Senior Security Engineer

What You’ll Do

Security Engineering

• Design, build, and maintain security platforms, services, APIs, automation, and internal tooling.
• Develop solutions that streamline Cloud vulnerability management, Network Security, Detection engineering, Incident response, access governance, and security operations.
• Use software engineering principles to build detections-as-code, security workflows, internal platforms, and scalable security services.
• Leverage AI extensively to accelerate investigations, automate workflows, improve decision making, and reduce operational overhead.

AI & LLM Security

• Design and implement security controls for AI applications, LLM-powered services, agents, and AI development workflows.
• Build guardrails and security tooling to identify and mitigate risks such as prompt injection, data leakage, model misuse, excessive permissions, insecure plugins, and unsafe AI interactions.
• Develop monitoring, detection, and response capabilities for AI systems and AI-generated content.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to securely enable AI innovation across the organization.

Identity & SaaS Security

• Build and maintain detections-as-code across cloud, identity, endpoint, SaaS, and application environments.
• Design and implement security controls across SaaS platforms, workforce identities, privileged access, and machine identities.
• Partner with engineering teams to implement secure-by-design architectures and security best practices.
• Perform architecture reviews and threat modeling for cloud services, AI-enabled applications, APIs, and infrastructure changes.

Security Innovation & Automation

• Continuously identify opportunities to leverage AI, automation, and modern engineering practices to solve security challenges.
• Develop custom security tools, dashboards, APIs, services, and integrations.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and drive adoption where they provide measurable security and operational value.

What We’re Looking For

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Security Engineering or related cybersecurity roles.
• Bachelor or Masters in Computer Science, Cyber Security or similar.
• Strong software engineering mindset with demonstrated experience building production-grade tools, automation, and security platforms.
• Proven ability to build versus buy whenever practical and create scalable internal solutions.
• Strong proficiency in Python or similar languages, with experience building tools, using open source, APIs, automation, and cloud-native services.
• Strong understanding of cloud architecture, identity systems, networking, operating systems, and modern security principles.
• Experience leveraging AI to transform security operations and engineering workflows.
• Hands-on experience securing AWS, Azure, or GCP environments.
• Experience with SIEM, EDR, WAF, Network Security, Cloud security, SaaS security, IAM, and Security monitoring technologies.
• Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building internal security products, platforms, and developer-focused security tooling.
• Strong understanding of AI/LLM technologies, AI security risks, and secure AI development practices.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust, modern identity architectures, and cloud-native security controls.
• CISSP, CCSP, GCIH, GCFA, or equivalent certifications.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary range: $175k - $220k annually.
• Eligible for stock options and comprehensive benefits package.
• Equity, generous health benefits, flexible time off, paid bonding time, 401k, commuter and FSA benefits, lunch program.