Staff Security Engineer
fal is an active generative-media AI platform for developers, providing optimized model APIs, serverless deployment, and GPU compute.
Funding history
About fal
Founded in 2021 by Burkay Gur and Gorkem Yurtseven, fal provides infrastructure for production generative-media applications, including image, video, audio, 3D, and multimodal models.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You'll set the technical direction for security across GPU compute, multi-cloud and Kubernetes environments, inference APIs, and AI systems. You'll design the security architecture, build controls yourself, threat model AI workflows, run design reviews and vulnerability management, mentor engineers, and make secure-by-default the easiest path, using AI tools daily.
Requirements
- AI fluency: daily use of LLMs, agents, and AI coding tools
- 8+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ in hands-on security engineering
- Deep knowledge of cloud security (AWS/GCP), Kubernetes, Linux, and identity and access systems
- Strong in Python or Rust and ships production code
- Record of security improvements adopted by engineering teams, led without formal authority
- Explains security risk in business terms
Responsibilities
- Design isolation for multi-tenant GPU workloads, customer code, and model execution
- Protect model weights, customer data, and inference endpoints with identity, encryption, and access controls
- Harden cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and the software supply chain
- Threat model inference, agentic workflows, and internal AI tools
- Build guardrails for agents and AI tools
- Use LLMs and agents to automate security reviews, vulnerability triage, and remediation
- Own the security architecture and roadmap for highest-risk areas
- Run design reviews and publish secure patterns
- Run vulnerability management from discovery to fix
- Mentor engineers and raise the security bar
Benefits
- Equity
- Visa sponsorship and relocation help to San Francisco
- Health, dental, and vision insurance (US)
- Regular team events and offsites
