Clay
Security Engineer
$225K–$300K
New York +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Apr 16, 2026
- Location
- New York
San Francisco
About the job
Build and scale Clay’s security foundations through production engineering, security tooling, automation, and cloud or application security work.
What you'll do
- Build security tooling, automation, detection systems, and secure-by-default frameworks.
- Implement AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, code review, threat detection, and remediation workflows.
- Partner with Infrastructure and Product Engineering, owning security projects from design through rollout and measurement.
What they ask for
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping production systems.
- Deep expertise in either cloud security or application security, with working knowledge of the adjacent domain.
- Ability to translate security risks into engineering work and ship solutions.
- Comfort with ambiguity and building from first principles.
Nice to have
- Interest in using modern automation and AI to scale security operations while maintaining engineering rigor.
Pay
$225K – $300K USD base salary
Tools
Terraform, AWS Config, AWS Security Hub, Claude Mythos
AI focus
Use frontier AI models and security agents for vulnerability discovery, AI-generated code review, contextual detection, code scanning, fix proposals, and—in some cases—autonomous security patch deployment.
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