Security Engineer Jobs in California

About the Role

Join a growing AI-driven fintech company as a hands-on senior individual contributor, owning and evolving its application security program. You will help secure AI agent workflows in a regulated financial services environment while enabling engineering teams to build and ship safely.

What You'll Do

• Build and mature application security tooling, processes, and secure development practices that fit naturally into engineering workflows.

• Partner with engineering teams on security architecture for AI agent workflows, protecting data and addressing AI-specific vulnerabilities.

• Automate security operations by developing detection pipelines, improving vulnerability management, and reducing manual work.

• Lead incident response and turn lessons from incidents into lasting security improvements.

• Support compliance and customer trust work, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, and financial institution security requirements.

What We're Looking For

• Four to eight years of application or product security experience, including hands-on work in a fast-growing technology company.

• At least three years focused primarily on application security, such as secure code review, threat modeling, penetration testing, or building security tools for engineers.

• A technical bachelor's degree and strong computer science fundamentals.

• Currently working as an individual contributor, with hands-on coding as a core part of the role.

• Experience with TypeScript or JavaScript, AWS or GCP, secure SDLC, DevSecOps, threat modeling, IAM, and application security.

• Familiarity with AI and LLM security, cloud security, fintech or regulated B2B SaaS, and SOC 2 or ISO 27001 is valuable.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary is $190,000 to $250,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.