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Security Engineer

New York City, NYFull-time2026-10-28 → 2026-11-09

Core

Lead application security across SaaS and AI products, establishing security practices, building tooling, and managing vulnerabilities from discovery to remediation.

Role type

Senior IC application security engineer (AI/ML focus)

Builds

Automated security controls, dependency-patching pipelines, adversarial detection for voice agents, and secure engineering workflows.

Domain

SaaS, AI/LLMs, Cloud Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

threat modeling, secure design reviews, vulnerability management, secrets management, CI/CD pipeline security, dynamic application security testing, incident response, secure coding training

Preferred skills

securing AI/ML applications (prompt injection, adversarial input), multi-tenant SaaS security, enterprise compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001), building security practices from scratch

Technologies

Go, Python, TypeScript, React, AWS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, Snowflake, Claude, GPT, Gemini

Responsibilities

Lead threat modeling and secure design reviews; Integrate and automate controls for secrets and dependency security; Establish code, dependency, and secrets scanning; Respond to security incidents; Develop secure design training; Partner on SOC 2 and assurance work; Shape the security team roadmap and hiring strategy.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC (first/early security hire)