10 months ago
Base Salary
$230k - $390k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and ship secure-by-default systems spanning agent safety, privacy, identity, authentication, authorization, and data security.
- Build and evolve identity management, access control, auditability, and data lifecycle systems.
- Create runtime policy enforcement, safe agent sandboxing, and data boundaries for AI agents.
- Develop developer-friendly security automation, schema validation, CI/CD security checks, and runtime monitoring.
- Partner with product and platform teams to make security, usability, performance, and innovation trade-offs.
- Own ambiguous cross-cutting security problems from initial definition through production operation.
Requirements
- Experience building and maintaining production software systems, designing APIs, and integrating authentication or identity frameworks.
- Strong security mindset focused on data flows, access control, least privilege, transparency, and secure system design.
- Ability to collaborate with product and platform teams and own solutions through production.
- Preferred experience with privacy, identity, trust and safety, authentication and authorization, or data protection systems.
- Preferred experience building security frameworks, libraries, developer tooling, or security automation in CI/CD pipelines.
- Exposure to AI systems or secure-by-default LLM applications is preferred.
- Experience identifying or fixing production security issues and working in 0-to-1 environments is preferred.
Benefits
- Flexible unlimited paid time off.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees and families.
- Life insurance, disability benefits, and a country-dependent retirement plan.
- Parental leave and fertility and family-building benefits through Carrot.
- Lunch, snacks, coffee, and a discretionary benefit stipend.
- Free alphorn lessons.
- Full-time employees may participate in equity plans subject to applicable policies.
- Primarily in-person work based in San Francisco, with offices across North America, Europe, and Asia; benefits may vary by region.
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About Sierra
Sierra builds an enterprise conversational AI platform that powers customer service and other customer-facing interactions for large organizations. The company sells SaaS and deployed solutions that integrate with enterprise systems and meet security and compliance requirements. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, Sierra was co-founded by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, longtime leaders at Salesforce, Facebook, and Google.