Senior Security Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote with quarterly in-person participation at a primary office in San Francisco or Portland; listed offices are San Francisco, New York City, and Portland, United States.

Salary: $100K–$200K plus equity.

Company

hirify.global develops C1, an AI-native identity security platform for human, non-human, and AI identities, with automation, platform-level AI, access visibility, fine-grained controls, just-in-time access, and automated access reviews.

What you will do

• Define security standards and secure-by-default solutions across application and cloud security.
• Build agents, skills, tooling, and automation that integrate risk-based security review, triage, enrichment, detection, and observability into the development lifecycle.
• Lead threat modeling and risk assessment for high-risk features, platform changes, agentic development practices, and AI-powered production features.
• Partner with engineering on API security standards, security code reviews, critical-threat remediation, and secure implementation.
• Identify systemic risks and lead multi-team remediation efforts from assessment through completion.
• Contribute to SOC 2, ISO 27001/42001, cross-domain security and compliance initiatives, and the growth of security practices across engineering.

Requirements

• Proven experience securing enterprise SaaS applications, including authentication flows, authorization patterns, and input validation at API boundaries.
• Experience securing software and infrastructure deployment and change-management mechanisms.
• Background in Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Systems Engineering, Network Engineering, Cloud Security, or Application Security.
• Hands-on code review experience, ideally in Go, Python, or Rust.
• Experience with AWS or another major cloud provider and comfort working across cloud infrastructure.
• Experience building agents and security automation that replace manual work, with examples or a walkthrough required during the process.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
• Current knowledge of modern security practices, tooling, emerging threats, and AI’s impact on the threat landscape.
• Quarterly in-person participation in San Francisco or Portland, Oregon is required.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kubernetes, service mesh, or PKI/network technologies such as Consul, Envoy, Cilium, Vault, or Istio.
• Experience building or extending internal security tooling, automations, or agents.
• Prior experience at a high-growth SaaS or identity/access management company.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on a small, early-stage security team with broad scope and meaningful ownership.
• Opportunity to specialize while contributing across security engineering, application and cloud security, and compliance.
• Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and comprehensive health benefits.
• Focus on practical security results, sound judgment, and securing products and development workflows by default.

Hiring process

• Provide one or more examples of an agent, skill, or automation that replaced manual security work, examples of AI coding or agentic workflows, or a live or recorded walkthrough describing the problem, approach, and impact.