Senior Security Engineer, AI Security

Remote

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Work type: Remote
Location: Remote
Salary: $190,800–$267,100 / yr
Posted: 1 day ago

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $229k

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Reddit is a social news aggregation and discussion platform where users share content, vote on posts, and engage in community conversations across thousands of interest-based forums called subreddits.

Reddit currently has 130 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Security Engineer, AI Security

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As a Senior Security Engineer at Reddit, you will join the AI Security team to ensure the secure development and deployment of AI-powered products. Your day-to-day responsibilities include reviewing product designs, threat modeling AI workflows, and building reusable security primitives such as guardrails, scanners, and policy checks. You will work closely with various teams to define practical security controls that fit their unique needs while proactively identifying and mitigating risks. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of experience in application security and hands-on experience with backend engineering, security automation, and AI system risks. Familiarity with Go, Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript is preferred, along with expertise in securing distributed systems and cloud-native applications. This role requires strong technical judgment and clear communication skills to explain complex security issues to stakeholders across the organization.

Skills

Python Go JavaScript TypeScript Kubernetes CI/CD LLM AI security prompt injection jailbreaks data leakage agent sandboxing workload identity network policy tool permissioning ML systems model evaluation AI data flows data governance Terraform PostgreSQL

What you'll do

Review and threat model AI-powered product features, LLM integrations, and agentic workflows before launch.
Build reusable security primitives like guardrails, scanners, policy checks, and sandboxes for secure AI development.
Design tooling to detect and prevent prompt injection, jailbreaks, data leakage, and unsafe code generation in inference paths.
Define practical security controls that fit how teams design, build, and ship AI-powered products.
Turn one-off AI security issues into systemic fixes, measurable controls, and reusable guidance for broader impact.

What we're looking for

5+ years of experience in product security, application security, or related fields.
Strong background in secure design review, threat modeling, and vulnerability prioritization.
Hands-on experience building reliable backend services and security automation tools.
Familiarity with AI/LLM risks such as prompt injection, jailbreaks, and data leakage.
Practical understanding of infrastructure security concepts like cloud environments and runtime policy enforcement.

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