Staff Security Engineer

🕒 September 19

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $56 - $77 / hour

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Robots & Pencils

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

💰 Venture Round on 2022-04

Artificial Intelligence • B2B • SaaS

Robots & Pencils is a digital innovation firm that specializes in developing digital strategies and products utilizing mobile, web, and frontier technologies to drive transformation for businesses. They focus on areas such as mobile development, product design, UX research, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and organizational change management. With a commitment to blending creativity with technology, they aim to unlock data insights and enhance product innovation, ultimately delivering excellent customer experiences and helping brands gain a competitive edge.

📋 Description

• Define security architecture and engineering standards across web, API, and cloud-native systems, leading the hardening of complex services • Lead threat modeling and security design reviews across applications and AI systems, setting how risk is identified and prioritized • Architect cloud security controls across identity, network, and data layers, owning IAM strategy, secrets management, and encryption • Lead the integration of security automation into CI/CD pipelines, driving shift-left detection and policy-as-code across teams • Lead detection engineering, logging, and incident response practices across production systems • Own the security of AI and LLM-powered applications in production, defining defenses against prompt injection, data leakage, model abuse, and agentic-AI threats • Lead the design and integration of AI services into production security workflows, including LLM APIs, tool and function calling, and multi-step agent flows for detection and triage • Use tools like Claude, Cursor, and other modern AI assistants to ship higher-quality work at pace • Partner with product, engineering, and leadership to shape security strategy and align technical direction with business outcomes • Translate complex security tradeoffs, risks, and opportunities into clear narratives for technical and non-technical stakeholders • Lead security reviews and technical discussions, raising engineering rigor across the team • Engage with engineering, data, and client teams to align security work with business priorities and measurable outcomes • Define security architecture and engineering standards, including responsible AI practices • Mentor and grow junior and mid-level engineers through coaching, code reviews, and pairing • Own ambiguous, high-stakes work through production with attention to reliability, cost, and safety

🎯 Requirements

• Position is remote based in the US; applicants outside of the US will not be considered • 7+ years of professional security or software engineering experience • At least 3 years leading application and cloud security initiatives • Deep expertise in application security, secure coding practices, and the OWASP Top 10 • Strong experience with threat modeling, penetration testing, vulnerability management, and secure code review • Deep cloud security expertise across identity, network, and data layers • Strong experience embedding security automation and policy-as-code into CI/CD pipelines • Strong experience with detection engineering, logging, and incident response at scale • Strong experience securing AI and LLM-powered applications, including prompt injection, data leakage, model abuse, and agentic-AI threats • Experience with security, compliance, and governance frameworks • Demonstrated leadership and technical mentoring experience across a team or organization • Strong stakeholder communication skills, with the ability to translate technical depth across audiences • Demonstrable, day-to-day usage and expert knowledge of AI-forward tools such as Claude and Cursor • Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to navigate highly ambiguous technical and business challenges with sound judgment

🏖️ Benefits

• Paid time off • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 401(k)