Staff Security Engineer

Amplitude•San Francisco, CA

4h•Hybrid

About The Position

Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 4,700 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, and Square—build better products and digital experiences. With powerful AI Agents embedded across our platform, teams can analyze, test, and optimize user experiences faster than ever. Ranked #1 across multiple categories in G2’s Winter 2026 Report, Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product, data, and marketing teams. Learn more at amplitude.com. As an organization, we deliver for our customers by living our values. We operate from a place of humility, take ownership of problems and successes, approach challenges with a growth mindset, and put our customers at the center of everything we do. Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusion—one focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection—that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive. Amplitude is seeking an experienced Staff IT Security Engineer to design and build controls that define how Amplitude leverages frontier AI tooling at scale. This is a high-scope, hands-on position focused entirely on corporate and enterprise security, specifically tackling the risks that AI tools and AI-enabled workflows introduce into our environment. You will operate independently within a well-defined security program, partner closely with a Senior Staff IT Security Engineer, and align IT Security priorities while reporting directly to the CISO. This is an opportunity to have a significant impact, where you will be hands-on with building agentic solutions for detection, response and high-level automation. As a Staff IT Security Engineer, you will manage and execute day-to-day enterprise security operations across our corporate systems, including SaaS security posture, identity security (IdP/Okta), endpoint security, and access governance. This role is focused on enterprise-level problems and IT infrastructure security, not securing ML pipelines, models, or AI product features.

Requirements

Experience: 5–8+ years in enterprise/corporate security with hands-on depth in at least two of the following areas: identity (Okta), endpoint (CrowdStrike/Kandji), SaaS security, or detection engineering.
Autonomy & Ownership: You are a self-starter and self-managing, capable of working problems independently from initial triage through remediation; you execute independently within defined program direction.
Technical Skills: Ability to regularly write code or scripts (Python, Bash, or similar) to automate reviews, build detections, or debug configuration issues without looping in engineering.
AI Curiosity: A genuine curiosity about AI security is essential, and you are already thinking about risks from LLMs, agents, and AI-native tooling.
Communication: Excellent communication skills are paramount for coordinating cross-functional partners (Legal/Privacy, Engineering, IT) and presenting clear, tactical, and operational decisions to both technical teams and executive audiences.

Nice To Haves

Experience with DLP, SaaS security reviews, or third-party vendor risk processes.
Familiarity with AI tool governance: acceptable use, tool inventories, and data classification in AI contexts.
CrowdStrike detection engineering experience (custom IOAs, Falcon LogScale).
Familiarity with zero-trust architecture patterns, ZTNA, or CASB/SSPM tooling.
Python or scripting depth beyond basic automation.
Prior experience at a high-growth tech company with a small security team and large scope.

Responsibilities

Enterprise Security Operations: Manage and execute day-to-day enterprise security operations across corporate systems, including SaaS security posture, IdP, endpoint, vulnerability management, and access governance, leveraging AI-assisted tooling to accelerate triage, analysis, and documentation at scale.
Identity & Access Management: Execute complex Okta/IdP changes and maintain configurations for auth policies, adaptive MFA, SCIM provisioning, RBAC group management, and lifecycle automation. You will coordinate and execute access reviews across the enterprise to enforce least-privilege remediation, using AI tooling to summarize findings and draft stakeholder follow-ups.
AI Security & Governance: Be crucial in defining AI security by reviewing AI tool permissions, connector/integration configurations, and data-sharing settings. You will build and maintain AI-powered security automation—designing and operating agentic pipelines to automate repeatable security workflows (like app approval triage and access review summarization) and ensuring the security architecture of those pipelines is sound.
Detection & Response: Drive detection and response efforts by authoring CrowdStrike IOAs/IOCs, writing SIEM queries, and tuning alerts to reduce noise without losing coverage. You will handle incident triage, scoping, and containment, and produce post-mortem documentation in partnership with a senior engineer.
Risk & Compliance: Conduct vendor and SaaS tool security reviews (intake, risk evaluation, remediation tracking, and sign-off coordination). Produce security metrics and reporting for operational tracking and CISO/exec audiences.

Benefits

Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical, Dental, Vision on select plans
Flexible time off, paid holidays, and more
Generous stipends to spend on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness (monthly), commuter transit/parking (monthly), learning and development (quarterly), home office equipment (annual), and much more
Excellent Parental benefits including: 12-20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support, Back-up Child Care support
Mental health and wellness benefits including no cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy Sessions and high quality physician office experience via One Medical membership (select U.S. locations only)
Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

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