Lead Senior Security Engineer (Enterprise AI Platform)
Evolver Palo Alto, California, United States
IT Services and IT Consulting · 501-1,000 employees
About the role
You will lead the security architecture and implementation for an AI platform, ensuring it meets the rigorous standards of Fortune 1000 organizations. This involves designing secure deployment models, embedding security into the engineering lifecycle, and managing compliance and customer security reviews.
What they look for
Requirements
The role requires 8+ years of experience in security architecture and engineering, with deep expertise in cloud and application security. Candidates must demonstrate a strong track record of securing SaaS platforms and the ability to lead technical security discussions with enterprise customers.
Benefits
Full description
About Us
Evolver is building an AI platform that takes on core enterprise functions under the CFO agenda, including finance, tax, audit, risk, compliance, and operational efficiency. Our platform is deployed with Fortune 1000 companies and professional services firms to automate complex, regulated workflows that require high accuracy, strong governance, explainability, and enterprise-grade security.
We are looking for a Lead Senior Security Engineer to own and scale the security architecture, engineering practices, and customer deployment posture of our platform as we expand across large enterprise environments. This role will report directly to the CTO & Co-Founder and serve as the senior security leader responsible for ensuring that security is built into the platform, product architecture, and customer deployment model.
Role Overview
As Lead Senior Security Engineer, you will lead the security design, architecture, and implementation for Evolver’s AI platform. You will be responsible for ensuring that the platform, its cloud infrastructure, AI workflows, data pipelines, enterprise integrations, and customer deployments meet the security, privacy, and control expectations of Fortune 1000 organizations.
This is a hands-on leadership role. You will set security direction, define architecture, guide implementation, support enterprise deployments, and personally implement critical security capabilities. You will work closely with Cloud Engineers, DevOps Engineers, GenAI Engineers, and Forward Deployed Engineers to embed security into every layer of the platform and deployment lifecycle.
The ideal candidate combines deep technical security expertise with the ability to operate directly with engineers and enterprise customers.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead platform security architecture and implementation
Own the security architecture for Evolver’s AI platform across application security, cloud infrastructure, data protection, identity and access management, tenant isolation, auditability, and secure enterprise integrations.
- Design secure deployment patterns for Fortune 1000 customers
Define and implement secure customer deployment models hosted on cloud and/or within customer-controlled environments. Design deployment patterns that support SSO, RBAC, API integrations, customer-controlled environments, secure data ingestion from enterprise systems, tenant isolation, customer-specific encryption at rest and in transit, secure key management, private networking, and enterprise-grade monitoring and auditability.
- Embed security into engineering and operations
Partner with Cloud Engineers, DevOps Engineers, GenAI Engineers, and Forward Deployed Engineers to integrate security into CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, container deployments, secrets management, vulnerability management, monitoring, incident response, and production operations.
- Secure AI platform capabilities
Lead security GenAI workflows, including prompt and data isolation, retrieval security, model access controls, secure tool use, adversarial testing, output governance, audit trails, and controls around third-party model consumption.
- Serve as the senior security counterpart for enterprise customers and compliance
Lead technical security discussions with Fortune 1000 customers, support procurement and vendor risk reviews, translate customer requirements into platform capabilities, and partner with compliance teams on SOC 2, ISO 27001, SSPA, customer audits, control evidence, and security documentation.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in security architecture and engineering
Experience should include application security, cloud security, platform security, enterprise SaaS security, or security architecture for complex, data-intensive systems. Ideally, some experience securing AI platform capabilities.
- Proven ability to design and implement enterprise-grade security architecture
Strong track record securing SaaS platforms, cloud-native systems, customer-facing products, or platforms deployed into large enterprise environments.
- Deep hands-on cloud and infrastructure security expertise
Strong experience with cloud security architecture, preferably Azure, including IAM, networking, private endpoints, containers, key management, encryption, logging, monitoring, workload identity, and infrastructure security.
- Strong identity, access control, and application security background
Experience with SSO, SAML, OIDC, RBAC, service identities, least-privilege access models, secure SDLC, threat modeling, API security, secrets management, vulnerability management, and secure coding practices.
- Experience working directly with enterprise customers and cross-functional engineering teams
Ability to lead customer security reviews, procurement assessments, vendor risk discussions, and deployment security planning while partnering effectively with Cloud, DevOps, GenAI, platform, and Forward Deployed Engineering teams.
Benefits
- Competitive Compensation: Tailored to your experience and skill set.
- Flexible Work Arrangements: Hybrid working model for work-life balance.
- Career Growth: Opportunities for professional development and leadership roles.
- Innovative Culture: Work on transformative technologies and make an impact in the AI space.
- Comprehensive Benefits: We cover top-tier medical, dental, and vision insurance plans for employees, ensuring access to high-quality healthcare and peace of mind. Free lunch in office everyday.
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