Remote Security Engineer - AppSec & AI Security

Openkrill; United States; Remote; USD 101,000 - 146,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote (Europe)

Direct collaboration with engineering

Hands-on, non-advisory role

Security ownership & impact

Job summary

Openkrill is seeking a Security Engineer to own security operations across AppSec, GRC, and AI security for a fast-growing AI platform serving millions of users. You will review code, coordinate pen tests, and lead risk management while working closely with engineering leadership in a fully remote setup.

You will handle security monitoring, governance, and incident readiness, with a strong emphasis on end-to-end ownership in a dynamic, scale-up environment.

Qualifications

• 2–3+ years hands-on security engineering experience, with scale-up exposure.
• Strong application security experience, including code reviews and remediation.
• Experience conducting or coordinating security audits and penetration tests.
• Comfortable coding and working directly with Git/GitHub.
• Practical scripting or automation skills, ideally Python or Bash.
• Previous experience within an AI company or a scale-up with 50+ employees.
• Sound understanding of security governance, risk assessment and prioritisation.
• Ability to independently identify, investigate and resolve security issues, and to take end-to-end ownership in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent English communication skills.
• Based in Europe, with approximately 80% overlap with CET working hours.
• Comfortable with occasional evening/weekend security monitoring.
• Fully comfortable working with adult/NSFW content as part of daily responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Application security: review code, fix vulnerabilities, coordinate external pen tests and audits.
• Governance, risk and compliance: maintain risk register, assess exposure, support audit follow-up, prioritise fixes by risk and business impact.
• Monitoring and awareness: watch alerts and threats, run phishing simulations, and provide occasional evening and weekend cover.
• IT security and access: onboarding/offboarding, device security (MDM) and access permissions, and tightening internal controls.
• AI security: track risks to generative AI platforms and vulnerabilities in third-party AI providers.

Skills

Application security

Vulnerability remediation

Security audits

Penetration testing

Scripting (Python,Bash)

AI security

Governance & risk

English communication

Git/GitHub

Tools

Git/GitHub

Job description

Openkrill is seeking a Security Engineer to own security operations across AppSec, GRC, and AI security for a fast-growing AI platform serving millions of users. You will review code, coordinate pen tests, and lead risk management while working closely with engineering leadership in a fully remote setup.

You will handle security monitoring, governance, and incident readiness, with a strong emphasis on end-to-end ownership in a dynamic, scale-up environment.