Security Engineer

Starburst; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock grants

Flexible PTO

Total Rewards program

Job summary

Starburst is seeking a Security Engineer II to advance its Application Security program. You will write production code, build automation, and integrate security checks into CI/CD pipelines while leveraging AI to scale security tasks.

The role emphasizes strong information security fundamentals, knowledge of OWASP Top 10/CWE, and collaboration with Engineering and Product. Growth into broader product security responsibilities is supported.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, MIS, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2–4 years of experience in security engineering, software engineering, or related technical role.
• Solid information security foundation with sound security tradeoffs.
• Strong understanding of application vulnerabilities and mitigation strategies (OWASP Top 10, CWE).
• Experience building automation and tooling, especially using AI, to solve real problems.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling, Git-based workflows, and modern development practices.
• Familiarity with cloud security concepts and hands-on experience with at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience in enterprise B2B software, self-managed and/or SaaS, is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build automation and tooling for the Application Security program, turning manual security work into automated systems powered by AI.
• Integrate security into the development lifecycle with automated checks in CI/CD pipelines.
• Support and extend the security stack (SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets scanning) and route findings to engineers.
• Apply AI to scale security work, prototyping AI-assisted triage, analysis, and remediation workflows.
• Support vulnerability management, triage, and fast, consistent routing of disclosures.
• Make sound security tradeoffs and help improve secure coding standards and playbooks.

Skills

Automation tooling

CI/CD

AI for security

Security fundamentals

Vulnerability management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

SAST

DAST

SCA

Secrets scanning

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Starburst delivers enterprise intelligence at scale by giving organizations secure, governed access to all their data, wherever it lives. Built for distributed data environments, Starburst helps enterprises power AI and analytics without the cost and complexity of traditional data consolidation. With open standards including Trino and Apache Iceberg, Starburst enables trusted access to complete enterprise context while helping organizations avoid vendor lock-in. Leading global enterprises trust Starburst to fuel AI, analytics, and enterprise intelligence. Learn more at starburst.ai .

About the role

As a Security Engineer II, you'll help advance Starburst's Application Security program by building the automation and tooling that allows a small team to secure a large engineering organization. You'll take security problems and turn them into reliable, automated systems, using AI where it adds leverage. This is a hands‑on engineering role: you'll write production code, integrate security checks into CI/CD pipelines, and build automation and guardrails the program depends on.

You don't need deep specialist expertise in vulnerability management or offensive security. What matters is a solid information security foundation, strong engineering skills, and the judgment to make sound security tradeoffs. This role offers room to grow your security depth and take on broader product security responsibilities over time.

You'll work closely with Engineering and Product.

As a Security Engineer at Starburst you will:

• Build automation and tooling for the Application Security program, turning manual, repetitive, or hard-to-scale security work into reliable automated systems, increasingly powered by AI.
• Integrate security into the development lifecycle, enabling automated security checks within CI/CD pipelines and building reusable guardrails and secure-by-default components.
• Support and extend our security stack (SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets scanning), connecting tools so findings reach the right engineering team quickly and helping developers interpret and remediate them.
• Apply AI to scale security work, prototyping and productionizing AI‑assisted workflows for triage, analysis, and remediation.
• Support vulnerability management operations, helping detect, triage, and route newly disclosed vulnerabilities, and making that process faster and more consistent.
• Make sound security tradeoffs and help improve secure coding standards, documentation, and remediation playbooks.

Some of the things we look for:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, or equivalent practical experience.
• 2–4 years of experience in security engineering, software engineering, or a related technical role.
• A solid foundation in information security fundamentals, with the judgment to make sound security tradeoffs.
• Strong understanding of application vulnerabilities and mitigation strategies (OWASP Top 10, CWE).
• Demonstrated experience building automation and tooling, especially using AI, to solve real problems.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling, Git-based workflows, and modern development practices.
• Familiarity with cloud security concepts and hands‑on experience with at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience in enterprise B2B software, self‑managed and/or SaaS, is a plus.

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