Software Engineer, Security
About The Position
STLabs is an AI service management platform that resolves employee requests end-to-end using a living model of an enterprise, including its people, systems, services, and policies. The platform connects to customers’ sensitive systems and acts on their behalf, making security central to the product. The Software Engineer, Security will work alongside the infrastructure and platform team and own the detection, response, and remediation of security issues across the company’s cloud infrastructure, code, and AI agents. The role focuses on AWS and Kubernetes security, automated vulnerability remediation, AI-assisted security operations, customer credential protection, and software supply chain security. This is an on-site role at STLabs’ Midtown Manhattan office, five days per week, working alongside the founding team. The reasonably estimated yearly salary is $190,000–$250,000 USD.
Requirements
- Minimum 4 years of experience in security, infrastructure, or software engineering.
- Deep hands-on experience securing cloud-native systems on AWS.
- Ability to write production code and a preference for building small, effective systems.
Nice To Haves
- Experience building detection pipelines or leading incident response.
- Understanding of security risks in LLM-powered systems, including prompt injection and over-permissioned agents.
- Daily use of AI coding agents and considered opinions on using them safely.
- Experience building a security function from scratch.
Responsibilities
- Own detection and response across AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure.
- Build automated vulnerability remediation processes, taking advisories through tested fixes.
- Develop AI agents that triage security alerts and patch vulnerabilities, with engineers making the final decisions.
- Secure the storage, use, and rotation of customer credentials.
- Own supply chain security across dependencies, container images, and CI/CD.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits package.
- Opportunity to take ownership of critical systems that scale to millions of users.
- Supportive, collaborative setting.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
