Founding Security Engineer — AI Detection & Response

Socket.dev; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful founding-stage equity

Exceptional compensation

Job summary

Asymptote is building the AI Detection & Response layer for the agentic enterprise. We’re seeking a Founding Security Engineer to help design the security infrastructure, telemetry, and detections for a new security category.

You’ll own major parts of the product from day one and work directly with the founders. This role focuses on building scalable security platforms, modeling attacker behavior, and shipping production-grade detections across cloud and developer environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in security engineering, detection engineering, or related fields.
• Strong software engineering skills and production systems experience.
• Deep understanding of identity, authentication, authorization, networks, cloud infrastructure, endpoints, or application security.
• Experience working with security telemetry and turning large volumes of events into useful security signals.
• Ability to think adversarially and understand how attackers abuse complex systems.
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems, data pipelines, or security infrastructure in production.

Responsibilities

• Build the AI Detection & Response Platform.
• Design and build systems that ingest, normalize, and analyze high-volume AI agent activity.
• Develop the security primitives that turn raw agent telemetry into useful detections, investigations, and response actions.
• Build infrastructure that operates reliably across developer environments, CI/CD systems, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise AI deployments.
• Design systems that can reason about identities, tools, permissions, resources, and actions across complex agent workflows.
• Build World-Class Detections by translating emerging attack techniques into production-grade detections.
• Develop detections for prompt injection, tool abuse, privilege escalation, credential theft, data exfiltration, and other threats.
• Build behavioral detection systems that identify suspicious sequences of agent activity.

Skills

Security engineering

Detection engineering

Security infrastructure

Distributed systems

Adversarial thinking

Production systems

eBPF

Telemetry systems

Tools

eBPF

Telemetry

Job description

Asymptote is building the AI Detection & Response layer for the agentic enterprise. We’re seeking a Founding Security Engineer to help design the security infrastructure, telemetry, and detections for a new security category.

You’ll own major parts of the product from day one and work directly with the founders. This role focuses on building scalable security platforms, modeling attacker behavior, and shipping production-grade detections across cloud and developer environments.