Staff Engineer - Security

The role

You will secure the infrastructure that powers autonomous software creation. You will own security across the full stack including AI-generated applications, agent pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and runtime environments.

What you will do

• Secure AI-generated code, applications, and agent pipelines
• Design secure multi-tenant cloud & runtime environments
• Lead threat modeling, detection, and defense across application and infrastructure layers
• Build security controls for AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, containers, IAM, APIs, and CI/CD
• Defend against prompt injection, container escapes, privilege escalation, and data exfiltration
• Build scalable security frameworks and partner closely with engineering and product teams

Required qualifications

• 8–15+ years of security engineering experience
• Strong expertise across Application/Product Security + Cloud/Infrastructure Security
• Hands-on experience with AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, containers, IAM, APIs, and threat modeling
• Strong coding skills in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or backend systems
• Experience securing untrusted/user-generated code and multi-tenant systems
• Strong systems thinking and ability to drive security from architecture to implementation

Nice to have

• Experience with AI/LLM security
• Experience with agentic systems
• Experience with prompt injection
• Experience with sandboxing
• Experience with large-scale execution environments

Benefits

• Daily Meals: Lunch and Dinner provided
• Family Insurance: 5 Lakhs worth of coverage for you and your family
• Unlimited Paid Time Off
• Flexible Working Hours

About the company

Emergent builds autonomous coding agents that replace traditional software development by generating, testing, and deploying production applications directly from plain-language intent. The company has crossed $130M in ARR and is backed by investors including Google, SoftBank, and Y Combinator.