Principal Agent Security Engineer
Sunnyvale, CA - USA
Job Summary
Responsibilities
- Build AI security solutions for enterprise customers.
- Design and implement security controls for agentic AI systems.
- Provide technical leadership across product development working closely with Product Engineering and QA teams to define architecture drive technical decisions and deliver secure and scalable solutions.
- Develop pre-sales and post-sales tools and environments to support customer evaluations deployments troubleshooting and integration.
- Own and operate production services including troubleshooting performance optimization reliability improvements and ongoing hardening of security-critical systems.
- Research emerging technologies and security trends to identify new opportunities and develop innovative solutions.
- Drive technical strategy and product roadmap including new feature design architecture evolution.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering skills in Python or Go or in a systems language such as Rust or C/C.
- Bachelors degree or above in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience building and operating production backend services including architecture ownership of security-critical and highly available systems.
- Strong system design and architecture skills with the ability to make sound technical trade-offs across security scalability reliability and performance.
- Self-driven and proactive with strong problem-solving debugging and technical leadership skills and a focus on delivering high-quality solutions.
Strong Plus
- Experience with LLM and agent security including areas such as prompt injection tool poisoning jailbreaks and agent security controls.
- Agentic AI architecture Deep understanding of MCP and A2A with hands-on experience designing and building agentic AI systems including tool-calling and agent frameworks.
- Cybersecurity background Professional experience in application security network security identity API security or other cybersecurity domains.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
About Company
From the start, the Fortinet vision has been to deliver broad, truly integrated, high-performance security across the IT infrastructure. We provide top-rated network and content security, as well as secure access products that share intelligence and work together to form a cooperativ ... View more