Security engineer for AI agents

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

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first work

Job summary

Zencoder.ai is seeking a hands-on Senior or Staff Security Engineer to lead and own security across the company. You will work with ITOps, platform, and product engineers to improve security posture by embedding automated controls into workflows and testing them thoroughly.

The role requires deep expertise in application security, cloud security, and incident response, with experience in AI/LLM-enabled environments. Remote-first and equity are offered.

Qualifications

• Strong application security background with ability to spot exploitable flaws and fixes.
• Hands-on penetration testing across web apps, APIs, and cloud infra.
• Experience building detections and leading incident response.

Responsibilities

• Improve security posture without slowing delivery; automate controls into workflows.
• Test controls, address critical risks, drive fixes to completion.
• Find vulnerabilities through code review, pen tests, and red-team exercises; harden infra and delivery pipelines.

Skills

Application security

Penetration testing

Cloud security

Incident response

Code review

AI/LLM security

Tools

AWS

GCP

Kubernetes

Job description

Описание:

At Zencoder.ai, we build and orchestrate AI agents that ship real work - code, research, operations, and more. What started as developer tooling is becoming a platform where people and agents collaborate across knowledge work tasks. The Opportunity We're looking for a hands-on Senior or Staff Security Engineer to lead and own security across the company.

Задачи:

You'll work closely with our ITOps, platform and product engineers. Your job is to improve our security posture without slowing delivery: build automated controls into existing workflows rather than rely on slow, blocking manual AppSec reviews. You'll test whether those controls hold, address critical risks, and take responsibility for security outcomes, not just recommendations. Set security priorities and drive fixes through to verified completion; Find application vulnerabilities through code review, penetration testing and agent-specific red-team exercises; Work with ITOps, platform and product engineers to harden infrastructure and build security into delivery pipelines; Build detection for user and agent activity, and lead incident response.

Требования:

Strong application security background - you can spot exploitable flaws, and explain the fix; Hands-on penetration testing and offensive security experience across web applications, APIs, and cloud infrastructure; Solid infrastructure and cloud security fundamentals: IAM, network segmentation, containers and isolation, secrets management, logging; Experience building detections and running incident response, not only reviewing them; Real fluency with AI coding agents and LLM-based systems - how they work, where they fail, and how they can be manipulated; Enough software engineering skill to build your own tooling, automation, and test harnesses; Sound judgment under pressure: you can weigh a risk against a release, decide, and explain the decision to engineers and founders. Будет плюсом: Experience securing sandboxed or multi-tenant code execution environments; Red-team, bug bounty, or CTF track record; Experience with security programs and compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC 2) in a small company.

Условия:

Impact AI is reshaping how work gets done, and you'll be at the forefront of that shift, building a product that enables teams to get more done with AI. We use our own products every day, so you'll see how your work lands right away. AI-First We use AI to expand what one person can accomplish. You'll constantly rethink how you work: what to hand over to AI, and where your own judgment matters most. Ownership We keep the team small and give people real scope, autonomy, and equity. You'll take initiative, make decisions, and see your work through to real outcomes, raising the bar with every iteration. High Talent Density A small team of highly capable people moves faster and builds better. You'll work directly with senior teammates and our founder, Andrew Filev, in a flat structure where ideas win on merit, not titles. Remote-First We hire globally, prioritizing talent over location, so you can work where you're most productive. Prefer in-person? We have a hub in Barcelona with weekly co-working.