California, United States Hybrid USD 160,000 – 200,000 / year

TwelveLabs is hiring a Staff Security Engineer

Responsibilities

  • Partner with the lead security engineer to identify risk, build controls, and drive security initiatives across the organization
  • Perform security assessments, penetration testing, and code reviews to find and remediate vulnerabilities across our applications and infrastructure
  • Integrate security tooling and controls into CI/CD pipelines and software development workflows, shifting security left without slowing teams down
  • Help design and enforce cloud security architecture across our AWS environment, including IAM, WAF, network segmentation, encryption, and runtime threat detection
  • Develop and continuously improve security monitoring, logging, and alerting capabilities to support incident detection and response
  • Participate in the security on-call rotation and assist with incident response and investigation as needed
  • Contribute to compliance efforts across SOC 2, GDPR, CMMC/NIST, etc., including audit support and policy development
  • Help secure AI/ML pipelines, model training infrastructure, and model artifacts including weights and deployment code
  • Build and maintain internal security tooling and automation to scale our program without scaling headcount
  • Partner with engineering, infrastructure, and IT to embed security practices directly into development and delivery workflows

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, cybersecurity, or equivalent experience
  • 8+ years in security, with hands-on experience across multiple domains rather than a single specialty
  • Proven experience with cloud infrastructure security on AWS, including multi-account design, IAM, network segmentation, and runtime threat detection
  • Solid understanding of Linux, networking, security monitoring, intrusion detection and response, authentication and access control, and security protocols
  • Proven experience with web application security assessments and penetration testing
  • Experience with Terraform or other IaC/configuration management tools
  • Familiarity with compliance frameworks like SOC 2, GDPR, and CMMC, including audit support
  • Experience building internal security tooling
  • Familiarity with securing AI/ML pipelines, model training infrastructure, or model artifacts (weights, serving infrastructure, or deployment code)
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to drive security initiatives cross-functionally without direct authority
  • U.S. Citizenship

Nice to Have

  • Have experience securing Kubernetes environments
  • Have hands-on experience implementing and administering a cloud security platform like Wiz or Tenable for security posture management, workload protection, and vulnerability visibility
  • Have hands-on offensive security or red team experience
  • Have worked at an AI or ML company and understand the threat landscape around model artifacts and pipelines
  • Run a home lab or pursue self-directed security research in your spare time

Benefits

  • An open and inclusive culture and work environment.
  • Work closely with a collaborative, mission-driven team on cutting-edge AI technology.
  • Full health, dental, and vision benefits
  • Extremely flexible PTO and parental leave policy. Office closed the week of Christmas and New Years.

Work Arrangement

Hybrid

Additional Information

  • Candidates must be able to travel up to 10% of the time annually to attend conferences, off-site meetings, and other business-related events as required by the role.
  • This role may require participation in on-site interviews and/or completion of in-person onboarding processes.
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TwelveLabs
Pioneers the development of cutting-edge multimodal foundation models that comprehend videos like humans do. Our models have redefined standards in video-language modeling. Headquartered in San Francisco with an APAC presence in Seoul.
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Job Details
Department Tech Engineering
Category security
Posted 4 months ago