Staff Engineer - Security
Emergent Labs Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Technology, Information and Internet · 51-200 employees
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About the role
You will own security across the full stack, including AI-generated applications, agent pipelines, and cloud infrastructure. Your role involves building secure-by-design frameworks, defining security guardrails, and implementing runtime defense for multi-tenant environments.
What they look for
Requirements
The role requires 8-15+ years of security engineering experience with deep expertise in both application and cloud/infrastructure security. Candidates must possess strong coding skills in Python or JavaScript/TypeScript and experience securing high-scale, multi-tenant platforms.
Benefits
Full description
Emergent builds autonomous coding agents that replace traditional software development by generating, testing, and deploying production applications directly from plain-language intent. Our systems run in production at global scale and are used to build millions of real applications.
Since our public launch, we've crossed $130M in ARR and grown to over 10M users across 190+ countries, who have built 12M+ applications on Emergent. We're backed by Creaegis, Claypond, Sentinel Global, Khosla Ventures, SoftBank, Google, Lightspeed, Prosus, Together, and Y Combinator.
We're solving the hard part of AI-driven software creation: correctness, reliability, security, and scale in real production systems. The team is built by repeat founders, Olympiad medalists, IIT & IIM alumni, and leaders from Google, Amazon, and Dropbox.
We're hiring builders who want ownership, speed, and impact at global scale.
The Role:
Emergent runs a massive, multi-tenant, AI driven execution environment where code is generated and executed continuously. You will secure the infrastructure that powers autonomous software creation.
We’re looking for a Staff Security Engineer to own security across the full stack—from AI-generated applications and agent pipelines to cloud infrastructure and runtime environments.
You’ll:
- Secure AI-generated code, applications, and agent pipelines
- Design secure multi-tenant cloud & runtime environments
- Lead threat modeling, detection, and defense across application and infrastructure layers
- Build security controls for AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, containers, IAM, APIs, and CI/CD
- Defend against prompt injection, container escapes, privilege escalation, and data exfiltration
- Build scalable security frameworks and partner closely with engineering and product teams
What We’re Looking For
- 8–15+ years of security engineering experience
- Strong expertise across Application/Product Security + Cloud/Infrastructure Security
- Hands-on experience with AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, containers, IAM, APIs, and threat modeling
- Strong coding skills in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or backend systems
- Experience securing untrusted/user-generated code and multi-tenant systems
- Strong systems thinking and ability to drive security from architecture to implementation
Bonus: Experience with AI/LLM security, agentic systems, prompt injection, sandboxing, or large-scale execution environments.
Why Emergent
- Build security for AI systems that build software.
- Solve security problems spanning application, cloud, infrastructure, and AI systems.
- Operate at global scale across millions of applications and users.
- Work directly with founders and core engineering teams.
- Solve security challenges that are emerging with autonomous software creation.
Benefits and Perks:
- Daily Meals: Lunch and Dinner provided
- Family Insurance: 5 Lakhs worth of coverage for you and your family
- Unlimited Paid Time Off: Take the time you need to recharge and come back refreshed
- Flexible Working Hours: Work arrangements that fit your life and commitments
Let's build the future of software together.
