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Principal Agent Security Engineer

Fortinet


Job Location:

Sunnyvale, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 17 October 2026 (10 hours ago)
Application Deadline: 14 January 2027
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Description

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

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