AI Security Engineer: Secure APIs & Microservices

EPAM Systems, Inc.; México; Remote; MXN 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

EPAM Systems, Inc. in Mexico is seeking a Senior AI Security Engineer to secure enterprise APIs across web and mobile, using AI-driven detection, investigation, and governance.

You will partner with engineering and business stakeholders to harden APIs, improve observability, and resolve security events. Responsibilities include implementing security controls for web apps, APIs, microservices, and AI-enabled services; designing observability for REST and GraphQL APIs; leveraging AI to analyze

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience securing APIs, web applications, and service-to-service communications.
• Experience with microservices architectures, REST APIs, GraphQL, and event-driven systems.
• Strong stakeholder collaboration skills to work directly with application teams and business partners.
• Proven incident triage experience across security events and service-impacting issues.
• Hands-on observability experience with logs, traces, metrics, and event streams.
• Strong AI scripting and automation skills for detection, investigation, and remediation workflows.
• Advanced knowledge of GraphQL security and API abuse prevention techniques.
• Clear communication skills for translating risks and mitigation plans to technical and business audiences.
• Ability to document operational runbooks and troubleshooting procedures.
• Upper-Intermediate English proficiency (B2).

Responsibilities

• Implement security controls for web applications, APIs, microservices, and AI-enabled services.
• Design and implement observability for microservice REST and GraphQL APIs and end-to-end workflows.
• Leverage AI and automation to analyze telemetry, logs, security events, and traffic data to detect issues.
• Investigate and triage security and reliability events tied to configuration, agents, or integrations.
• Identify and mitigate risks from exposed endpoints and publicly accessible services.
• Coordinate with application teams, product owners, and stakeholders to resolve client-impacting issues.
• Communicate findings, risks, mitigation plans, and recovery status to technical and business audiences.
• Develop runbooks and troubleshooting procedures for recurring endpoint and API issues.

Skills

API security

AI scripting

Observability

GraphQL security

REST APIs

Microservices

Incident triage

Automation

Runbooks

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Grafana

Dynatrace

Splunk

Langfuse

Akamai Application Security

Job description

EPAM Systems, Inc. in Mexico is seeking a Senior AI Security Engineer to secure enterprise APIs across web and mobile, using AI-driven detection, investigation, and governance.

You will partner with engineering and business stakeholders to harden APIs, improve observability, and resolve security events. Responsibilities include implementing security controls for web apps, APIs, microservices, and AI-enabled services; designing observability for REST and GraphQL APIs; leveraging AI to analyze