About Us

Chess.com is one of the largest gaming sites in the world and the #1 platform for playing, learning, and enjoying chess.

We are a team of 600+ fully remote people in 60+ countries working hard to serve the general chess community. We are here to support 250M+ chess players worldwide with the best possible product, content, and tools to serve the community

We are a tech company. A gaming company. A content company. And we do it all with passion and commitment to the game. Above all we prize our mission-driven, flat, life-celebrating, no-corporate culture, and we look forward to meeting you and learning more about what you can bring to the team.

About The Role

The Security Engineer plays a critical role in protecting our technology infrastructure and maintaining the security posture of our gaming platform. This position exists to proactively identify, assess, and mitigate security vulnerabilities while serving as a trusted security advisor to engineering teams across the organization. The role directly impacts our ability to safeguard user data,



maintain platform integrity, and ensure secure development practices are embedded throughout our product development lifecycle.

This position is essential for building and maintaining robust security defenses in a fast-paced, remote-first technology environment where security expertise must be seamlessly integrated into daily engineering operations and strategic decision-making processes.

What you'll do
- Lead vulnerability management program by triaging, reproducing, and assessing security vulnerabilities submitted through Bug Bounty programs, working directly with engineering teams to prioritize and remediate discovered security gaps
- Conduct comprehensive threat modeling by collaborating with engineering teams to analyze proposed solutions, ensuring designs meet security industry standards and identifying potential attack vectors before implementation
- Manage security incident response by reviewing penetrat

📌 Security Engineer (Barcelona)
🏢 Chess.com
📍 Barcelona