Software Engineer, Security

Surge AI is building an AI platform that supports the development and evaluation of advanced AI models. The Senior Software Engineer, Security will own security end to end across product, infrastructure, corporate, and IT systems, while directly fixing security issues and contributing to backend engineering. The role includes authentication, secrets management, tooling hardening, security reviews, incident response, and permissioning improvements.

Responsibilities:

• Fix authentication and authorization issues across the platform
• Improve how we manage keys and secrets across projects
• Harden internal tooling and bring off-band tools built by other teams safely into the platform
• Refactor permissioning and pull sensitive capabilities out of our admin systems
• Contribute to core backend engineering work alongside the engineering team
• Own security reviews, incident response, and tooling, flexing across product, infrastructure, and corporate as the business needs

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience building and shipping production software (5+ with exceptional experience)
• Strong software engineering skills: you'll go through the same coding and system design bar as our engineers
• Competence across all three of product, infrastructure, and corporate security
• A generalist who's comfortable owning a little bit of everything rather than a narrow slice
• Early-stage startup experience, ideally as one of the first security hires at a company
• A builder's instinct for ambiguity: comfortable operating without a fixed roadmap or product managers, and you fix problems yourself instead of throwing them over the fence
• CS degree from a top school or equivalent STEM background
• We're based in San Francisco and New York and would love for you to be too. If you're a great fit elsewhere, we're open to remote, with some travel to spend time in person with the engineers you'll work with
• Experience with Python or Ruby on Rails a plus