Remote Senior Security Engineer - End-to-End Platform

Surge AI; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Surge AI is seeking a senior Software Engineer, Security to own security end-to-end across product, infrastructure, and corporate systems. This hands-on role fixes problems directly rather than handing them off and collaborates with engineers and researchers on the frontier of AI.

You’ll tackle authentication, key management, incident response, and tooling with a generalist mindset. Remote-friendly, with travel to meet teammates as needed.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience building and shipping production software with security emphasis.
• Strong software engineering skills across backend systems and services.
• Experience owning security across product, infrastructure and corporate.
• A generalist who can own a little of everything without a fixed roadmap.
• Early-stage startup experience preferred, ideally as a first security hire.
• Experience with Python or Ruby on Rails is a plus.
• CS degree from a top school or equivalent STEM background.

Responsibilities

• Fix authentication and authorization issues across the platform.
• Improve how we manage keys and secrets across projects.
• Harden internal tooling and bring off-band tools built by other teams safely into the platform.
• Refactor permissioning and pull sensitive capabilities out of our admin systems.
• Contribute to core backend engineering work alongside the engineering team.
• Own security reviews, incident response, and tooling across product, infrastructure, and corporate as the business needs.

Skills

Security engineering

End-to-end ownership

Backend systems

Python

Ruby on Rails

Startup experience

Authentication/Authorization

Systems design

Education

CS degree or STEM background

Tools

Python

Ruby on Rails

Job description

Surge AI is seeking a senior Software Engineer, Security to own security end-to-end across product, infrastructure, and corporate systems. This hands-on role fixes problems directly rather than handing them off and collaborates with engineers and researchers on the frontier of AI.

You’ll tackle authentication, key management, incident response, and tooling with a generalist mindset. Remote-friendly, with travel to meet teammates as needed.