Edge Security Engineer - AI-Driven API Defense (Remote)

VulnU; California; Remote; USD 218,000 - 327,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Medical insurance

Flexible time off

Retirement savings plans

Job summary

Block, Inc. is seeking a Senior Network Edge Security Engineer to protect API traffic at the edge using WAFs, bot vendors, and CDN-native tools. You'll build scalable infrastructure and a near-real-time data pipeline to surface security insights and respond quickly to threats.

You will collaborate with multiple engineering and operations teams, contribute to ML labeling, and develop AI-powered defenses across Cloudflare/Fastly and AWS ecosystems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software or security engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Respond to and mitigate threats at the network edge using WAF rules and bot vendors.
• Build and maintain infrastructure for inventory of network edge security posture.
• Develop near-real-time streaming analytics data pipeline and applications.
• Contribute to labeling and ML model development.
• Manage build, deploy, and production monitoring workflows.
• Evaluate integrations with vendor systems and in-house solutions.
• Develop AI-driven capabilities to classify and mitigate abusive traffic.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

TypeScript

Python

SQL

Spark

Cloudflare

Fastly

AWS

Snowflake

Databricks

Datadog

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Snowflake

MySQL

DynamoDB

Databricks

Datadog

Terraform

Job description

Block, Inc. is seeking a Senior Network Edge Security Engineer to protect API traffic at the edge using WAFs, bot vendors, and CDN-native tools. You'll build scalable infrastructure and a near-real-time data pipeline to surface security insights and respond quickly to threats.

You will collaborate with multiple engineering and operations teams, contribute to ML labeling, and develop AI-powered defenses across Cloudflare/Fastly and AWS ecosystems.