Staff Security Software Engineer, Agentic Security Engineering
Databricks · Security
- Location
- Remote - California
- Workplace
- Remote
- Level
- Staff+
- Type
- Unspecified
- Pay
- $289K–$398K/yr (estimated from posting text)
- Posted
- 17 months ago
- Source
- Greenhouse
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What the posting covers
About Databricks
This role can be based remotely anywhere in the United States. About Databricks: Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 12,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the…
About the Team
The Agentic Security Engineering team is a horizontal, shared services engineering team that makes every Databricks security function AI-native — building the AI agents, "personas," and shared platform that security teams across the org (Detection & Response,…
The Role
As Staff Security Software Engineer, you own a major technical workstream designing and shipping production-grade AI agents and the platform capabilities that power them, with reliability, observability, and safe-by-default security as first-class…
Agentic Security Engineering Architecture
Design, ship, and operate production AI agents/personas that security teams depend on, starting with AI threat detection at scale. Build and harden the shared platform so any security team can ship agents safely and reliably — i.e., sandboxing, scoped…
AI Threat Detection at Scale
Lead the design and development of AI platform capabilities that operate at production scale — behavioral analysis of usage, detection of prompt injection attempts, and anomaly detection on agentic workflow behavior. Define the methodology for AI security…
Cross-Organizational Technical Leadership & Mentorship
Co-build with and enable partner teams across the security org, and mentor mid-level engineers. Lead design reviews, define team engineering practices, and drive continuous improvement in the quality and reliability of AI security tooling.
What We Look For
Demonstrated experience building, shipping, and operating production AI agents that others depend on, with an intentional pivot to AI-native transformation of a function at scale (prototypes and demos don't count). Expert-level Python for production systems…
Nice to Have
Research contributions or deep familiarity with adversarial ML, AI safety, or AI red-teaming methodology. Experience with MLOps platforms, AI serving infrastructure, or AI platform security at cloud scale. Familiarity with AI governance standards (NIST AI…
Pay Range Transparency
Databricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected base salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation…
About Databricks
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 20,000 organizations worldwide — including adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian, Unilever, and 70% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data + AI Platform to build and scale data and AI apps,…
Compliance
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