Senior Security Platform Architect (AI/Agentic)

Devconnectplatform; United States; Remote; USD 229,000 - 314,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Senior Staff Security Software Engineer to lead the Agentic Security Engineering platform, defining architecture, standards, and cross-team collaboration for safe, scalable AI-enabled security personas.

You will drive reliable, secure agentic systems, partner across Security Operations, Product Security, Governance & Risk, and Enterprise Security, and mentor engineers to elevate platform reliability and security maturity.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, security platform architecture, or systems security.
• Fluency in Python and modern cloud-native systems architecture (Kubernetes, distributed streaming/storage, high-throughput microservices) for secure infrastructure.
• Ability to align multiple VP/Engineering Director-level organizations on complex technical strategies and ship multi-quarter transformations.
• Deep expertise in AI/ML security, agentic system trust boundaries, prompt injection and tool-use risks, adversarial testing, identity and authorization, data protection, and secure deployment of AI-enabled systems.
• Experience designing platform guardrails for sensitive workflows involving untrusted input, privileged tools, secrets, production systems, or confidential data.
• Strong technical communication skills to explain platform, security, and reliability tradeoffs to engineers, security leaders, and executives.
• Proven track record of raising the technical bar through design reviews, mentorship, proposals, and cross-functional influence.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the architecture for the shared Security AI platform and its paved road for governed agentic workflows.
• Establish reusable patterns for agent identity, least-privilege access, sandboxing, egress control, secret isolation, policy enforcement, auditability, and rollback.
• Set engineering standards for reliability, observability, evaluation, incident response, cost instrumentation, and safe production deployment.
• Lead design and development of production-grade platform capabilities enabling secure personas to operate reliably at scale.
• Collaborate across Security Operations, Product Security, Governance and Risk, and other functions to drive platform adoption and safety.

Skills

Python

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Senior Staff Security Software Engineer to lead the Agentic Security Engineering platform, defining architecture, standards, and cross-team collaboration for safe, scalable AI-enabled security personas.

You will drive reliable, secure agentic systems, partner across Security Operations, Product Security, Governance & Risk, and Enterprise Security, and mentor engineers to elevate platform reliability and security maturity.