Security Engineer
Town.com, Inc.2 months ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior
Base Salary
$250k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own application and product security for the Town assistant and autonomous agent action surface.
- Threat-model autonomous agent behavior, including prompt injection, tool misuse, and untrusted input involving sensitive data and external actions.
- Secure the persistent-user-model data pipeline through encryption, tenant isolation, access controls, and secrets management.
- Harden cloud infrastructure and third-party OAuth integrations, including Google, Slack, and CRM systems.
- Build the secure development lifecycle through design reviews, security-focused code reviews, dependency and supply-chain hygiene, and supporting tooling.
- Establish and run incident response, including detection, triage, and postmortems.
- Partner with engineering to make secure development practices easy to adopt.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in security engineering with depth in application and/or infrastructure security.
- Ability to read and write production code and remediate security problems directly.
- Experience securing a multi-tenant SaaS product handling sensitive user data at scale.
- Practical knowledge of cloud security, authentication and authorization, secrets, and encryption.
- Ability to threat-model effectively and communicate risk to engineers and founders.
- Interest in owning security from the ground up in a startup environment.
Benefits
- In-person work at the company’s San Francisco Financial District office five days per week.
Tech Stack
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About Town.com, Inc.
Town.com, Inc. builds an AI-powered assistant that connects to users’ existing tools to triage email, draft messages in their voice, manage calendars, and run cross-app workflows. The product targets professionals and teams seeking an agent that learns over time and performs work on their behalf. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held.