Staff Engineer — Enterprise Security & AI Risk

a16z; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 243,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Life insurance

401K plan

Vacation

Sick leave

Carry program

Job summary

a16z in San Francisco is seeking a Staff Engineer to own enterprise security across insider risk, data protection, SaaS security, and the secure adoption of AI. This is a program-ownership role that will set strategy, select tooling, write policies with IT, and drive them through to working controls.

The role requires hands-on expertise in securing AI tools in an enterprise, managing EDR across platforms, and leading vendor security assessments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in security engineering or enterprise security roles.
• Deep expertise in IAM, authentication/authorization, DLP, insider risk tooling, and SSPM.
• Experience owning security programs end-to-end: strategy to implementation.
• Hands-on experience securing AI tools and agentic systems in enterprises.
• Experience with Google Workspace, Okta, MDM, SSPM, zero trust, cloud-native environments.
• Ability translate risk to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own insider risk and data protection end-to-end, including DLP platform selection and AI-augmented DLP tooling.
• Drive secure AI adoption, define guardrails for agents, and build governance for rapid yet safe AI use.
• Own SaaS security posture across vendors with inventories and secure configurations.
• Set authentication/authorization policy with IT and enforce it.
• Manage EDR across macOS, Windows, and iOS, coordinating with IT/MDM.
• Oversee joiner/mover/leaver lifecycle, focusing on offboarding and access revocation.
• Run vendor security due diligence processes with a risk-based approach.
• Monitor and respond to data exfiltration and insider-risk events with IR/Legal.
• Participate in Security on-call rotations.

Skills

IAM & authentication

DLP & insider risk tooling

SaaS security posture

Endpoint management

AI security in enterprise

Zero trust architectures

Security program ownership

Vendor security assessments

Job description

a16z in San Francisco is seeking a Staff Engineer to own enterprise security across insider risk, data protection, SaaS security, and the secure adoption of AI. This is a program-ownership role that will set strategy, select tooling, write policies with IT, and drive them through to working controls.

The role requires hands-on expertise in securing AI tools in an enterprise, managing EDR across platforms, and leading vendor security assessments.