Remote AI Security Engineer

NerdWallet; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Industry-leading medical, dental, and vision health care

Flexible Vacation Time Off

Paid sabbatical after 5 years

401K with 4% company match

Wellness stipend and equipment stipend

Job summary

NerdWallet is looking for a talented Security Software Engineer focused on AI and Automation. This role involves designing AI-powered security systems and ensuring secure software development across the engineering organization.

The ideal candidate should have 3+ years of experience in software or security engineering, strong skills in Python or Go, and a genuine interest in AI and its applications in security. The position offers remote work options for candidates based in the U.S.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering or security engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in Python or Go for building production-grade backend services.
• Experience building and maintaining backend services including REST APIs.
• Working knowledge of application security concepts.
• Hands-on experience building AI-powered systems using LLM APIs.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with security engineering and infrastructure teams.
• Build automation and AI-powered solutions to improve security.
• Take ownership of security engineering initiatives.
• Support incident response and contribute security engineering expertise.

Skills

Python

Go

AI-powered systems

Application security

REST APIs

Distributed systems

Cloud services

Security engineering

Job description

NerdWallet is looking for a talented Security Software Engineer focused on AI and Automation. This role involves designing AI-powered security systems and ensuring secure software development across the engineering organization.

The ideal candidate should have 3+ years of experience in software or security engineering, strong skills in Python or Go, and a genuine interest in AI and its applications in security. The position offers remote work options for candidates based in the U.S.