Serval
Security Engineer, Application
$200K–$325K
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jun 23, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years in cybersecurity.
About the job
Leads Serval’s application and product security program, building secure development practices, vulnerability management, and protections for its agentic AI platform.
What you'll do
- Design and operate secure SDLC, threat modeling, security reviews, and vulnerability remediation across the platform.
- Build and mentor a team covering product security, secure software development, and vulnerability management.
- Improve security tooling and address risks in agentic workflows, including prompt injection, unsafe tool use, and data exfiltration.
What they ask for
- 10+ years in cybersecurity, with deep application security, secure software development, and vulnerability-management expertise.
- Experience building and leading application/product security, secure-SDLC, and vulnerability-management functions.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to read, write, and review production code.
- Expertise in application security tooling and primitives, and secure cloud-native and distributed-systems architecture.
Nice to have
- Excitement about security challenges unique to AI agents.
Pay
$200K – $325K USD base salary
Tools
SAST, DAST, SCA, CI/CD
AI focus
Secures agentic AI workflows against prompt injection, unsafe tool use, data exfiltration, and abuse of autonomous actions; uses Serval’s agents to address security problems.
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