# Security Engineer

**Company:** [Decagon](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/decagon)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $200k – $330k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** GCP, Terraform, Semgrep, Codeql, CI/CD, SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, Authentication, Authorization
**Posted:** 2026-04-10

> Build and scale security foundations for Decagon's AI customer experience platform, implementing controls, tooling, detection pipelines, and partnering with engineering teams. Requires 3+ years security engineering with strong coding skills and cloud experience, ideally Google Cloud; onsite in San Francisco.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Implement security controls across our agent platform, covering application security, infrastructure security
- Build security tooling and automation, including automated remediation pipelines, detection systems, and testing frameworks integrated into CI/CD workflows
- Partner with engineering teams to design and review authentication systems, secrets management, and access controls
- Create detection pipelines that scale with millions of daily AI agent interactions
- Contribute to security incidents affecting operations, supporting rapid resolution while maintaining service availability

## Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in security engineering, with strong software engineering fundamentals
- Familiarity with application security concepts including authentication, authorization, vulnerability assessment, and secure development practices
- Ability to write production-quality code; you can build the tools and automation the team needs, not just identify problems
- Experience with cloud security fundamentals, ideally **Google Cloud**
- Exposure to enterprise security requirements such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, or GDPR
- Natural curiosity about new technologies and approaches to security problems

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience building developer tools, security automation, or remediation pipelines
- Background with static analysis tools (**Semgrep**, **CodeQL**) or vulnerability management platforms
- Familiarity with securing AI/ML applications, including awareness of risks like prompt injection and adversarial inputs
- Experience with infrastructure as code (**Terraform**) and modern cloud development practices
- Comfortable working across the entire stack to solve problems

## Compensation
**$200K – $330K + Equity**

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