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Staff Engineer - Security

Emergent Labs

Responsibilities

  • AI-generated code, applications, and agent pipelines
  • Design secure
  • Lead
  • threat modeling, detection, and defense
  • across application and infrastructure layers
  • 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
  • Solve security problems spanning application, cloud, infrastructure, and AI systems.
  • Work directly with founders and core engineering teams.

Requirements

  • 8–15+ years
  • Strong expertise across
  • Application/Product Security + Cloud/Infrastructure Security
  • Hands-on experience with
  • Strong systems thinking and ability to drive security from

The Role

Emergent runs a massive, multi-tenant, AI driven execution environment where code is generated and executed continuously. You will secure the infrastructure that powers autonomous software creation.

We’re looking for a

  • Staff Security Engineer to own security across the full stack—from
  • AI-generated applications and agent pipelines to cloud infrastructure and runtime environments

You’ll

  • Secure multi-tenant cloud & runtime environments
  • Build security controls for

What We’re Looking For

  • of security engineering experience
  • 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 architecture to implementation

Experience with

  • AI/LLM security, agentic systems, prompt injection, sandboxing, or large-scale execution environments.
  • Why Emergent
  • Build security for

AI systems that build software

  • Operate at global scale across millions of applications and users.
  • Solve security challenges that are emerging with autonomous software creation.

Benefits and Perks

Daily Meals: Lunch and Dinner provided

  • Family Insurance: 5 Lakhs worth of coverage for you and your family
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off: Take the time you need to recharge and come back refreshed
  • Flexible Working Hours: Work arrangements that fit your life and commitments
  • Let's build the future of software together.