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# Senior Security Engineer

- **Company:** Orkes Inc.
- **Location:** Santa Clara, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $240,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Software System Penetration Testing, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Computer Programming, Continuous Integration, Identity and Access Management, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Python (Programming Language), Open Source Technology, Systems Development Life Cycle, Role-Based Access Control, Software Engineering, Scripting, Multi-Cloud, Kubernetes, Production Code, Virtual Agents, Static Application Security Testing, Dynamic Application Security Testing
- **Published:** October 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/senior-security-engineer-santa-clara-ca--9d2fb026-0ae5-405d-8a71-5797eb8e2084

## About the Role

Open Source, Operating Systems, Business Processes, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agents, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Cloud Computing, Python Programming/Scripting Language, Java, Establish Priorities, * 7+ years of experience

 * Ships fixes and platform guardrails in production code (Java/Python/TS) - a doer, not just an identifier
 * Owns the security roadmap - turns the threat landscape into a prioritized, roadmapped program for the team
 * First responder for Penetration testing, Security Audits, and CVEs
 * Multi-cloud security architecture (AWS/Azure/GCP + self-hosted) - IAM, network, KMS, tenant isolation
 * Designs RBAC/authZ as a system across product and platform
 * Experience with Security testing and analyzing in CI/CD (SAST/DAST/SCA as a paved road)
 * Threat models real systems and turns findings into strategy
 * AI-coding experience - look for those who prescribe/tell AI exactly what to do vs those who ask AI to make judgment calls and decisions

Nice-to-haves: OSCP/CKS; K8s (Kubernetes) security; compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP); detection engineering, Red-team experience

## Description

As a Senior Security Engineer at Orkes, you will work at the frontier of agentic workflow development, building the security foundation that defines how enterprises safely workflows with AI agent interactions. You will own the security roadmap for our multi-cloud control plane and customer-hosted deployments, architecting critical guardrails, ranging from IAM and RBAC to secure agent-tool integration, that make complex workflows production-ready. This is a unique opportunity to build mission-critical infrastructure ensuring security is not just a checkbox, but fully integrated into our SDLC and cloud control plane so that our customers can confidently automate their most sensitive business processes.