Senior Security Engineer – Platforms, AI

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Safeguard and fortify cloud infrastructure, applications, APIs, internal systems, and operational workflows.

• Establish and uphold security measures across production environments, CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and internal tools.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to address vulnerabilities and enhance secure development methodologies.

• Oversee encryption, secrets management, logging, monitoring, and access controls.

• Design and refine security architecture for cloud-native and distributed systems.

• Develop scalable security processes that are integrated into engineering and operational workflows.

• Identify, evaluate, prioritize, and resolve security vulnerabilities.

• Execute vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, adversarial testing, threat modeling, and manual security assessments.

• Coordinate remediation efforts and verify solutions.

• Protect AI-driven systems and automated agents from prompt injection, adversarial inputs, unauthorized actions, unsafe outputs, and data breaches.

• Create guardrails and validation layers for actions generated by AI.

• Monitor AI behavior for irregularities, abuse attempts, and unsafe decision-making.

• Enhance security monitoring, alerting, logging, and incident response processes.

• Investigate suspicious activities, anomalies, and potential security incidents.

• Lead or assist in incident response, root cause analysis, and remediation planning.

• Recommend and implement preventive measures post-incident or after security findings.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of practical experience in security engineering, infrastructure security, application security, DevSecOps, or offensive security.

• In-depth knowledge of the AWS ecosystem.

• Experience in identifying and remedying vulnerabilities in live production environments.

• Capability to lead projects, make informed decisions, and prioritize tasks in a dynamic setting.

• Excellent communication skills to articulate technical security issues to engineering stakeholders.

• Preference for candidates with experience securing AI/LLM-powered systems or automated agents.

• Familiarity with prompt injection attacks, adversarial AI techniques, AI guardrails, and behavioral anomaly detection is preferred.

• Experience with cloud security tools, SIEM and observability platforms, penetration testing tools, endpoint security solutions, and infrastructure-as-code security is preferred.

• Previous experience in high-growth startups, fintech, banking, or payments sectors is preferred.

• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, AWS Security Specialty, or similar are preferred.

• Must be able to work legally in the United States or Canada, with sponsorship status disclosed.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity opportunities.

• Unlimited paid time off (PTO).

• Flexible work schedule.

• Paid holidays.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• 100% remote-first work culture.

• Genuine opportunities for architecture ownership and technical leadership.