Drimva

Fortinet

Principal Agent Security Engineer

Sunnyvale, CA · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026

Experience
8+ years.
Education
Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.

About the job

Build and operate enterprise AI security solutions, designing security controls for agentic AI systems and leading their architecture and product development.

What you'll do

  • Design and implement security controls for agentic AI systems, and develop tools and environments for customer evaluations, deployments, troubleshooting, and integration.
  • Provide technical leadership across product development and drive technical strategy, architecture, and product roadmap.
  • Own production services, improving reliability, performance, and security through troubleshooting and ongoing hardening.

What they ask for

  • Strong software engineering skills in Python or Go, or a systems language such as Rust or C/C++.
  • Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8+ years of experience building and operating production backend services, including architecture ownership of security-critical and highly available systems.
  • Strong system design and architecture skills, with sound technical trade-off judgment across security, scalability, reliability, and performance.

Nice to have

  • Experience with LLM and agent security, including prompt injection, tool poisoning, jailbreaks, and agent security controls.
  • Hands-on experience designing and building agentic AI systems, including MCP, A2A, tool-calling, and agent frameworks; or professional experience in cybersecurity domains.

Tools

Python, Go, Rust, C/C++, MCP, A2A

AI focus

Build AI security solutions and design controls for agentic AI systems; preferred experience includes LLM and agent security and agentic AI architecture.

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