Engineering Manager: Secure Autonomy & Platform

Anysphere; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Anysphere is seeking a senior security engineering leader to chart the path from supervised agents to trusted autonomous ones. You will define security primitives and lead a team to build them, architect isolation for running in customers’ codebases, and implement identity, permissions, and policy enforcement to ensure secure tool execution.

You will hire and coach a high-performing team while staying technically close to the work, writing and reviewing code where useful and keeping execution

Qualifications

• Led engineering teams shipping production systems with high security, reliability, or platform stakes.
• Viewed security as enabler of product capability, not only restriction.
• Understanding of modern application security, authorization, tenancy, identity, secrets, data isolation, and secure-by-default platform design.

Responsibilities

• Chart the path from supervised agents to trusted autonomous ones: define security primitives and lead the team that builds them.
• Engineer the isolation that makes Cursor safe to run inside customers’ codebases.
• Build authority infrastructure: identity, scoped permissions, policy enforcement, and secure tool execution.

Skills

Security leadership

Security architecture

Product and systems judgment

AI agents security

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Anysphere is seeking a senior security engineering leader to chart the path from supervised agents to trusted autonomous ones. You will define security primitives and lead a team to build them, architect isolation for running in customers’ codebases, and implement identity, permissions, and policy enforcement to ensure secure tool execution.

You will hire and coach a high-performing team while staying technically close to the work, writing and reviewing code where useful and keeping execution