Staff Security Engineer, Enterprise AI

Faire; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 204,000 - 280,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Comprehensive benefits

Flexible work schedule

Training and development

Job summary

Faire is seeking a Staff Engineer focused on Enterprise AI to lead the company’s AI strategy and govern AI systems. This role requires 7+ years of security engineering experience, strong communication skills, and proficiency in programming. Responsibilities include developing decision frameworks, designing secure experimentation environments, and ensuring compliance logs are maintained. The position offers a salary range from $204,000 to $280,500 per year and features hybrid work conditions, allowing flexibility alongside office attendance.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in security/engineering roles.
• Experience in presenting decisions to senior leadership.
• Strong ability to operate independently.
• Proficiency in programming languages.
• Experience managing AI platforms at a technical level.
• Designing scalable internal systems.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive company-wide AI strategy.
• Serve as technical authority for AI platforms.
• Build decision frameworks for AI governance.
• Design secure experimentation infrastructure.
• Lead AI pilot programs from start to finish.
• Engineer observability and compliance infrastructure.

Skills

Security engineering

Platform engineering

Infrastructure engineering

Communication skills

Programming (Python, Go, Ruby, Java)

AI/LLM administration

Observability/SIEM tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Datadog

Splunk

Job description

About This Role

The Corporate Security team at Faire owns the tools and policies that keep our people, data, and systems protected. The team's scope includes endpoint detection, data loss prevention, email security, corporate threat detection, compliance training, and AI governance. As a Staff Engineer focusing on Enterprise AI, you will be the technical leader for AI systems, partnering with engineering teams to drive AI initiatives while ensuring governance, security, and enablement scale alongside adoption.

What You’ll Do

• Own and drive Faire’s company‑wide AI strategy in partnership with engineering, business, and executive stakeholders. This means setting the direction for which tools we adopt, how we govern them, and how we scale adoption.
• Serve as the technical authority on AI platform administration for tools like Anthropic and OpenAI. Evaluate, enable, and disable native connectors, plugins, and features based on risk, security posture, and business value.
• Build and maintain decision frameworks (e.g., risk matrices, enablement criteria) that make AI governance repeatable and transparent.
• Design and engineer secure experimentation infrastructure, including sandboxed environments, isolated MCP connectors for testing new features, and scoped OAuth flows, so teams can safely explore new AI capabilities.
• Design and build custom MCP integrations when out‑of‑the‑box options don’t exist or don’t meet Faire’s security requirements (e.g., overly broad permissions, insufficient audit logging).
• Lead AI pilot programs end‑to‑end, from scoping and stakeholder alignment through rollout, troubleshooting, feedback collection, and iteration.
• Engineer observability and compliance infrastructure, ensuring compliance logs from AI platforms end up in our SIEM.
• Own the operational mechanics of AI adoption tracking, including automating usage data pipelines into Snowflake and partnering with data analysts and domain teams that own adoption metrics.
• Partner with Learning & Development and engineering teams to build and deliver AI training, prompt libraries, and enablement resources tailored to different roles and workflows.
• Embed with teams across the company to understand their workflows, identify where AI can accelerate their work, and also where it shouldn’t be used.
• Communicate AI strategy, risk trade‑offs, and recommendations clearly to audiences ranging from junior engineers to C‑level executives, respectfully challenging perspectives when the data warrants it.
• Stay current with the rapidly evolving AI product landscape and proactively assess new capabilities (e.g., new platform features, agent frameworks) for security implications and business value.

What It Takes

• 7+ years of experience in security engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, or IT engineering.
• Experience building and presenting decision frameworks, risk assessments, or strategy recommendations to senior leadership.
• Ability to operate independently, setting your own strategy, building stakeholder relationships, and executing with minimal oversight.
• Strong communication skills across a wide range of audiences, from mentoring junior engineers to partnering with executives in strategy discussions.
• Proficiency in at least one object‑oriented programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Ruby, Java) with the ability to build integrations, tooling, and automations from scratch.
• Hands‑on experience administering or deeply integrating with AI/LLM platforms. Not just using them, but managing them at the platform level (e.g., building MCP servers, extending LLM functionality, managing enterprise AI admin consoles).
• Experience designing scalable internal systems and infrastructure.
• Track record of owning company‑wide programs that delivered measurable impact to downstream users or the business.
• Experience with observability or SIEM tooling (e.g., Datadog, Splunk) and building data pipelines for monitoring and compliance.

Nice To Have

• Understanding of LLM internals, transformer architectures, tokenization, context window management, RAG patterns, prompt engineering techniques, and the security risks inherent to each (prompt injection, data leakage, output manipulation).
• Prior experience in an AI governance, AI enablement, or AI strategy role.
• Experience with observability or SIEM tooling (e.g., Datadog, Splunk) and building data pipelines for monitoring and compliance.
• Familiarity with security and compliance considerations specific to AI tooling, such as data residency, DLP policies for AI‑generated content, agent access controls, and OAuth scoping for third‑party integrations.
• Experience building internal enablement programs—training courses, documentation, or developer advocacy—that drove measurable adoption of new tools or practices.

Salary Range

San Francisco: $204,000 - $280,500 per year.

This role will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Actual base pay will be determined based on permissible factors such as transferable skills, work experience, market demands, and primary work location. The base pay range provided is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Hybrid Work Conditions

Hybrid Faire employees currently go into the office 3 days per week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and a third flex day of their choosing (Monday, Wednesday, or Friday). Additionally, hybrid in‑office roles will have the flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year. Specific Workplace and Information Technology positions may require onsite attendance 5 days per week as indicated in the job posting.

Why you’ll love working at Faire

• Move fast: You’ll own meaningful problems that serve customers around the globe with the agency to move fast and see your results clearly.
• Equipped to scale: We invest in what matters, including the latest enterprise AI tools, to help you work smarter and get more out of every day.
• Best in class: Our team is full of sharp, kind, and generous colleagues who care about their craft and about helping you grow in yours.
• Real rewards: Competitive pay, equity, and comprehensive benefits designed to support your life inside and outside of work.
• Belonging: We’re intentional about building an environment where every Faire employee has equal access to opportunities, growth, and success.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Faire provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

Faire is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. Accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process and applicants with a disability may request to be accommodated throughout the recruitment process. We will work with all applicants to accommodate their individual accessibility needs. To request reasonable accommodation, please fill out your accommodation request form.

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