Remote Senior Cloud & AI Security Architect

robotsandpencils; United States; Remote; USD 77,000 - 106,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

robotsandpencils is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to shape the security direction of cloud applications and AI-enabled systems. The role covers security architecture, threat analysis, cloud controls, automation, detection, incident response, and protection of production AI workloads.

You will define security standards, lead threat modeling and reviews, and establish comprehensive cloud security controls.

Qualifications

• Extensive professional experience in security engineering.
• Secure cloud infrastructure, applications, APIs, and production services.
• Strong knowledge of threat modeling, identity, secrets management, encryption, and automation.
• Ability to translate security risks and tradeoffs for engineering, product, leadership, and other stakeholders.
• Ability to lead difficult technical problems independently while mentoring engineers and raising standards.
• Familiarity with AI/LLM security implications such as tool calling or multi-step agent workflows.

Responsibilities

• Define security architecture and engineering standards for web applications, APIs, cloud-native services, and complex production systems.
• Lead threat modeling, security design reviews, and risk prioritization across application and AI systems.
• Establish cloud security controls covering identity and access management, network security, secrets, encryption, and data protection.
• Integrate security automation, policy as code, and shift-left detection into CI/CD workflows.
• Lead detection engineering, security logging, and incident-response practices.
• Define protections for AI applications against prompt injection, data leakage, model abuse, and agent-related threats.

Skills

Security engineering

Threat modeling

Cloud security

Security automation

Leadership

AI/LLM security

Tools

IAM & encryption

Job description

robotsandpencils is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to shape the security direction of cloud applications and AI-enabled systems. The role covers security architecture, threat analysis, cloud controls, automation, detection, incident response, and protection of production AI workloads.

You will define security standards, lead threat modeling and reviews, and establish comprehensive cloud security controls.