Senior Policy Engineer: AI Authorization & Enforcement

Redpanda; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Redpanda seeks a policy enforcement engineer to take the policy engine from prototype to production, wiring Cedar-based enforcement into the AI gateway. You will invent policy authoring and two-tier composition so security teams can author and test policies confidently.

The role requires 5+ years building authorization in live request paths and a deep understanding of AI failure modes, with responsibilities including auditing enforcement decisions and maintaining the adversarial certification

Qualifications

• 5+ years building authorization or policy enforcement in live request paths.
• Policy-as-code experience.
• Deep understanding of AI agent failure modes like prompt injection and data exfiltration.

Responsibilities

• Audit every enforcement decision as an attributable, replayable record.
• Maintain the adversarial certification harness and work with design-partner customers.

Skills

Policy enforcement

Policy-as-code

Authorization

Live request paths

Auditing

AI safety

Tools

Cedar

Job description

Redpanda seeks a policy enforcement engineer to take the policy engine from prototype to production, wiring Cedar-based enforcement into the AI gateway. You will invent policy authoring and two-tier composition so security teams can author and test policies confidently.

The role requires 5+ years building authorization in live request paths and a deep understanding of AI failure modes, with responsibilities including auditing enforcement decisions and maintaining the adversarial certification