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Salary: USD 245,000 - 245,000 / annual
Turing is an AI-focused company headquartered in San Francisco that works with frontier AI labs to generate high-quality datasets, reinforcement learning environments, and research benchmarks. The company also partners with Fortune 500 enterprises to build and deploy agentic AI systems in mission-critical workflows.
You will design and build the systems that keep Turing and its customers secure. This is a hands-on, builder-focused role where you'll spend most of your time architecting and shipping security infrastructure—detection pipelines, identity and access systems, secrets management, automated guardrails, and tooling that enables engineers to ship safely by default.
As a Staff engineer, you will set the technical direction for security systems, mentor engineers across the security organization, and act as a force multiplier by turning recurring manual security work into durable, self-serve platforms. You will balance threat models with developer experience and reliability, recognizing that security systems only work when people actually use them.
Key responsibilities include:
- Architect, build, and operate core security systems: detection and response pipelines, authorization and identity infrastructure, secrets management, key management, and policy-as-code frameworks
- Design "secure by default" paved paths so the easiest way to build is also the safest
- Lead technical design for large, ambiguous, cross-team security initiatives with design docs and trade-off analysis
- Build automation and tooling that scales security coverage without scaling headcount: automated vulnerability triage, CI/CD guardrails, drift detection, and self-service remediation
- Instrument and improve observability of security-relevant events across the stack
- Partner with product and infrastructure teams to embed security controls into systems being built
- Set and raise engineering standards for the security organization: code quality, reliability, testing, on-call practices, and operational excellence
- Mentor and grow engineers; serve as a technical leader and trusted advisor across the engineering organization
- Respond to and help lead remediation during security incidents, then build systems to prevent recurrence
Requirements:
- Significant experience (typically 8+ years) building and operating production software systems, with substantial focus on security engineering or security-critical infrastructure
- Deep hands-on engineering ability; strong software engineer first, comfortable owning services end-to-end in Go, Rust, Python, or Java
- Proven track record designing and shipping security systems or platforms that other engineers depend on (authz/authn systems, detection platforms, secrets/key management, security tooling, infrastructure guardrails)
- Solid grounding in security fundamentals: threat modeling, cryptography basics, identity and access management, network security, and common vulnerability classes
- Experience operating in modern cloud and infrastructure environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including containers, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code
- Ability to lead ambiguous, cross-team technical projects and influence without authority
- Strong written and verbal communication; can write clear design docs and explain nuanced trade-offs to both security specialists and general engineers
Nice to have:
- Experience with detection engineering, SIEM/data pipelines, or large-scale log analysis
- Familiarity with policy-as-code tooling (e.g., OPA), supply-chain security, or SLSA-style build integrity
- Contributions to open-source security tooling, or published research, talks, or writing on security engineering
- Prior experience as a technical lead or Staff+ engineer in a security or platform organization
