Staff Security Software Engineer
Hybrid (SF Bay Area, CA)$230k - $360kFull-timePosted 7mo ago
About the role
Senior, hands-on security leader to build the security foundations for Luma as it scales, focusing on identity, access control, secrets, encryption, and safe operation of autonomous AI; partner with infrastructure, research, and product teams to make secure design the default.
Responsibilities
- Design and mature how access to production systems is granted and governed
- Implement scalable RBAC / ABAC approaches across infrastructure and products
- Build robust secrets management and credential lifecycle practices
- Establish strong encryption and key management patterns
- Define how agents and automated systems receive authority, how it is scoped, and how it is revoked
- Create auditability and forensic visibility for user and system actions
- Lead threat modeling across infrastructure, product, and research domains
- Collaborate with engineering teams to make secure patterns easy and automatic
- Help drive readiness for enterprise security expectations and reviews
- Strengthen incident detection and response capabilities
- Raise the company’s security bar while preserving development velocity
Qualifications
- You have built and operated security foundations in real production environments
- You are excellent at writing code, reviewing infrastructure, and shipping systems
- You recognize that in AI platforms, software systems can act with real authority
- You’ve thought deeply about how services, automations, or models are scoped, constrained, and observed
- You think in terms of systems and trust boundaries
- You have high agency—you identify problems and drive them to resolution
- You can balance pragmatism with long-term rigor
- Engineers trust you and enjoy partnering with you
Skills
Required:Access control architecture (RBAC/ABAC)Secrets management and credential lifecycleEncryption and key managementThreat modelingSecurity incident detection and responseSecurity auditing and forensicsSecurity governance for AI platformsCollaboration with engineering teams
Last updated Jul 15, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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