Surge AI
Software Engineer, Security
United States - Remote · Remote · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years building and shipping production software, or 5+ years with exceptional experience.
- Education
- CS degree from a top school or equivalent STEM background.
About the job
Own and implement security across Surge AI’s product, infrastructure, corporate systems, and IT while contributing to backend engineering.
What you'll do
- Fix authentication, authorization, secrets-management, and permissioning issues; harden internal tools and admin systems.
- Conduct security reviews, respond to incidents, and build security tooling across product, infrastructure, and corporate environments.
- Contribute to core backend engineering alongside the engineering team.
What they ask for
- Strong software engineering skills, including meeting the company’s coding and system-design bar.
- Competence across product, infrastructure, and corporate security.
- Generalist approach and ability to independently address ambiguous problems without a fixed roadmap.
- CS degree from a top school or equivalent STEM background.
Nice to have
- Early-stage startup experience, ideally as one of the first security hires.
- Experience with Python or Ruby on Rails.
Tools
Python, Ruby on Rails
AI focus
The role owns company security at an AI company and works in an environment where AI is changing how security is done; no specific AI development duties are stated.
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