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Senior Software Engineer - Application Security

Emergent· Engineering
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Hybrid (Bangalore)Full-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer focused on securing AI-generated applications at scale for Emergent, an AI app builder. Build security patterns, guardrails, and threat models for autonomous, AI-driven software generation and multi-tenant environments.

Responsibilities

  • Define security patterns for applications generated by AI agents
  • Enforce guardrails across auth, data access, APIs, and business logic
  • Build frameworks to ensure secure-by-default app generation
  • Design 'secure generation' systems and validate generated code (static + semantic)
  • Prevent insecure code from being produced by AI/agent pipelines
  • Detect prompt injection and adversarial input patterns
  • Own application threat modeling for dynamic app creation flows
  • Analyze risks in multi-tenant user-generated environments
  • Build reusable threat models for agent-driven systems
  • Build developer-facing security primitives (auth systems, permission frameworks, secure SDKs, API gateways, rate limiting, input/output validation for LLm-driven flows)
  • Conduct red team activities on AI-generated apps and feed learnings back into generation systems

Qualifications

  • 5–10+ years in Application Security
  • Strong coding ability (Python, JS/TS, backend systems)
  • Deep understanding of OWASP Top 10
  • Auth & session management
  • API security
  • Injection & sandbox escape vectors
  • Experience working closely with product/engineering teams

Skills

Required:PythonJavaScript/TypeScriptOWASP Top 10Auth & session managementAPI security
Nice to have:Prompt injection & input validation
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Build apps with AI - think it, describe it, ship it

Emergent is the AI coding platform builders use to create production-ready software. Describe what you want in the chat, and our coding agents handle everything else: frontend design, database architecture, backend logic, authentication, payments, deployment, and automatic scaling. We've grown to 700,000+ users and $10M ARR in just 2 months because we solved the real problem: the best software comes from people who understand the problems.

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