Staff Security Engineer

Turing accelerates superintelligence and works with frontier AI labs and enterprises to develop datasets, research benchmarks, and agentic AI systems. The Staff Security Engineer will design, build, and operate security infrastructure and platforms, establish secure-by-default engineering practices, lead cross-team initiatives, and mentor engineers across the security organization.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, build, and operate core security systems and platforms: detection and response pipelines, authorization and identity infrastructure, secrets management, key management, and policy-as-code frameworks
• Design "secure by default" paved paths so that the easiest way for engineers to build something is also the safest way
• Lead the technical design for large, ambiguous, cross-team security initiatives — writing design docs, weighing trade-offs, and driving alignment across engineering
• Build automation and tooling that scales security coverage without scaling headcount: automated vulnerability triage, guardrails in CI/CD, drift detection, and self-service remediation
• Instrument and improve the observability of security-relevant events across the stack so detections are high-signal and actionable
• Partner with product and infrastructure teams to embed security controls into the systems they're building, rather than bolting them on afterward
• Set and raise engineering standards for the security organization: code quality, reliability, testing, on-call practices, and operational excellence
• Mentor and grow engineers, and serve as a technical leader and trusted advisor across the broader engineering org
• Respond to and help lead remediation during security incidents, then build the systems that prevent the next one

Requirements:

• Significant experience (typically 8+ years) building and operating production software systems, with a substantial portion focused on security engineering or security-critical infrastructure
• Deep hands-on engineering ability. You're a strong software engineer first — comfortable owning services end to end in a language like Go, Rust, Python, or Java — and you apply that skill to security problems
• Proven track record of designing and shipping security systems or platforms that other engineers depend on (e.g., authz/authn systems, detection platforms, secrets/key management, security tooling, or infrastructure guardrails)
• Solid grounding in security fundamentals: threat modeling, cryptography basics, identity and access management, network security, and common classes of vulnerabilities and how to systematically eliminate them
• Experience operating in modern cloud and infrastructure environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including containers, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code
• Ability to lead ambiguous, cross-team technical projects and influence without authority
• Strong written and verbal communication — you can write a clear design doc and explain a nuanced trade-off to both security specialists and general engineers
• Experience with detection engineering, SIEM/data pipelines, or large-scale log analysis
• Familiarity with policy-as-code tooling (e.g., OPA), supply-chain security, or SLSA-style build integrity
• Contributions to open-source security tooling, or published research, talks, or writing on security engineering
• Prior experience as a technical lead or Staff+ engineer in a security or platform organization