Nooks
Security Engineer
San Francisco, Remote. Posted 4 months ago
The role
You will secure an AI-native platform and customer data by shaping the security program from the ground up. This includes securing AI agents and managing product surfaces.
What you will do
- Own security reviews and threat modeling for new and existing product surfaces.
- Build and improve core security processes including secure SDLC and detection and response.
- Harden cloud and application infrastructure and drive remediation of high-priority risks.
- Help define how to secure AI agents and govern their use.
- Support enterprise customer trust through compliance and customer-facing security needs.
- Partner with product and infra engineering to embed security into how they ship.
Required qualifications
- 3+ years of hands-on information security experience.
- Experience at a startup or early-stage company.
- Comfort with ambiguity, autonomy, and high ownership.
- Strong fundamentals in application and/or cloud security (AWS/GCP).
- Pragmatic judgment to prioritize risk.
- Clear communication and a collaborative, low-ego style.
Nice to have
- Experience securing AI agents / LLM systems or governing AI agent use within an organization.
- Enterprise compliance experience (SOC 2, ISO 27001).
Benefits
- Top-of-market compensation.
- Equity.
- Generous perks.
- Comprehensive benefits.
About the company
Nooks is an applied AI lab building revenue agents that power fast-growing companies. They build AI agents that operate across the full revenue lifecycle.