Staff+ Security Software Engineer
Code
Castro Valley, United States of America
2 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Senior Compensation
$ 260KJob location
Castro Valley, United States of America
Tech stack
Java
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Azure
C++
Computer Security
Python
Security Software
Systems Integration
Software Security
Multi-Cloud
Kubernetes
Production Code
Machine Learning Operations
Virtual Agents
Software Coding
Go
Job description
We're partnered with a groundbreaking AI-Native start-up that is looking to hire its Founding Security Software Engineer. This person will lead this greenfield opportunity, which includes security design, automated defenses, secure AI/ML pipelines, and championing GitOps Security.
Requirements
- AppSec/ InfraSec experience: 6+ years in application or infrastructure security within a high-growth or fast-paced environment.
- Hands-on Coding experience: Able to write and ship production code in Python, Go, C++, or Java
- Multi-cloud experience: Deep expertise securing AWS environments; experience with GCP or Azure is a strong plus.
- Offensive Mindset: Ability to think like an attacker to anticipate risks, paired with a collaborative approach to helping engineering teams remediate them.
- Operational Mindset: Experience with modern observability practices and a "you build it, you run it" mentality toward security infrastructure.
- Agentic Security Tooling: Experience integrating agentic AI workflows into the developer lifecycle to deliver real-time security feedback, enabling a "secure-by-design" approach as code is written.
Nice to Haves
- AI/ML Security: Experience securing AI/ML workloads, including defending against prompt injection attacks or protecting model weights.
- Kubernetes Mastery: Strong K8s (EKS/GKE) experience, particularly around multi-tenant security and resource isolation.