Novaintelligence

Senior Security Engineer

New York, Remote. Posted 6 months ago

The role

Senior Security Engineers will design, harden, and continuously test the security of the Nova platform. This includes owning platform security architecture, leading internal red team work, and solving identity problems in SAP.

What you will do

  • Own platform security architecture across cloud and on-prem deployments
  • Lead and extend internal red team work
  • Solve auth and identity problems in SAP
  • Raise internal security baseline for SSO, deployment pipelines, and secrets
  • Lead adherence to compliance frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and CCPA
  • Partner with customer security teams including CISOs and DPOs
  • Push the frontier on offensive and defensive AI for SAP
  • Represent Nova on security in the SAP community through writing, speaking, and publishing

Required qualifications

  • Deep, hands-on security experience in application security, cloud security (AWS), and identity and access management
  • Adversarial thinking from offensive or defensive engineering backgrounds
  • Informed opinions on AI security including prompt injection, agent action boundaries, tool-use vulnerabilities, and sandbox escape
  • Fluency in compliance frameworks SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and CCPA
  • Ability to communicate clearly with engineers and executives

Nice to have

  • Track record of public technical output such as writing, talks, CVEs, or open-source contributions
  • 5+ years of security engineering, security architecture, or offensive security work
  • Hands-on AWS security depth (IAM, KMS, networking, multi-account architectures)
  • Designing or hardening multi-tenant SaaS platforms in enterprise contexts
  • Leading SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, or comparable certification efforts
  • Familiarity with SAP, ABAP, or enterprise application security generally
  • Working directly with enterprise customer security teams

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Meaningful equity
  • Full health coverage
  • Dental coverage
  • Vision coverage

About the company

Nova Intelligence is building an AI platform for SAP teams to modernize legacy code and redesign business processes. The company was founded by AI researchers, repeat entrepreneurs, and the co-inventor of SAP HANA.