Senior Security Engineer
About the role
Senior Security Engineer role within Ambient.ai’s India Technology Engineering team focusing on strengthening security posture across products, infrastructure, and corporate environment, with hands-on responsibilities spanning security reviews, cloud and endpoint protection, vulnerability management, and customer security assurance.
Responsibilities
- Support security initiatives and reviews: plan and execute security initiatives across products, infrastructure, and corporate environment; conduct security reviews of systems, architecture, and proposed changes with actionable recommendations; improve security policies, technical standards, and operational processes.
- Support compliance programs and penetration testing: contribute to SOC 2 and ISO 27001 programs through control implementation, evidence collection, audit preparation, and remediation tracking; coordinate stakeholders, auditors, and external testing partners for assessments and penetration tests; work with engineering to address findings and validate fixes.
- Strengthen cloud and endpoint security: implement and maintain security controls across cloud infrastructure and employee endpoints; improve identity and access management, secure configuration, endpoint protection, logging, and monitoring; strengthen network and application defenses including DDoS protection and WAF; investigate security alerts and support incident response and follow-up improvements.
- Drive vulnerability management: identify, assess, and prioritize vulnerabilities across apps, infrastructure, endpoints, and third-party dependencies; partner with system owners for remediation timelines and closure tracking; improve scanning coverage, reporting, and automation to reduce recurring risks.
- Support customer and partner security assurance: complete information security questionnaires and respond to security due diligence requests; partner with Sales, Legal, and Engineering on security reviews and contract requirements; provide accurate documentation of controls and practices, flag gaps requiring review; maintain reusable responses and evidence to improve consistency and turnaround time.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of relevant experience in security engineering, information security, or infrastructure engineering with substantial security responsibilities.
- Hands-on experience securing cloud environments such as AWS and Google Cloud.
- Working knowledge of endpoint security, identity and access management, network security, encryption, and security monitoring.
- Experience with vulnerability assessment, risk prioritization, remediation tracking, and verification.
- Familiarity with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 controls, audit evidence, and compliance workflows.
- Understanding of application security fundamentals, including authentication, authorization, secure coding, and common web vulnerabilities.
- Ability to write scripts or automation in Python, Go, or similar language.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to explain security risks to technical and nontechnical audiences.
- Practical, collaborative approach balancing security with business needs.
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health + welfare package (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, EAP, Legal Services, 401k plan)
- Stock options for full-time employees
- Flexible time off, including Winter Break
- Cutting-edge equipment and branded gear
- Opportunities to connect with co-workers
- Company culture activities (hiking, food, music)
About Ambient.ai
AI company transforming enterprise physical security to prevent…
Ambient.ai is a computer vision intelligence company transforming enterprise security operations to prevent security incidents before they happen. The Ambient.ai platform applies AI and computer vision intelligence to existing sensor and camera infrastructure to deliver continuous physical security monitoring and automate the immediate dispatch of human resources. Ambient.ai is the first platform that goes beyond basic motion detection and image recognition to achieve near-human perception with automated situational context. With physical security incidents on the rise and physical security organizations left under-resourced, Ambient.ai’s computer intelligence platform comes at a time of critical need, which is why the company has raised over $50 million from venture capital investors led by a16z. Today, large enterprises, schools and organizations – including many of the largest US tech companies and other Fortune 500 companies – use Ambient.ai to secure property, people, and assets from the most harrowing physical security threats. The company was founded in 2017 by experts in artificial intelligence from Stanford who previously built iconic products at Apple, Google, Microsoft and Dropbox. We are backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), SV Angel, Y Combinator, and visionary angels like Jyoti Bansal, Mark Leslie and Elad Gil.
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