Confidential company, Engineering
Security Engineer at well-funded enterprise AI operations platform
- Location
- New York City, United States
- Compensation
- Not Disclosed
Looking to be the first security hire at a fast-growing, well-funded startup? This role offers the unique chance to shape the security posture of an AI-native operations platform from the ground up. You’ll tackle modern challenges like securing LLM-based agents and building automated vulnerability pipelines while working directly with a high-caliber engineering team.
If you’re a pragmatic engineer who loves to code and wants to own the security roadmap for a platform used by hundreds of global enterprises, this is the perfect opportunity to make a massive impact.
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Role overview
As the first dedicated security hire, you will own product security for a high-growth SaaS platform utilizing AI to streamline complex business operations. You’ll lead threat modeling, secure design reviews, and incident response while building automated security pipelines. This role is pivotal in protecting sensitive data across diverse integrations and AI-driven workflows.
About the company
Well-funded enterprise AI operations platform
What you will do
- Lead full-lifecycle product security including threat modeling, secure design reviews, and vulnerability management for SaaS and AI products.
- Build and maintain automated CI/CD security pipelines, focusing on dependency patching and adversarial detection for AI components.
- Partner directly with engineering teams to secure complex third-party integrations and internal workforce automation workflows.
Who this is a fit for
- 3+ years of application security experience with a strong foundation in writing and reviewing production-level code in Go, Python, or TypeScript.
- Pragmatic approach to risk management, capable of balancing rapid product shipping with robust security protections in a cloud-native environment.
- Proficiency with AI tools and a deep understanding of how they impact threat models, including experience securing LLM-based applications.
Why this role is remarkable
- Opportunity to build a security function from the ground up as the first dedicated specialist in a high-ownership environment.
- Backed by top-tier venture capital firms and serving hundreds of global enterprise customers with sensitive data needs.
- Solve cutting-edge security challenges involving customer-facing AI agents, automated code generation tools, and multi-tenant cloud infrastructure.
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