Job Description
What are we building?
Hard Rock Digital is a team focused on becoming the best online sportsbook, casino, and social gaming company in the world. We’re building a team that resonates passion for learning, operating, and building new products and technologies for millions of consumers. We care about each customer interaction, experience, behavior, and insight and strive to ensure we’re always acting authentically.
Rooted in the kindred spirits of Hard Rock and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Hard Rock Digital taps a brand known the world over as the leader in gaming, entertainment, and hospitality. We’re taking that foundation of success and bringing it to the digital space - ready to join us?
What's the Position?
We're looking for a Principal Product Security Engineer to own the security of Hard Rock Bet — our sportsbook and casino — from the first line of code to production: how we design and build secure software, and how we find, prioritize, and close vulnerabilities once they exist. Full-lifecycle ownership, not a narrow slice of the pipeline — real autonomy, real accountability for outcomes.
You'll be one of three Principal Engineers — Product Security, Identity, and Cloud & Network Security — hired as direct reports to our VP Security / CISO, inside a 16-person security organization. It's a highly regulated, highly targeted business — player data, real-money transactions, wagering integrity — your work directly protects players and our license to operate.
If you like owning a problem end to end and making the secure path the fast path to production, this role is built for you.
What You'll Do
Secure SDLC & DevSecOps
Embed automated checks across our cloud (GitHub Actions) and on-prem product pipelines — GitHub Advanced Security (SAST/SCA) and Wiz Code for application, dependency, and container scanning
Define secure-by-default patterns, paved-road guardrails, and standards for secure coding, code review, and dependency hygiene — so teams ship quickly and safely
Serve as the application authority for our Zero Trust program, aligned to NIST SP 800-207 and the CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model (Applications & Workloads pillar)
Threat Modeling & Secure Design
Partner with product and engineering on security reviews for new features and payment integrations — running threat modeling (e.g., STRIDE) early in design and turning output into concrete, prioritized work
Vulnerability Management (End to End)
Own the product and application vulnerability lifecycle — one program spanning code, dependency, container, pen-test, and bug-bounty findings, from discovery through remediation
Prioritize by real-world risk and drive remediation against risk-based SLAs; engineering owns the fixes, you own the program and the escalation paths that shrink time to remediate
Report program health with metrics leadership can act on, and provide evidence for compliance obligations (PCI DSS, GLI, ISO 27001, SOC 2)
Where this role ends: our Principal Cloud & Network Security Engineer owns cloud misconfiguration and runtime posture; you own the application layer — code, dependencies, and containers — on one shared prioritization model
Application & API Security
Defend our applications and APIs against the OWASP Top 10 and API abuse, partner on payment security across our payment gateways, and team with our Principal Cloud & Network Security Engineer — who owns our Cloudflare edge defenses (WAF, Bot Management) — on bot and abuse resilience
Own the application security of player-facing account flows — registration, authentication, session management, recovery — partnering with our Principal Identity Engineer on CIAM architecture and with SecOps and Fraud on account-takeover resilience
Testing & External Assurance
Coordinate penetration testing with external partners and drive findings to closure
Mature our existing coordinated-disclosure program into a full bug-bounty capability
This is a big charter by design — year one is about sequencing, not doing it all at once. You'll set priorities with the CISO; with GitHub Advanced Security, Wiz, and Cloudflare already live, you're building a program, not standing up scanners from zero.