Senior Software Engineer - Application Security
Emergent Labs8 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Define security patterns and guardrails for AI-generated applications across authentication, data access, APIs, and business logic.
- Build secure-by-default application-generation frameworks and validation layers for generated code.
- Work with AI and agent pipelines to prevent insecure code, prompt injection, and adversarial inputs.
- Develop threat models for dynamic application creation flows and multi-tenant user-generated environments.
- Build authentication systems, permission frameworks, secure SDKs, API gateways, rate limiting, and LLM input/output validation layers.
- Red team AI-generated applications, identify systemic weaknesses, and feed findings back into generation systems.
Requirements
- 5–10+ years of experience in application security.
- Strong coding ability in Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript, including backend systems.
- Deep understanding of OWASP Top 10, authentication and session management, API security, injection, and sandbox escape vectors.
- Experience working closely with product and engineering teams.
Benefits
- Build security for AI systems that build software at global scale.
- Work directly with founders and core engineering teams on novel security problems.
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About Emergent Labs
Emergent Labs builds autonomous coding agents and an AI app builder that generate, test, and deploy production software from plain-language specifications for developers and product teams. It offers a cloud platform and APIs for building and operating applications, replacing parts of traditional software development workflows. Privately held and headquartered in San Francisco, it is backed by Y Combinator and investors including Khosla Ventures, SoftBank, Google, and Lightspeed.