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.