Exa
Software Engineer, Security
$180K–$350K
San Francisco, California · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Visa sponsorship
- Sponsorship available for international candidates (e.g., STEM OPT, OPT, H1B, O1, E3).
About the job
Build and maintain security protections for Exa’s infrastructure, services, and systems while supporting fast product development.
What you'll do
- Build secure infrastructure, including secrets management and rotation across services, training jobs, and GPU clusters.
- Monitor APIs, internal services, and customer usage for anomalous behavior; create incident response playbooks and lead incident handling.
- Support security hardening, compliance efforts, and secure engineering workflows.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining secure infrastructure.
- Knowledge of cloud security fundamentals, including multi-account AWS permissions and architectures, IAM design, and secure CI/CD pipelines.
- Fluency in secrets management, key management, and certificate lifecycles.
- Experience owning compliance efforts such as HIPPA or SOC2.
Pay
$180K – $350K USD base salary
Tools
AWS, IAM, CI/CD, VPN
AI focus
Consider security risks introduced by new technologies, including AI coding agents.
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