# Security Engineer

**Company:** [Nooks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/nooks)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $200k – $315k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Application Security, Cloud Security, AWS, GCP, Threat Modeling, Secure Sdlc, Detection And Response, SOC 2, Ai Security, Llm Security, Prompt Injection
**Posted:** 2026-06-30

> Second Security Engineer at Nooks.ai, securing an AI-native sales platform and its AI agents. Own threat modeling, secure SDLC, cloud hardening, compliance (SOC 2), and novel AI security challenges (guardrails, prompt injection). Requires 4-5+ years in infosec with strong app/cloud security fundamentals; startup experience preferred.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own security reviews and threat modeling for new and existing product surfaces.
- Build and improve core security processes (secure SDLC, detection & response).
- Harden cloud and application infrastructure and drive remediation of high-priority risks.
- Help define how we secure AI agents and govern their use — guardrails, data exposure, prompt-injection and abuse risks.
- Support enterprise customer trust: security questionnaires, compliance (SOC 2), and customer-facing security needs.
- Partner closely with product and infra engineering to embed security into how we ship.

## Requirements
- 4-5+ years of hands-on information security experience.
- Experience at a startup or early-stage company; comfort with ambiguity, autonomy, and high ownership.
- Strong fundamentals in application and/or cloud security (AWS/GCP).
- Pragmatic judgment — able to prioritize risk and do more with less.
- Clear communication and a collaborative, low-ego style.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience securing AI agents / LLM systems or governing AI agent use within an organization.
- Enterprise compliance experience (SOC 2, ISO 27001).

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