Security Engineer — AI-Driven Web & Cloud Security

Fuel Talent; Bellevue, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Fuel Talent partners with a venture-backed AI startup in Bellevue, Washington, to hire a Security Engineer who will help build and strengthen its security infrastructure for customer-facing applications. This hands-on role offers meaningful ownership over security architecture, tooling, and processes.

You will design monitoring, identify vulnerabilities, and collaborate with engineering leadership to scale security practices as the company grows, with opportunities to leverage AI tools to boost

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in application security, vulnerability detection, and remediation.
• Strong software engineering background with experience securing modern web applications.
• Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, React, SQL databases or similar technologies.
• Understanding of cloud security, secure development practices, and security automation.
• Familiarity with AI technologies and modern development tools.
• Experience securing production, customer-facing software.
• Ability to work independently and thrive in a fast-paced startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement security monitoring, scanning, and threat detection systems.
• Identify, investigate, and remediate application and infrastructure vulnerabilities.
• Build reusable security tools and components for engineering teams.
• Establish security best practices across the software development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with developers to improve application security and reduce risk.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering efficiency.

Skills

Application security

Vulnerability detection

Remediation

Software engineering

Web applications security

JavaScript/TypeScript

Node.js

React

SQL databases

Cloud security

Security automation

AI technologies

Job description

Fuel Talent partners with a venture-backed AI startup in Bellevue, Washington, to hire a Security Engineer who will help build and strengthen its security infrastructure for customer-facing applications. This hands-on role offers meaningful ownership over security architecture, tooling, and processes.

You will design monitoring, identify vulnerabilities, and collaborate with engineering leadership to scale security practices as the company grows, with opportunities to leverage AI tools to boost