Product Security Engineer
BackOps AI2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Own product security across authentication, authorization, APIs, multi-tenant isolation, and related data models.
- Threat model the agent platform, define agent permissions and boundaries, and design controls for unsafe actions.
- Build and operate the secure development lifecycle, including design reviews, code review standards, and CI security scanning.
- Manage application vulnerabilities from discovery and prioritization through remediation and verification.
- Secure AI-assisted code, software dependencies, build pipelines, artifacts, and third-party integrations.
- Lead the engineering work for enterprise security reviews, penetration tests, coordinated vulnerability disclosure, and customer-hosted or on-premises deployments.
- Establish the product security function, practices, charter, and adoption culture as the company scales.
Requirements
- 5+ years of product or application security engineering experience, or equivalent hands-on software engineering experience in security.
- Strong coding skills in Python, Go, TypeScript, or a similar language, including the ability to review code and implement fixes.
- Deep experience with authentication, authorization, multi-tenant isolation, OAuth, OIDC, RBAC, token handling, and session handling.
- Strong web and API security knowledge across OWASP Top 10 vulnerability classes, including injection, SSRF, deserialization, and broken access control.
- Working familiarity with the OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications and the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications.
- Experience with threat modeling and with SAST, DAST, SCA, and secrets scanning in CI.
- Clear written and verbal communication with engineers, executives, and customers, plus sound risk judgment in an evolving environment.
- Preferred experience securing LLM or agentic systems, including prompt injection, insecure tool use, excessive agency, sandboxing, and untrusted model output.
- Preferred experience with SOC 2 Type I/II, ISO 27001, Vanta, Drata, enterprise security reviews, multi-tenant B2B SaaS, customer-hosted deployments, bug bounty or coordinated disclosure programs, and building a product security function.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401(k) plan, disability insurance, and life insurance.
- Flexible time off.
- Daily meals in the office, regular team events, and offsites.
- Small-team environment with autonomy and direct access to founders and customers.
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About BackOps AI
BackOps AI builds an agentic AI platform that automates supply‑chain workflows and decision-making for logistics and operations teams. The company sells enterprise software and integrations that take actions within live operations to improve efficiency and reliability. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held and focuses on supply chain, business process automation, and AI-driven operations.