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Partner 20, Staff Engineer, Security Automation

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Base Salary

$243k - $284k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Integrate SIEM, vulnerability scanners, EDR, identity, asset management, and ticketing systems into unified security workflows.
  • Centralize security data and build dashboards for asset inventory, vulnerability posture, exposure reviews, and compliance evidence.
  • Develop LLM-augmented workflows, agentic automations, and AI-assisted analysis and summarization.
  • Automate vulnerability management, asset hygiene, access reviews, and other cross-tool security processes.
  • Create tooling and reusable patterns that help Security Engineering and Incident Response teams adopt AI.
  • Collaborate with Security Engineering, Incident Response, SecOps, IT, and the Applied Software Group.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of security engineering experience with automation and tool-building as a core responsibility.
  • Experience shipping production-quality security tooling using Python or a similar programming language.
  • Hands-on experience building with LLMs or AI APIs and integrating AI into workflows.
  • Broad security fundamentals across cloud security, detection engineering, identity, and vulnerability management.
  • Understanding of prompt injection, LLM workflow data exfiltration, agent identity boundaries, and model risk.
  • Ability to explain technical security concepts, decisions, and trade-offs to non-technical audiences.
  • Strong collaboration skills, empathy, and a low-ego approach.

Benefits

  • The role requires in-office presence two days per week in the San Francisco, California office.
  • Eligible for the a16z carry program and discretionary bonus programs.
  • Benefits include health, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, a 401(k) plan, vacation, and sick leave.

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