Security Engineer - Member of Technical Staff

Simile; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

Flexible time off policies

Job summary

Simile is seeking a Security Engineer to ensure the security of novel AI products. This role involves managing technical security discussions with enterprise customers and developing tooling for safe code shipping.

The ideal candidate should have 5+ years of experience in application or infrastructure security, particularly in AWS environments. Compensation ranges between $200,000 and $400,000, with equity options and health benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in application or infrastructure security within a high‑growth environment.
• Deep expertise in securing AWS environments; experience with GCP or Azure is a major plus.
• Ability to think like an attacker to anticipate risks.

Responsibilities

• Partner with customers on security agreements and data handling requirements.
• Conduct threat modeling and secure design reviews.
• Develop tooling for safe code shipping.
• Oversee bug bounty program and vulnerability scanning.
• Build defenses against AI‑novel risks.

Skills

Application or infrastructure security experience

Securing AWS environments

Offensive security mindset

Experience with AI/ML security

Kubernetes security experience

Job description

About the Role

We are looking for a Security Engineer who thrives on securing novel AI products. You will own the security roadmap, ensuring our platform is resilient, compliant, and stays ahead of an ever‑evolving threat landscape.

Responsibilities

• Customer Security & Trust: Partner with our largest enterprise customers to navigate the procurement process, leading technical discussions regarding security agreements, providing comprehensive posture overviews, and ensuring alignment on rigorous data handling requirements.

• Lead Secure Design: Conduct threat modeling and secure design reviews for new features, ensuring security is a core consideration from initial design through implementation.

• Automate Defenses: Develop tooling and "paved paths" that allow our engineering and research teams to ship code safely without sacrificing velocity.

• Own Vulnerability Management: Oversee our bug bounty program and internal vulnerability scanning, prioritizing fixes based on actual risk to our foundation models.

• Secure AI/ML Pipelines: Build specific defenses against AI‑novel risks, including protecting high‑throughput inference systems and GPU‑accelerated computing environments.

• Champion GitOps Security: Manage security configurations via Terraform/Pulumi, ensuring "security‑as‑code" is the truth across all multi‑region environments.

Requirements

Must Haves

• Experience: 5+ years of experience in application or infrastructure security within a high‑growth environment.
• Security Polyglot: Deep expertise in securing AWS environments; experience with GCP or Azure is a major plus.
• Offensive Mindset: Ability to think like an attacker to anticipate risks, paired with a collaborative spirit to help engineers remediate them.
• Operational Mindset: Experience with modern observability and a "you build it, you run it" mentality toward security infrastructure.
• Agentic Security Tooling: Experience integrating agentic AI workflows into the developer lifecycle to provide real‑time security feedback, enabling engineers to be "secure‑by‑design" as code is written rather than after the fact.

Nice to Haves

• AI/ML Security: Experience securing AI/ML workloads, specifically defending against prompt injection or protecting model weights.
• Kubernetes Mastery: Strong K8s (EKS/GKE) experience, specifically around multi‑tenant security and resource isolation.
• Compliance Expertise: Proven track record of navigating SOC2, HIPAA, or similar regulatory frameworks in a cloud‑native environment.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary Range: $200,000 – $400,000 USD
  • Note: Final offers are based on experience, specialized skills, interview performance, and relevant training.
• Equity: Grants are available for eligible roles, subject to board approval.
• Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Time Off: Flexible time off policies to support work‑life balance.

Equal Opportunity & Inclusion

Simile is an equal opportunity workplace. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and identities, valuing an environment where everyone can contribute authentically.

Accommodations: If you require support or reasonable accommodations during the application process due to a disability, please let us know. We are happy to assist.