Security Software Engineer, AI & Automation

🕒 May 22

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $127k - $207k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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NerdWallet

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2009

💰 Secondary Market on 2021-05

NerdWallet is on a mission to help provide clarity for consumers and SMBs so they can make financial decisions with confidence. We work hard to cultivate an award-winning culture in which our Nerds can realize this mission, and we pride ourselves on the programs we’ve created to positively impact the lives of our consumers, our Nerds, and our wider world.

📋 Description

• Partner closely with security engineering and infrastructure teams to build automation and AI-powered solutions that help identify vulnerabilities, improve security reviews, and reduce risk across our platforms • Take ownership of security engineering initiatives that combine software development, AI systems experience, and security-first thinking to solve meaningful problems at scale • Design and build multi-agent LLM systems and routing logic that automate threat modeling, security design review, policy Q&A, and vulnerability analysis at scale • Develop retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines and semantic search systems across large code and documentation repositories • Create automated code review capabilities that help identify insecure patterns and improve software quality earlier in the development lifecycle • Design integrations with tools such as GitHub, Slack, Jira, Confluence, and cloud platforms to embed security guidance into everyday engineering workflows • Develop REST APIs and platform services with authentication, authorization, rate limiting, observability, and secure handling of sensitive data • Design and maintain scalable data processing pipelines for large codebases and document repositories, including extraction, indexing, stream processing, batch jobs, and parallel execution • Improve AI application security through controls such as prompt injection prevention, sensitive data filtering, supply chain security, and secure handling of model inputs and outputs • Enhance NerdWallet's secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC) through automation, tooling, and developer-friendly security practices • Partner with engineering teams to prioritize and remediate application and infrastructure security risks • Support incident response and on-call needs by contributing security engineering expertise, tooling, automation, and analysis when security issues arise • Identify new opportunities for automation and AI augmentation across the security team, bringing fresh eyes and independent thinking to a growing backlog of high-impact work

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of software engineering or security engineering experience • Strong proficiency in Python or Go for building production-grade backend services, APIs, and data pipelines; comfort moving between languages is expected • Experience building and maintaining backend services including REST APIs, authentication, authorization, rate limiting, streaming, and observability • Working knowledge of application security concepts including common vulnerability classes such as injection, broken authentication, cross-site scripting, insecure authorization, and secrets exposure; experience with threat modeling and SSDLC practices • Hands-on experience building AI-powered systems using LLM APIs, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, multi-agent architectures, and semantic search; working understanding of AI-specific security risks such as prompt injection, sensitive data exposure, and secure handling of model inputs and outputs • Genuine interest in AI and how it applies to security, not just as a tool to use, but as a domain to understand deeply, including its limitations and risks • Experience developing and operating distributed systems and cloud-based environments, including message queues, NoSQL databases, AWS, containers, Kubernetes or ECS, serverless, and infrastructure as code • Understanding of caching and performance patterns including Redis, semantic caching, TTLs, and cache invalidation • Strong communication skills, able to explain complex AI and security concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, and confident advising stakeholders on tradeoffs and limitations.

🏖️ Benefits

• Industry-leading medical, dental, and vision health care plans for employees and their dependents • Rejuvenation Policy – Flexible Vacation Time Off + 11 holidays + holiday company shutdown • New Parent Leave for employees with a newborn child or a child placed with them for adoption or foster care • Mental health support • Paid sabbatical after 5 years for Nerds to recharge, gain knowledge, and pursue their interests • Health and Dependent Care FSA and HSA Plan with monthly NerdWallet contribution • Monthly Wellness Stipend, Cell Phone Stipend, and Wifi Stipend (Only remote Nerds are eligible for the Wifi Stipend) • Work from home equipment stipend and co-working space subsidy (Only remote Nerds are eligible for these stipends)