Security Engineer

Xcede; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Xcede is seeking a security engineer with deep endpoint expertise to help enterprises govern AI activity across employee and developer environments. You will design and implement security controls for AI agents on enterprise endpoints and collaborate with client security teams to map risks and enforce policies.

Ideal candidates have 2–5 years in software or security engineering, hands-on endpoint experience, and a background in EDR/XDR, SIEM, and security tooling.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of experience across software engineering and/or enterprise security engineering.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of enterprise endpoint environments.
• Experience with endpoint security, EDR/XDR, secure web gateways, DLP, endpoint management, or adjacent technologies.
• Experience working with endpoint telemetry, detections, policies, and security controls.
• Ability to write code and build integrations or security tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design and build security capabilities for governing AI agents operating across enterprise endpoints.
• Develop detections and enforcement policies for risky or unauthorized agent behavior.
• Integrate with existing endpoint security, EDR, identity, SIEM, and SOC infrastructure.
• Work with customer security teams to map endpoint-level AI risks and attack paths.
• Analyze endpoint telemetry and translate signals into actionable security controls.
• Tune policies around customer-specific environments and regulatory requirements.
• Troubleshoot integrations with existing enterprise endpoint and security technologies.
• Support security investigations and incidents involving AI agents or endpoint activity.
• Feed customer requirements and emerging attack patterns directly into product development.

Skills

Endpoint security

Software engineering

EDR/XDR

SIEM/SOC

Security tooling

Tools

EDR/XDR

Secure Web Gateway

DLP

Endpoint management

Job description

Well-funded AI Infrastructure Start-up - Endpoint Security Engineer

They are building the runtime control plane for the agentic enterprise, giving organizations the visibility, security, and governance needed to deploy AI agents safely at scale. The platform helps enterprises discover and monitor agents, understand their behavior, enforce security policies, and control how they interact with models, applications, data, and employee environments.

We’re looking for a security engineer with deep endpoint expertise to help enterprises govern AI activity across employee and developer environments.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build security capabilities for governing AI agents operating across enterprise endpoints.
• Develop detections and enforcement policies for risky or unauthorized agent behavior.
• Integrate with existing endpoint security, EDR, identity, SIEM, and SOC infrastructure.
• Work with customer security teams to map endpoint-level AI risks and attack paths.
• Analyze endpoint telemetry and translate signals into actionable security controls.
• Tune policies around customer-specific environments and regulatory requirements.
• Troubleshoot integrations with existing enterprise endpoint and security technologies.
• Support security investigations and incidents involving AI agents or endpoint activity.
• Feed customer requirements and emerging attack patterns directly into product development.

What We’re Looking For

• 2–5 years of experience across software engineering and/or enterprise security engineering.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of enterprise endpoint environments.
• Experience with endpoint security, EDR/XDR, secure web gateways, DLP, endpoint management, or adjacent technologies.
• Experience working with endpoint telemetry, detections, policies, and security controls.
• Ability to write code and build integrations or security tooling.
• Familiarity with SIEM/SOC and incident-response workflows.
• Comfortable working directly with enterprise security teams and solving ambiguous production problems.