Principal AI Security Engineer & Backend Architect

Fortinet; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 212,000 - 259,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life & disability

401(k)

11 paid holidays

Vacation time

Sick time

Comprehensive leave

Job summary

Fortinet is seeking a Principal Agent Security Engineer to build AI security solutions for enterprise customers. You will design and implement security controls for agentic AI systems and provide technical leadership across product development to define architecture and deliver secure, scalable solutions.

You will own production services, drive architecture decisions, and contribute to the product roadmap while researching emerging security trends.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building and operating production backend services.
• Strong system design and architecture skills.

Responsibilities

• Build AI security solutions for enterprise customers.
• Design and implement security controls for agentic AI systems.
• Provide technical leadership across product development, working closely with Product, Engineering, and QA teams to define architecture, drive technical decisions, and deliver secure and scalable solutions.
• Develop pre-sales and post-sales tools and environments to support customer evaluations, deployments, troubleshooting, and integration.
• Own and operate production services, including troubleshooting, performance optimization, reliability improvements, and ongoing hardening of security-critical systems.
• Research emerging technologies and security trends to identify new opportunities and develop innovative solutions.
• Drive technical strategy and product roadmap, including new feature design, architecture evolution.

Skills

Python

Go

System design

Leadership

Debugging

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Job description

Fortinet is seeking a Principal Agent Security Engineer to build AI security solutions for enterprise customers. You will design and implement security controls for agentic AI systems and provide technical leadership across product development to define architecture and deliver secure, scalable solutions.

You will own production services, drive architecture decisions, and contribute to the product roadmap while researching emerging security trends.