Founding Principal, AI Security & Endpoint Platform

Medium; Vancouver (WA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Saviynt, a leading identity security platform, is building its AI Security team and seeks a founding member to design AI security for world‑leading enterprises. You will lead architecture for native endpoint agents across Windows, macOS, Linux and mentor engineers.

The role blends systems software engineering with AI‑assisted development, emphasizing PEDM policy enforcement, secure endpoint communication, and telemetry. Salary range $240k–$250k plus discretionary bonus.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of principal-level systems software engineering experience.
• Strong programming experience in C++, Rust, or Go.
• Deep knowledge of Windows, macOS, or Linux internals.
• Experience with endpoint security products (EDR/XDR/DLP) and PAM/PEDM.
• Experience with OS security, process management, filesystem monitoring, ETW or eBPF.
• Strong debugging and performance tuning skills.
• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools (Copilot, Claude Code, Windsurf, ChatGPT).
• Understanding of AI agents, LLMs, MCP, and modern AI architectures.
• Familiarity with AI SDLC best practices, CI/CD, observability, and secure coding.
• Strong leadership, design, and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Build native endpoint agents for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
• Develop the integrated privileged access client within the endpoint agent.
• Implement PEDM policy enforcement.
• Build secure communication between Endpoint Agents and Edge Backends.
• Develop local telemetry collection for applications, processes, services, users, and endpoint posture.
• Detect Shadow IT and unauthorized AI/automation agents on endpoints.
• Discover local resource access including filesystem, browser data, credentials, databases, network shares, APIs.
• Optimize agent performance, scalability, and resource utilization.
• Lead architecture and mentor engineers building endpoint platform capabilities.
• Leverage AI-assisted software development across the SDLC.
• Develop capabilities to discover and govern AI agents and workloads.
• Develop secure endpoint capabilities for AI-native environments.
• Apply AI SDLC best practices across development, testing, deployment, operations.

Skills

C++

Rust

Go

Windows internals

macOS internals

Linux internals

EDR/XDR

PAM/PEDM

AI tools

Leadership

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Claude Code

Windsurf

Cursor

ChatGPT

Job description

Saviynt, a leading identity security platform, is building its AI Security team and seeks a founding member to design AI security for world‑leading enterprises. You will lead architecture for native endpoint agents across Windows, macOS, Linux and mentor engineers.

The role blends systems software engineering with AI‑assisted development, emphasizing PEDM policy enforcement, secure endpoint communication, and telemetry. Salary range $240k–$250k plus discretionary bonus.