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Job description
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.