Staff Security Engineer — Cloud & AI Security

Apply; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 226,000 - 283,000; Full time

Job summary

Ambience seeks a senior security-focused engineer to design and operate secure products. You’ll own security analysis, requirements, risk decisions, and tooling, contributing code where it adds leverage.

Expect to influence architecture, automate safeguards, and expand AWS security expertise while ensuring safety in healthcare-focused cloud environments. You are based in the Bay Area and can work from our San Francisco office three days per week, collaborating across teams to protect patient

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product security experience.
• Strong software engineering background with one backend language.
• Expertise in authentication/authorization and API security.
• Cloud security knowledge in AWS and CNAPP concepts.
• Based in the Bay Area with SF office access three days a week.

Responsibilities

• Secure design for high-risk changes from design through verification.
• Own security backlog from reviews, tests, audits, and tooling.
• Scale security engineering with automation and tooling ownership.
• Reduce cloud risk via AWS migration and guardrails.
• Secure across production, development, and enterprise AI environments.

Skills

Security leadership

Engineering roots

Cloud security

Threat modeling

Backend languages

AI in security

Job description

Ambience seeks a senior security-focused engineer to design and operate secure products. You’ll own security analysis, requirements, risk decisions, and tooling, contributing code where it adds leverage.

Expect to influence architecture, automate safeguards, and expand AWS security expertise while ensuring safety in healthcare-focused cloud environments. You are based in the Bay Area and can work from our San Francisco office three days per week, collaborating across teams to protect patient