Sr. Staff Security Software Engineer - Agentic Security Engineering
$183k - $314k • Remote • Remote - California
Posted 5d ago
Job Location
Remote - California
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Categories
AI Agent Engineer
About the job
The Agentic Security Engineering team is building an AI-native shared services platform to empower all Databricks security functions. This role will serve as a senior technical authority and architect for this platform, defining its architecture, technical standards, and multi-year engineering direction. You will ensure security teams can safely build, deploy, and operate governed AI personas at scale, focusing on areas like secure agent identity, isolation, policy enforcement, auditability, and observability. Your work will involve cross-organizational alignment, driving adoption of common patterns, and resolving complex technical challenges to improve the quality, safety, reliability, and velocity of the Security AI ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the architecture for the shared Security AI platform and its paved road for governed agentic workflows.
- Establish reusable patterns for agent identity, least-privilege access, sandboxing, egress control, secret isolation, policy enforcement, auditability, and rollback.
- Set engineering standards for reliability, observability, evaluation, incident response, cost instrumentation, and safe production deployment.
- Design the platform to support secure multi-agent workflows, tool registries, policy-aware orchestration, and agent-to-agent collaboration.
- Lead the design and development of production-grade platform capabilities for reliable operation of security personas.
- Define how the platform measures successful runs, latency, failure rates, rollback readiness, safety, governance coverage, trust, autonomy, and business value.
- Establish qualification and maturity mechanisms for security persona capabilities and autonomy.
- Drive technical solutions for high-risk workflows, including offensive security personas, untrusted inputs, sensitive data, production access, and automated tool execution.
- Improve the velocity of safe AI development without compromising security, governance, or operational reliability.
- Serve as a technical authority for the shared Security AI platform across various security functions.
- Align engineering and security leaders on platform direction, architectural tradeoffs, adoption priorities, and standards for safe agentic systems.
- Partner with AI Champions and domain teams to turn recurring cross-functional needs into reusable platform capabilities.
- Represent the platform in architecture reviews and technical decisions.
- Drive adoption of common platform patterns and retire duplicated or inconsistent implementations.
- Mentor engineers on distributed systems, platform architecture, AI security engineering, agentic threat modeling, and technical leadership.
- Lead high-rigor design reviews and raise the bar for reliability, operability, security, and maintainability.
- Help establish a culture of measurable outcomes, disciplined evaluation, safe experimentation, and continuous improvement.
- Influence technical direction beyond the immediate team through clear written proposals, architecture reviews, and cross-functional execution.
Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, security platform architecture, or systems security.
- Proven track record of operating at an L7/Senior Staff level at a major cloud, platform, or high-growth tech company.
- Exceptional fluency in Python.
- Experience with modern cloud-native systems architecture (Kubernetes, distributed streaming/storage, high-throughput microservices).
- Experience delivering fault-tolerant, low-latency security infrastructure.
- Experience with multi-org architectural execution.