Staff Software Engineer - Security

Flow Engineering; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 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 focused on security to own the security architecture and harden the platform for defense, aerospace, and other customers. You will lead security for AI and agentic workflows, define controls, and drive compliance posture across the stack.

You will collaborate with product, sales, and engineering to ensure secure, scalable solutions while building out monitoring, threat modeling, and incident response capabilities.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building production software and securing services at scale.
• Experience in application and cloud security (AWS, GCP, or Azure) with IAM, secrets, and data protection.
• Proven track record owning SOC 2 and security in regulated/high-trust environments; ITAR/FedRAMP a plus.
• Strong threat modeling, secure architecture, and incident response skills.
• Experience securing AI/LLM systems and leading security in startup contexts.

Responsibilities

• Own security architecture across the platform, including threat modeling and secure design reviews.
• Harden the full stack: application security, cloud infra, identity, network, secrets, and data protection.
• Drive SOC 2 readiness and certifications for defense and aerospace customers (export control, ITAR).
• Secure AI/agentic systems: prompt injection, data leakage controls, and guardrails.
• Build security tooling for detection, monitoring, vulnerability management, and CI/CD.
• Stand up incident response and run postmortems from detection through remediation.
• Collaborate with sales and product to pass security reviews and win customers.

Skills

Threat modeling

Secure architecture

Incident response

Cloud security

AI/LLM security

Startup security leadership

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Postgres

Job description

About Flow

Flow Engineering is an AI-native requirements platform for modern engineering organizations, enabling hardware teams to collaborate with AI agents to design, validate, and evolve complex systems with speed and rigor.

About the role

Our customers in defense, aerospace and more trust us with sensitive systems requirements. That means security is a first-order part of the product, so we’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to own it.

This is our first dedicated security hire, so you'll define the security architecture, harden the platform, and build out the compliance posture. Since LLMs and agentic workflows sit at the center of what we do, you'll also lead how we secure them.

What you'll do

• 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.

About you

• 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.

Our stack (AI-leaning)

• TypeScript/Node.js and Python for AI and backend services.

• Modern LLM APIs and orchestration libraries for building agentic workflows.

• Postgres and other managed cloud services for data and state.

How we work & values

• Speed over everything: prototype AI workflows quickly, then harden what works.

• Own, downscope, ship, iterate: one clear owner per feature, from prototype to production.

• Fundamentals done well: evaluation, observability, and safety are part of the first version, not an afterthought.

• Competitive salary and meaningful equity.

• Health, dental, and vision coverage.

• Flexible time off and support for experimentation, learning, and staying current with the AI ecosystem.