Staff Security Engineer AI
AI-native marketing operations platform for enterprise teams.
About Gradial
Gradial provides AI agents and governed workflows that automate enterprise marketing execution across content, campaigns, assets, pages, email, localization, quality assurance, and connected systems such as CMS, DAM, ticketing, design, CDP, and marketing-automation tools.
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About the Role
You will set the technical direction for product and platform security and build the controls needed to operate secure agentic systems. You will lead threat modeling, harden applications and cloud infrastructure, establish detection and incident-response practices, and embed secure-by-default patterns into services and infrastructure. You will support customer security reviews and SOC 2 technical controls.
Requirements
- 8+ years of security engineering experience
- Principal- or Staff-level ownership of complex production systems
- Product security experience
- Threat modeling
- Secure architecture
- Authentication and authorization
- Multi-tenant systems
- Cloud security
- Kubernetes
- IAM
- Infrastructure as code
- Ability to secure LLM and agent-based systems
- Security incident response experience
- Experience writing and shipping production code, security tooling or infrastructure
- Clear communication with engineers, leadership and customer security teams
Responsibilities
- Define and drive product and platform security strategy
- Lead threat modeling for the agentic platform
- Design protections for agent behavior, permissions, isolation, customer data and platform boundaries
- Harden application and cloud infrastructure, production access, IAM, secrets management and the CI/CD supply chain
- Build secure-by-default patterns into agents, services and infrastructure
- Own security detection and incident response processes
- Represent technical security in enterprise customer reviews and architecture discussions
- Own technical controls supporting SOC 2
- Identify additional security capabilities and help hire future security team members
Benefits
- Performance-based annual bonus
- Equity awards
- Medical, dental and vision coverage for employees, with 75% coverage for dependents
- Fertility and family-planning support
- 401k plan
- Unlimited PTO
- Flexible work hours
- Seattle office with a gym, sauna and bike parking
- Free lunch three days a week
