Senior Engineer II, AI Security - Platform Engineering

About the role:

As an AI Security Engineer in the Platform Engineering team youll play a critical role in securing Forters high-scale real-time decision-making platform. Youll drive security strategy and execution for Generative AI including all external and internal products used or built by Forter. You will be managing the risks by designing controls and guardrails while striking a balance between development velocity and robust security. If youre passionate about AI and have the skills for building security into the foundations and code of fast-moving engineering teams this role offers the autonomy and impact youre looking for.

You will be responsible for safeguarding Forters highly sensitive internal data by designing access controls developing security features and deploying security products in the companys cloud tech stack including identity and access management network infrastructure security monitoring and automation and more.

You will represent the Security Team as a point of contact and source of knowledge working with management InfoSec and Legal teams and across the R&D department.

About the team:

We are a team of experienced security practitioners and hands-on engineers. We manage a complex set of cloud applications and infrastructure with petabytes of sensitive data in numerous datastores and thousands of cloud compute instances providing the logic for real-time decision making. Our product is based on ML and increasingly uses AI in its features and interfaces as well as development.

The main challenge we need to meet is the security and privacy of our highly sensitive internal data. We face sophisticated external attacks in a highly available production system and now threats related to increasing AI rollout and its rapid evolution. We work closely with product engineering teams building new products and features while also re-evaluating and overhauling everything the company built over the years. Our interfaces are Forters e-commerce customer companies but also the internal R&D teams Legal InfoSec and C-level management. We are enablers by nature and maintain an excellent working relationship with other teams across R&D.

Why should you join us

Take an active role with great impact and ownership potential work independently and within the team to shape the security process across Engineering during an active growth phase of the company.

What you will be doing:

• Own and innovate the security strategy for Forters use of Generative AI ensuring high development velocity while handling rapidly evolving threats.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to embed security best practices early balancing protection with development velocity.
• Perform risk assessments and negotiate with other teams on where to invest effort.
• Design build promote and maintain security infrastructure and tools used by all of Forters engineering teams.
• Mentor and build relationships with Security Champions in Engineering to design and build secure applications

Who You Are (Must-Haves)

• 5-6 years of experience in the relevant fields:
• 3 years experience in a security-focused role
• 3 years working with production systems in public cloud environments (AWS / GCP / Azure / Kubernetes) OR
• 3 years experience with programming and infrastructure-as-code (Python NodeJS Go Terraform CloudFormation etc.)
• Deep understanding of security across every layer of the tech stack (OS Network Application Database Storage etc.)
• Excellent communication skills including the ability to drive cross-team security initiatives

Nice-to-Have

• Experience with security in the AI model lifecycle LLMs and agentic AI
• Experience with threat modeling security audits penetration testing or SAST tools
• Contributions to security research blogs talks or open-source security projects

Benefits include:

• Competitive salary
• Quarterly company bonus
• Private health insurance including vision and dental coverage
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Generous PTO policy
• Half day Fridays every Friday
• Work from home allowance
• Pension plan with an option for salary sacrifice

About us:

Digital commerce is built on trust. At every point along the eCommerce journey businesses must make a critical decision: Can I trust this customer Answering this simple question accurately and instantly is powerfulit can accelerate revenue growth and strengthen a companys connection with its customers. How do we do it Forter was founded on the insight that its not about what is being purchased nor where but who is behind the interaction.

The Forter Decision Engine finds patterns across more than one billion identities in our dataset. We isolate fraudsters and protect customersensuring everyone gets the experience they deserve. Given that trust is central to how we operate Forter is very much driven by a defined set of values. We attract remarkable talent and have retention and engagement levels that are well above benchmarks. Were meticulous about strengthening our culture as we grow and ensuring this is an environment where people can have outsized impact.

Trust is backed by data Forter is a recipient of over 10 workplace and innovation awards including:

• Great Place to Work Certification ()
• Fortunes Best Workplaces in NYC (2022)
• #3 on Fast Companys list of Most Innovative Finance Companies (2022)
• Forbes Cloud 100 (2021 2022)
• SAP Pinnacle Awards New Partner Application Award (2023)
• Fintech Breakthrough Awards Best Fraud Prevention Platform (2023)

Life as a Forterian:

We are a team of over 500 Forterians spread across 3 different continents. Since 2013 weve raised $525 million from investors such as Tiger Global Bessemer Sequoia Capital March Capital and Salesforce Ventures. Were on a mission to bring trust to global digital commerce so that companies like Nordstrom Priceline Instacart and ASOS can block fraud drive revenue and improve customer experience.

At Forter we believe unique people create unique ideas and valuable experience comes in many forms. So even if your background doesnt match everything we have listed in the job description we still encourage you to apply and tell us why your skills and values could be an asset to us. By welcoming different perspectives we grow together as humans and as a company.

Forter is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that will consider all qualified applicants regardless of race color religion gender sexual orientation marital status gender identity or expression national origin genetics age disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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