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Serval

Security Engineer, Application

San Francisco$200k–$325kfulltimemidAdded 2 weeks ago

About this role

Serval, an AI-native automation platform, is seeking an Application Security Lead to build and scale their product security program from the ground up. You'll establish secure development practices, lead a growing security team, and address novel challenges in agentic AI systems while partnering closely with engineering to embed security by design.

What you'll do

  • Design and operate application security program including secure SDLC, threat modeling, code review, and vulnerability remediation
  • Build, lead, and mentor a team spanning product security, secure software development, and vulnerability management
  • Establish engineering rigor through secure coding standards, libraries, and security design patterns
  • Implement and tune automated security tooling (SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets scanning, CI/CD gates)
  • Own vulnerability lifecycle from intake through triage, assessment, tracking, and coordinated disclosure
  • Partner with Engineering and Product to embed security in authentication, authorization, data protection, and agentic AI workflows

What they're looking for

  • Application security and secure software development (10+ years)
  • Building and leading product security and secure-SDLC functions
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals with code reading/writing ability
  • Modern application security tooling (SAST, DAST, SCA, fuzzing, supply-chain security)
  • Secure cloud-native and distributed-systems architecture
  • Leadership and cross-functional influence
  • Agentic AI security challenges (prompt injection, tool safety, data exfiltration)
  • Adversary tradecraft and threat modeling
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Serval

Serval builds an AI-native enterprise automation platform that enables intelligent workflow automation for sophisticated IT and security buyers. The company is hiring for technical pre-sales, infrastructure engineering, and security leadership roles to scale its cloud and self-hosted deployments while establishing comprehensive security foundations across its multi-tenant platform.

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Likely interview questions

  • Walk us through how you've built an application security program from the ground up—what were your first priorities, and how did you scale it as the engineering organization grew?
  • Describe your experience with threat modeling and secure design reviews. How do you embed security early in the development lifecycle rather than treating it as a gate at the end?
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