Senior Security Engineer – End-to-End Platform Security

Surge AI; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Surge AI seeks a senior Software Engineer, Security, to own security end to end across the company, from product and infrastructure to corporate IT. You’ll fix problems directly with the engineering team in a small, dynamic unit at the center of the AI ecosystem.

You’ll collaborate with engineers and researchers from top technology companies to build secure, scalable systems; remote-friendly with travel to collaborate in person with the team.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of production software experience
• Strong software engineering skills: you’ll go through the same coding and system design bar as our engineers
• Competence across all three of product, infrastructure, and corporate security
• A generalist who’s comfortable owning a little bit of everything rather than a narrow slice
• Early‑stage startup experience, ideally as one of the first security hires at a company
• A builder’s instinct for ambiguity: comfortable operating without a fixed roadmap or product managers, and you fix problems yourself instead of throwing them over the fence
• Experience with Python or Ruby on Rails a plus
• CS degree from a top school or equivalent STEM background

Responsibilities

• Fix authentication and authorization issues across the platform
• Improve how we manage keys and secrets across projects
• Harden internal tooling and bring off‑band tools built by other teams safely into the platform
• Refactor permissioning and pull sensitive capabilities out of our admin systems
• Contribute to core backend engineering work alongside the engineering team
• Own security reviews, incident response, and tooling, flexing across product, infrastructure, and corporate as the business needs

Skills

Senior software engineer

Security

Broad ownership

System design

Authentication/Authorization

Python

Ruby

Startup experience

Education

CS degree or equivalent STEM

Tools

Python

Ruby

Job description

Surge AI seeks a senior Software Engineer, Security, to own security end to end across the company, from product and infrastructure to corporate IT. You’ll fix problems directly with the engineering team in a small, dynamic unit at the center of the AI ecosystem.

You’ll collaborate with engineers and researchers from top technology companies to build secure, scalable systems; remote-friendly with travel to collaborate in person with the team.