Staff AppSec Engineer: AI & Cloud Security

Nclusion, Inc.; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with match

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Competitive compensation & equity

Flexible PTO – minimum 14 days

In‑office lunch, team events & culture

Job summary

Nclusion, Inc. is seeking a Staff Application Security Engineer to lead the design and implementation of security for applications, AI, and developer workflows. This is a hands‑on role focused on automation, secure SDLC, and enabling secure AI adoption across engineering.

The position is based in East Palo Alto, with onsite work Monday–Thursday and remote Fridays. The ideal candidate combines deep application security expertise with cloud‑native architectures and pragmatic risk management to

Qualifications

• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, Java, TypeScript, or C++ and hands‑on security engineering experience.
• Experience with threat modeling, API security, authentication/authorization, and secure design principles.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, containers, networking, and Infrastructure‑as‑Code tools such as Terraform.
• Knowledge of IAM, MFA, logging, and audit systems is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement security controls across web, mobile, backend services, and AI‑powered systems, including coding agents and LLM workflows.
• Integrate security into CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows.
• Design and implement production‑quality security services, APIs, and automation platforms.
• Build automation for SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, secret detection, container scanning, and IaC validation.
• Build guardrails for AI‑generated code, automated pull requests, and agentic development workflows.
• Partner with engineering teams on security and architecture reviews, providing practical guidance early in design and development.

Skills

Programming in Go, Python, Java, TypeS

Threat modeling, API security, authn/‑

Kubernetes, containers, networking, Ia

IAM, MFA, logging, audit systems

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Nclusion, Inc. is seeking a Staff Application Security Engineer to lead the design and implementation of security for applications, AI, and developer workflows. This is a hands‑on role focused on automation, secure SDLC, and enabling secure AI adoption across engineering.

The position is based in East Palo Alto, with onsite work Monday–Thursday and remote Fridays. The ideal candidate combines deep application security expertise with cloud‑native architectures and pragmatic risk management to