Platform Security Engineer
Applied Compute6 months ago
Base Salary
$190k - $310k/yr
Responsibilities
- Shape the platform security architecture across data handling, credential management, agent execution, and customer deployments.
- Lead threat modeling and secure design reviews while prioritizing material risks, attack surfaces, and assumptions.
- Drive offensive security by stress-testing the platform, agents, and pipelines against realistic adversaries.
- Build security tooling, automation, detections, and agent-based defensive systems.
- Partner with engineers to establish secure-by-default practices and eliminate classes of risk through better design.
- Own security guarantees presented to enterprise customers and their CISOs.
- Lead incident response, including detection, containment, communication, and durable remediation.
- Help build the security teams as the company grows.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in platform security and cyber defense.
- Strong offensive-security mindset and ability to identify and prioritize important vulnerabilities.
- Experience shipping secure software to production and applying secure design principles such as least privilege and defense-in-depth.
- Ability to operate with strong judgment, autonomy, and comfort with ambiguity.
- Preferred experience securing complex cloud and multi-tenant environments, especially deployments inside customer VPCs.
- Preferred familiarity with AI- and agent-specific risks such as prompt injection, tool-use abuse, and data or model exfiltration.
- Preferred background in offensive security, vulnerability research, or red teaming against cloud or AI systems.
- Preferred experience using LLMs to accelerate detection, investigation, triage, or automated response.
- Preferred experience completing SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, or FedRAMP compliance programs as engineering efforts.
- Previous experience as a founder, security lead, or early engineer at a zero-to-one company is valued.
Benefits
- Based in San Francisco and working from the company's Mission office.
- Meaningful equity and a comprehensive benefits package.
- 100% employer-paid health insurance for the employee and family.
- Unlimited PTO and paid parental leave.
- Daily lunches and dinners.
- Transportation and relocation support.
- 5% 401(k) match.
- Visa sponsorship is available, subject to the company's stated process and candidate or role-specific success.
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About Applied Compute
Applied Compute builds enterprise AI systems that turn internal knowledge into custom models and deployable agent workforces. Its platform and forward-deployed teams create evals, train models on proprietary data, and run continually learning agents inside customer environments. The company is privately held and headquartered in San Francisco, serving enterprises that want in-house, domain-specific AI rather than generic foundation models.