path.
- Mobile Security Depth: You've secured native iOS and/or Android applications at consumer scale — you understand mobile-specific threats (reverse engineering, tampering, insecure storage, insecure IPC, mobile API abuse) and how to design against them.
- AppSec at Consumer Scale: You've run or heavily contributed to an application security program inside a consumer product used by millions — you know the real tradeoffs between coverage, velocity, and risk.
- Offensive Hands-On: You can pen test mobile and web applications, not just read pen test reports. You've found real bugs in real systems — including on-device and API-level mobile vulnerabilities — and shepherded them through to fix.
- Partner-Compliance Fluent: You've architected against partner security frameworks (or equivalents — SOC 2, PCI, vendor security reviews, mobile app store security requirements) and know how to translate requirements into real controls without theater.
- AI-Native: You aren't just curious about AI; you are burning through tokens, using coding agents daily, and thinking about how AI changes both how we build and what we have to defend — including on-device and mobile AI features.
- Scrappy & Scaled: You have the startup experience to build from zero with a nimble team, plus the big-tech exposure to know what breaks when a product hits massive scale.
- Action-Oriented: You thrive in ambiguity and prefer shipping controls over writing policy. You'd rather land a fix than run a meeting.
Compensation
The target total compensation ranges from $170,000 to $250,000, an employee equity plan grant, bonus, plus comprehensive benefits.
Benefits
The Perks, Why Work On the MrBeast Team
We are redefining what entertainment and storytelling look like at global scale. Every piece of content we publish reaches millions and influences culture in real time. This is your opportunity to lead the team that decides how those moments come to life across every screen.
- Competitive Salary
- Generous Medical (Blue Cross Blue Shield), Dental, Vision and company-paid Life Insurance
- Company contributions to employee Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
- 401k Plan with Safe Harbor company-matching
- Flexible vacation policy and paid company holidays
- Company-provided technology package
- Relocation assistance where applicable, including travel and company-provided housing for the first 90 days
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Staff Engineer Jobs in San Mateo: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a staff engineer job in San Mateo?
Target the technology and financial services companies clustered around downtown San Mateo and the Bay Meadows and Hillsdale corridors, where demand for staff engineers is consistently highest. Candidates who demonstrate systems-level thinking, a history of leading cross-functional projects, and hands-on experience with the specific stack a company uses stand out. Networking through local engineering meetups and engaging directly with companies in those districts gives you a real edge over purely remote applicants.
Which companies hire staff engineers in San Mateo?
Companies currently hiring staff engineers in San Mateo include Shield AI, Verkada, and freshworks, per current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. San Mateo's employer mix skews toward mid-size technology firms, fintech companies, and healthcare technology providers that need senior individual contributors to drive architectural decisions.
Are there remote staff engineer jobs in San Mateo?
Yes, though availability depends heavily on the role: staff engineers doing systems design, code review, and architectural planning tend to work remotely or hybrid, while those embedded in hardware or infrastructure teams are more often on-site. About 100% of staff engineer openings tied to San Mateo are remote or hybrid as of September 2026, reflecting the area's strong concentration of software-focused employers. Platform and backend engineering roles in particular offer the most remote flexibility among San Mateo listings.
How can I get a staff engineer job in San Mateo with little or no experience?
The most realistic path is starting as a senior software engineer at one of San Mateo's mid-size technology or fintech companies, where smaller team sizes mean individual contributors take on broader scope faster. Local healthcare technology and SaaS employers regularly hire strong senior engineers and promote into staff roles within two to three years. Building a visible portfolio of systems design work and seeking out internal tech lead opportunities accelerates that progression in San Mateo's tightly networked engineering community.
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