Senior Principal Engineer - Agentic Security (all genders)
Core
Define safe, trustworthy, and well-governed agentic AI at Zalando, operating between engineering teams and the security organization to ensure security-by-design for autonomous systems.
Role type
Senior Principal Security Engineer (Agentic AI)
Builds
Security architecture, standards, and guardrails for agentic and AI-powered systems across engineering teams.
Domain
AI/ML security, Agentic Systems, Application Security
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Security architecture, AI/ML and agentic systems security, IAM, cloud security, containerization, secure software development, threat modeling, risk assessment, prompt injection mitigation, agent identity and authorization, technical leadership, cross-functional collaboration.
Preferred skills
Experience in large-scale engineering projects, understanding of business context and customer problems.
Technologies
LLMs, function calling, guardrails, AI regulation frameworks, Zalando Tech Radar.
Responsibilities
Drive security architecture and standards for agentic systems; lead design of agentic identity broker; evolve threat modeling for prompt injection and data exfiltration; partner with Legal/Compliance on AI governance; mentor principal engineers; consult with cross-functional teams on security integration; track emerging AI security trends.
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with strategic influence
