Valk AI Founding Security Engineer at Valk AI responsible for building and owning security across product, cloud infrastructure, and internal systems. The role includes customer security reviews and driving compliance readiness.
Responsibilities
You'll build the security foundations that allow our AI systems to operate safely in demanding enterprise environments. You'll own security across our product, cloud infrastructure, and internal systems, writing code, shipping controls, and working directly with engineers to identify and fix vulnerabilities.
You'll also own customer trust: explaining our architecture and controls to enterprise security teams, leading security reviews, and turning customer requirements into practical improvements. You'll work directly with company leadership and partner with Engineering, Product, AI Research, Sales, and Legal to set priorities and build the security function as Valkai grows.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Security engineers who ship: You have built and operated production software or security tooling. You can investigate an issue, write the fix, and own it through deployment.
Product and cloud security depth: You understand application vulnerabilities, cloud architecture, identity and access, secrets management, data flows, and tenant isolation.
Customer credibility: You can explain technical security decisions clearly to enterprise customers, work through diligence questions, and distinguish implemented controls from future commitments.
Practical judgment: You prioritize risks based on impact and exploitability, make clear tradeoffs, and help engineers build securely while keeping product development moving.
Clear collaboration: You work well across technical and business teams, document decisions, and follow through on remediation.
Guide Valkai's security roadmap. Assess our product, infrastructure, and internal systems, prioritize the highest-impact risks, and own remediation.
Build and strengthen authentication, authorization, tenant isolation, secrets management, encryption, and data-handling controls. Contribute production code and infrastructure changes alongside Engineering.
Secure AI agents and their integrations, including tool permissions, execution boundaries, access to customer data, and defenses against prompt injection and data exfiltration. Partner with AI Research and Product to test failure modes and implement safeguards.
Establish security logging, actionable detections, incident response procedures, and vulnerability management. Investigate issues, coordinate response, and implement fixes that prevent recurrence.
Qualification
Required
Experience building and operating production software or security tooling
Deep knowledge of product and cloud security
Ability to explain technical security decisions to enterprise customers
Strong practical judgment in prioritizing risks and tradeoffs
Clear collaboration skills across technical and business teams
