Security Engineer II: Infrastructure & AI Security, SF Onsite

Rippling; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

Reasonable accommodations

On-site in SF

Job summary

Rippling in San Francisco is seeking a security-focused engineer to own end-to-end infrastructure security across the development and deployment ecosystem. You will automate guardrails, apply secure defaults, and collaborate with platform and infra teams to strengthen data security and compliance.

Responsibilities include guiding SOA transitions, using AI tools to accelerate investigations and automations, shaping metrics, and leading threat modeling to reduce vulnerabilities before production.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in security or software engineering in cloud environments.
• Proficiency in Python or Go for security development.
• Experience using AI tools for security investigation and automation.
• Knowledge of AWS security controls.

Responsibilities

• Secure the development and deployment ecosystem across AWS, Containers, Service Mesh, Data Stores, AI/ML, Network & Traffic, Supply Chain.
• Help platform and infrastructure teams transition securely to a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
• Use AI tools to accelerate security engineering workflows, including prototyping detections and automations.
• Apply AI to support investigations and improve team workflows while validating outputs and escalation needs.
• Identify repeatable manual work and replace with durable systems.
• Lead initiatives to strengthen data security with a focus on compliance and resilience.
• Define and share security metrics for actionable visibility and continuous improvement.
• Investigate critical security areas and rapidly resolve issues.
• Participate in security design reviews and threat modeling to reduce vulnerabilities before production.

Skills

Python

Go

Cloud security

AI tools

Security engineering

Tools

AWS

Job description

Rippling in San Francisco is seeking a security-focused engineer to own end-to-end infrastructure security across the development and deployment ecosystem. You will automate guardrails, apply secure defaults, and collaborate with platform and infra teams to strengthen data security and compliance.

Responsibilities include guiding SOA transitions, using AI tools to accelerate investigations and automations, shaping metrics, and leading threat modeling to reduce vulnerabilities before production.