Lead Security Engineer
Other Engineering · Full-time
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Lead Security Engineer
What you'll do
- Drive adoption of secure coding practices, including practices specific to AI-generated and AI-assisted code.
- Conduct security assessments, threat modeling, and risk analysis so threats are understood, documented, and mitigated.
- Automate security processes wherever it creates leverage, using scripts, AI agents, and AI skills as your default tools.
- Identify emerging classes of vulnerabilities and build solutions before they become incidents.
- Build and maintain security tooling, automation, and monitoring capabilities, including custom agents and skills for security workflows
- Threat model agentic systems: prompt injection, tool misuse, unauthorized agent privilege escalation, and data exfiltration through agent actions.
- Define guardrails and human-in-the-loop checkpoints for agent-driven changes to code and infrastructure.
- Set and enforce review standards for code produced by AI coding agents, including required checks before agent-authored changes reach production.
- Break large, cross-team security projects into individual tasks. Manage scope across teams and drive projects to closure.
- Monitor, investigate, and respond to security incidents, coordinating remediation across teams.
- Support compliance initiatives and security audits with technical expertise and evidence.
- Evaluate emerging threats, including risks introduced by AI development tools, and recommend improvements to security architecture.
We are looking for someone with following skills
- 7+ years in security engineering or application security, with demonstrated staff-level scope: leading cross-team initiatives and setting technical direction.
- Understanding of risks unique to AI-generated code and agentic workflows: prompt injection, insecure dependencies introduced by agents, hallucinated logic, and excessive agent permissions.
- Comfort reviewing and verifying AI-authored code rather than writing everything from scratch, with a mindset built for a review-and-verify SDLC.
- Experience building or configuring custom agents or skills for security use cases such as threat modeling, code review, or incident triage.
- Hands-on experience using AI coding agents and skills (for example Claude Code, Copilot, or similar) in a production engineering workflow.
- Deep understanding of web application architecture and design principles.
- Knowledge of common security flaws and fixes as published by OWASP, SANS, and similar bodies.
- Strong grasp of application security concepts: authentication, authorization, encryption, secure coding, and common attack vectors.
- Experience running vulnerability assessments and managing remediation programs.
- Familiarity with security tools: vulnerability scanners, endpoint security, SIEM platforms, and monitoring tools.
- Experience investigating and responding to security incidents.
Reasons to join us
- Be part of a dynamic, professional, and highly collaborative Product & Technology team
- Work on cutting-edge applied ML problems at the intersection of AI, decisioning, and customer growth
- Combine deep technical work with real-world customer impact
- Help build a category-defining Customer Growth Engine
- Enjoy a competitive salary and work in an international environment with strong opportunities for growth and ownership
- Excellent hospitalisation, personal accident, and term insurance coverage.
- Located in a top-notch facility in Baner - one of the best neighbourhoods for tech startups.