Staff AI Security Engineer — Production AI Agents

Databricks Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 162,000 - 261,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Staff Security Software Engineer to own major AI agent platforms and the security tooling that powers them. You will design, ship, and operate production-grade AI agents with reliability, observability, and safe-by-default security as top priorities.

You will set engineering standards, mentor engineers, and partner with security teams to scale AI threat detection, red-teaming tooling, and governance use cases across the organization, while optimizing latency and cost.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software or security engineering; demonstrated technical leadership on a major workstream.
• Production-grade AI agents and security tooling experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, ship, and operate production AI agents and the platform capabilities that power them.
• Set engineering standards with reliability, latency, cost, monitoring, and safe model upgrades.
• Lead reviews, mentor mid-level engineers, and collaborate with partner security teams.
• Drive AI threat detection, red-teaming tooling, and governance use cases at scale.

Skills

Python

Agent architecture

Memory management

Production operations

AI evaluation

LLM tooling

Technical leadership

Tools

LangChain

HuggingFace

Frontier models

MCP tooling

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Staff Security Software Engineer to own major AI agent platforms and the security tooling that powers them. You will design, ship, and operate production-grade AI agents with reliability, observability, and safe-by-default security as top priorities.

You will set engineering standards, mentor engineers, and partner with security teams to scale AI threat detection, red-teaming tooling, and governance use cases across the organization, while optimizing latency and cost.