# Senior Security Engineer

**Company:** [Giga](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/giga)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, California
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $210k – $350k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** Python, Django, FastAPI, TypeScript, Node.js, AWS, Kubernetes, Postgres, Terraform, Docker
**Posted:** 2026-02-20

> Builds security systems for AI agents platform handling sensitive customer data, including application security, access controls, and automated tooling. Requires 4+ years security engineering experience with strong coding skills across app, infra, and cloud security.

## Job Description

## What You'll Work On

- Application security: Securing the platform end-to-end, from the APIs our customers use to configure agents to the systems that handle real-time conversations and customer data
- Access controls and authorization: Building role-based access controls, permissions models, and audit logging so our enterprise customers can manage their teams with confidence
- Security tooling and automation: Building the infrastructure for vulnerability scanning, dependency auditing, secrets management, and automated detection so security scales with the team

## Tech Stack

**Backend:** Python (Django/FastAPI), TypeScript (Node.js)

**Infrastructure:** AWS, Modal, Kubernetes, Postgres

**Tooling:** Terraform, Docker, CI/CD pipelines

## You Might Be a Fit If You

- Have 4+ years of experience in security engineering, with a strong software engineering foundation
- Have secured production systems handling sensitive data and understand the difference between theoretical risks and real ones
- Can write production-quality code, not just review it: you'll build security tooling and features, not just file tickets
- Think about security as an enabler, not a blocker: you make it easy for other engineers to do the right thing
- Are comfortable across application security, infrastructure security, and cloud security
- Are excited about the unique security challenges of AI agents: prompt injection, data leakage, and problems that don't have established playbooks yet

## Perks & Benefits

- Catered lunch daily
- Dinner stipend
- $150/month wellness benefit (gym, fitness classes, mental health)
- 401(k) plan
- Commuter benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage

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