Security Engineer

Sazabi•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

In 2026, we're on the verge of an "infinite software crisis." How will we support, maintain, and operate the explosion in application development? Our answer is Sazabi: the AI-native observability platform for fast-moving engineering teams. Sazabi gives teams a single place to ask questions about their production systems in plain language, automatically visualize what's happening, and get to the root cause 10x faster. No tedious instrumentation. No dashboard configuration. No alert tuning. Just answers. We're backed by tastemakers from the world's top AI companies: Vercel, Graphite, Daytona, Browserbase, LangChain, Mastra, Replit, and more.

Requirements

Strong experience in application and/or infrastructure security at a modern SaaS company
Deep understanding of common vulnerabilities (OWASP, auth flaws, data exfiltration, etc.)
Experience securing distributed systems and APIs
Comfort working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments without predefined processes
Pragmatic mindset: you know when to push hard on security vs. unblock shipping

Nice To Haves

Experience with AI/LLM security, observability systems, or developer tools

Responsibilities

Design and implement security across our entire stack (infra, app, data, and AI systems)
Own authentication, authorization, and tenant isolation from first principles
Build secure-by-default systems for log ingestion, storage, and querying
Identify and mitigate risks in an AI-native product (prompt injection, data leakage, model misuse)
Lead incident response and postmortems for security-related events
Establish security practices without slowing down engineering velocity
Work closely with engineering to embed security into everyday development—not bolt it on later