Orkes
Senior Security Engineer
$180K–$240K
In Office - Santa Clara, CA +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 3, 2026
- Location
- In Office - Santa Clara, CA
Santa Clara, California, United States - Experience
- 7+ years.
About the job
Build and own security for Orkes’ multi-cloud control plane and customer-hosted deployments, including guardrails for enterprise workflows involving AI agents.
What you'll do
- Own the security roadmap and turn threat findings into a prioritized program.
- Build production security fixes and guardrails, including IAM, RBAC, authorization, and tenant isolation.
- Respond to penetration tests, security audits, and CVEs; integrate security testing into CI/CD.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of experience.
- Production coding experience in Java, Python, or TS.
- Multi-cloud security architecture across AWS, Azure, GCP, and self-hosted deployments.
- Experience with IAM, network security, KMS, tenant isolation, RBAC/authZ, security testing in CI/CD, and threat modeling.
Nice to have
- OSCP/CKS; Kubernetes security; compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP).
- Detection engineering or red-team experience.
Pay
$180,000–$240,000 USD base salary; plus generous equity (amount not stated).
Tools
Java, Python, TS, AWS, Azure, GCP, KMS, Kubernetes
AI focus
Secure AI-agent workflows and agent-tool integration; the posting also asks for AI-coding experience focused on giving AI explicit instructions rather than delegating judgment or decisions.
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