Town
Security Engineer
$250K–$300K
San Francisco +1 · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 19, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
NYC - Experience
- Extensive experience in security engineering; no number of years stated.
About the job
Own end-to-end security for Town’s AI assistant, agent actions, data pipeline, and infrastructure, while establishing security practices that support product development.
What you'll do
- Secure the assistant and agent action surface; threat-model autonomous behavior and build guardrails.
- Protect user data and harden cloud infrastructure and third-party OAuth integrations.
- Build the secure development lifecycle and run incident response.
What they ask for
- Extensive security engineering experience with depth in application and/or infrastructure security.
- Ability to read and write production code.
- Experience securing a multi-tenant SaaS product handling sensitive user data at scale.
- Practical knowledge of cloud security (AWS and/or GCP), authn/authz, secrets, and encryption.
Pay
$250K – $300K (base salary)
Tools
AWS, GCP, Google, Slack, CRM
AI focus
Threat-model autonomous agent behavior, including prompt injection and tool misuse, and build guardrails to contain risks when agents access sensitive data and take external actions.
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