Founding Security Engineer - AI-Driven Fintech Platform

present of AI; Washington; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

present of AI is seeking a hands-on security generalist to work with engineers to embed security into how products are designed and shipped, focusing on cloud and Kubernetes environments, detection rules, and vulnerability management from finding through fix.

The role fits the AI era by enabling safe AI adoption in fintech serving government and utility clients, with opportunities to automate routine tasks and practice security automation with Python.

Qualifications

• Several years of focused security work.
• Comfort reading and changing code.
• Experience securing cloud environments and Kubernetes.
• Ability to write and tune detection rules.
• Run vulnerability management from finding through fix.
• Collaborate with engineers to embed security in product design and shipping.

Responsibilities

• Work with engineers to build security into product design and shipping.
• Write and tune detection rules.
• Secure cloud and Kubernetes environments.
• Run vulnerability management from finding through fix.
• Automate routine scanning and alert triage where possible.

Skills

Security engineering

Cloud security

Kubernetes security

Vulnerability management

Code reading

Detection rules

Tools

Terraform

GCP

CI/CD tooling

Python

Job description

present of AI is seeking a hands-on security generalist to work with engineers to embed security into how products are designed and shipped, focusing on cloud and Kubernetes environments, detection rules, and vulnerability management from finding through fix.

The role fits the AI era by enabling safe AI adoption in fintech serving government and utility clients, with opportunities to automate routine tasks and practice security automation with Python.