Staff Security Engineer

robotsandpencils; United States; Remote; USD 77,000 - 106,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

robotsandpencils is seeking a Staff Security Engineer to shape the security direction of cloud applications and AI-enabled systems. The role covers security architecture, threat analysis, cloud controls, automation, detection, incident response, and protection of production AI workloads.

You will define security standards, lead threat modeling and reviews, and establish comprehensive cloud security controls.

Qualifications

• Extensive professional experience in security engineering.
• Secure cloud infrastructure, applications, APIs, and production services.
• Strong knowledge of threat modeling, identity, secrets management, encryption, and automation.
• Ability to translate security risks and tradeoffs for engineering, product, leadership, and other stakeholders.
• Ability to lead difficult technical problems independently while mentoring engineers and raising standards.
• Familiarity with AI/LLM security implications such as tool calling or multi-step agent workflows.

Responsibilities

• Define security architecture and engineering standards for web applications, APIs, cloud-native services, and complex production systems.
• Lead threat modeling, security design reviews, and risk prioritization across application and AI systems.
• Establish cloud security controls covering identity and access management, network security, secrets, encryption, and data protection.
• Integrate security automation, policy as code, and shift-left detection into CI/CD workflows.
• Lead detection engineering, security logging, and incident-response practices.
• Define protections for AI applications against prompt injection, data leakage, model abuse, and agent-related threats.

Skills

Security engineering

Threat modeling

Cloud security

Security automation

Leadership

AI/LLM security

Tools

IAM & encryption

Job description

Role overview

Staff Security Engineer responsible for setting the security direction of cloud applications and AI-enabled systems. This is a senior technical leadership role covering security architecture, threat analysis, cloud controls, automation, detection, incident response, and the protection of production AI and large-language-model workloads.

Responsibilities

• Define security architecture and engineering standards for web applications, APIs, cloud-native services, and complex production systems.
• Lead threat modeling, security design reviews, and risk prioritization across application and AI systems.
• Establish cloud security controls covering identity and access management, network security, secrets, encryption, and data protection.
• Integrate security automation, policy as code, and shift-left detection into continuous integration and delivery workflows.
• Lead detection engineering, security logging, and incident-response practices.
• Define protections for AI applications, including defenses against prompt injection, data leakage, model abuse, and agent-related threats.

Requirements

• Extensive professional experience in security engineering or a closely related technical discipline.
• Demonstrated ability to design and secure cloud infrastructure, application code, APIs, and production services.
• Strong knowledge of threat modeling, security reviews, identity, secrets management, encryption, and security automation.
• Experience translating complex security risks and tradeoffs for engineering, product, leadership, and other stakeholders.
• Ability to lead difficult technical problems independently while mentoring engineers and raising engineering standards.
• Familiarity with the security implications of AI/LLM applications and integrations such as tool calling or multi-step agent workflows.

Nice to have

• Experience building detection and response capabilities for cloud production environments.
• Experience integrating AI services into security workflows for detection, investigation, or triage.
• Comfort using modern AI-assisted engineering tools to improve delivery quality and speed.

Benefits and work setup

This is a remote role for candidates based in the United States. The listed compensation range is approximately $56 - $77 USD per hour. Eligible employees may receive paid time off, medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus a 401(k).