Staff Security Engineer for AI Platform & Compliance

The Engineering Company; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Meaningful equity

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Flexible time off

Job summary

Flow Engineering is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own the security architecture of our AI-native platform. You will lead secure design across cloud services, implement threat models, and drive compliance readiness such as SOC 2, export controls, and ITAR.

You will secure AI and agentic workflows, build tooling for detection and incident response, and collaborate with sales and product to win customer confidence.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building production software, including running secure services at scale in the cloud.
• Deep experience in application and cloud security (AWS, GCP, or Azure): identity and access, secrets, network security, data protection.
• You've owned security in a regulated or high-trust environment and have implemented SOC 2 yourself. Export control, ITAR, or FedRAMP experience is a big plus.
• Solid on threat modeling, secure architecture, and incident response.
• You've secured AI or LLM systems.
• You're comfortable being the security lead at a startup and setting the agenda yourself.

Responsibilities

• Own security architecture across the platform: threat modeling, secure design reviews, and the standards we build against.
• Harden the full stack, from application security to cloud infrastructure (identity, network, secrets), tenant isolation, and data protection.
• Drive SOC 2 and get us ready for the certifications defense and aerospace customers ask about, including export control and ITAR.
• Secure our AI and agentic systems: prompt injection, data leaking through models, what actions agents are allowed to take, and guardrails.
• Build the security tooling we need across detection, monitoring, vulnerability management, and CI/CD.
• Stand up incident response and run it, from detection through postmortems.
• Work with sales and product to get through security reviews and win customer confidence.

Skills

Security leadership

Threat modeling

Incident response

Cloud security

AI/LLM security

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Flow Engineering is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to own the security architecture of our AI-native platform. You will lead secure design across cloud services, implement threat models, and drive compliance readiness such as SOC 2, export controls, and ITAR.

You will secure AI and agentic workflows, build tooling for detection and incident response, and collaborate with sales and product to win customer confidence.