Staff Application Security Engineer

What you'll do

• Set the Application Security team’s technical vision and establish secure standards and defaults across engineering.
• Secure AI/ML and agentic workflows and lead vulnerability discovery and offensive security testing.
• Partner with engineering teams on secure primitives, APIs, and microservices; mentor engineers and drive remediation.

What they ask for

• 8+ years in Application Security, Product Security, or software engineering focused on offensive and defensive application security.
• Technical leadership and mentorship on complex, multi-quarter security engineering initiatives.
• Hands-on AI security expertise, including agentic architectures, LLM gateways, and adversarial AI vectors.
• Experience with secure development lifecycles, threat modeling, cloud-native container security (AWS, Kubernetes), and proficiency in Python, Go, or similar languages.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kotlin, gRPC, GraphQL, Kubernetes, or building and scaling security teams.
• Cloud/distributed-systems security experience, security community contributions, bug bounty participation, or published AI security research.

Pay

$240,000 USD - $300,000 USD (base salary)

Tools

AWS, Kubernetes, Python, Go, Kotlin, gRPC, GraphQL

AI focus

Architect and secure AI/ML and agentic workflows, including mitigating prompt injection, model manipulation, and data poisoning; secure agentic architectures and LLM gateways and evaluate adversarial AI vectors.