Senior Software Engineer: AI Security & Governance (Remote)

Octic; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 124,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Flexible schedule

Potential longer-term role

Cloud and self-hosted deployment

Job summary

Octic is seeking a remote contractor to build security and accountability infrastructure for AI agents, MCP servers, and related services. The role spans the product lifecycle on a small engineering team that uses coding agents in its workflow.

Responsibilities include owning systems end to end, designing features for discovery, trust policies, monitoring, and security evidence, and mapping AI services and ownership.

Qualifications

• Experience owning a system through design, implementation, and operation.
• Practical experience using AI coding agents and understanding failure modes.
• Some security experience; depth may vary.
• Ability to work independently in a small engineering team and communicate clearly.

Responsibilities

• Own systems end to end, making design and implementation decisions across product components.
• Develop features that support discovery, trust policies, monitoring, and evidence for security and compliance reviews.
• Build and operate software for mapping AI services and ownership and activity.
• Use coding agents in daily development while assessing their limitations and maintaining engineering quality.
• Contribute to security work and explain relevant trade-offs in system design.

Skills

End-to-end system ownership

AI coding agents

Security awareness

Independent work

Job description

Octic is seeking a remote contractor to build security and accountability infrastructure for AI agents, MCP servers, and related services. The role spans the product lifecycle on a small engineering team that uses coding agents in its workflow.

Responsibilities include owning systems end to end, designing features for discovery, trust policies, monitoring, and security evidence, and mapping AI services and ownership.