Staff AI Security Engineer
Veeam Software · San Jose, United States · 1mo ago
Veeam is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient to enable the acceleration of safe AI at scale. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security posture management, Veeam is built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk. Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Join us as we go fearlessly forward together, growing, learning, and making a real impact for some of the world’s biggest brands.
About the Role
Veeam VDC Security Engineering builds and operates the security platform for a multi-cloud (Azure and AWS) SaaS serving regulated industries. This role sits in Platform Security and helps drive AI/LLM security as a discipline. You will help shape how VDC uses large language models safely (defensively, at scale) and how we use them offensively to find and fix real security defects faster than traditional programs allow.
What You’ll Do
- Design and ship the data-handling controls (code, filters, and infrastructure guardrails) for VDC's internal AI tooling and the AI features in our product. Redact sensitive data from prompts, model context, logs, and outputs before any of it reaches a third-party model provider
- Build and productionize an AI-enhanced vulnerability reduction capability that plugs into CI/CD, surfaces real defects with a low false-positive rate, and either recommends or applies remediation without eroding developer trust
- Publish and evolve a self-serve secure-LLM-use pattern for other VDC engineering teams, including input filtering, output validation, provider-tier data classification, and threat-model shortcuts for teams adding AI features to their products
- Threat-model internal AI tools for prompt injection, indirect prompt attack surfaces, model exfiltration, and agent-tool boundary weaknesses. Partner with the red team on findings, then build the fixes and guardrails with tool owners
- Partner with Compliance to shape auditor-facing evidence for AI-assisted controls, including which evidence formats hold up when the collector was an LLM and where human review must gate disclosure
- Contribute the AI-security lens to adjacent Security Engineering programs where LLMs touch the surface area: vulnerability management maturity, supply chain risk reduction, code owners routing, and compliance evidence collection
- Set VDC's direction on emerging LLM security tools and internal AI-forward workflows: what to adopt, what to skip, and what to build in-house
Technologies You’ll Work With
- Azure OpenAI Service and other Azure AI Foundry components
- Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, and multi-provider LLM APIs used across VDC internal tools
- Microsoft Presidio, custom redaction pipelines, or equivalent PII/secrets detection at the prompt boundary
- Cycode (SAST / SCA / Secrets) and Wiz for signal fusion into AI-driven remediation
- GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps for CI/CD integration of security-review LLM tooling
- Python and Go for the AI security tooling stack; comfort reading PowerShell and TypeScript for integration points
- Microsoft Sentinel and Log Analytics for the audit trail on AI-mediated security operations
What You’ll Bring
- 10+ years across security and engineering, with recent focus on AI/ML systems in production (LLM deployments, model risk, or AI-driven security tooling)
- Hands-on experience shipping controls (Code, infra or data gaurdrails) that operate on LLM inputs and outputs (redaction, filtering, output validation, prompt-injection defense)
- Build and tune detection systems that catch PII and secrets (API keys, credentials, personal data) across large, messy datasets, knowing when a regex rule is good enough, when you need a trained classifier, and when only an LLM can catch it, and justifying that choice on cost, latency, and accuracy grounds
- Track record of taking AI/security work from concept to production, including designing for developer trust and false-positive management
- Strong cloud security fundamentals across Azure and AWS: RBAC, secret management, key handling, network egress controls
- Turn ad-hoc "is this LLM use case safe?" questions into a reusable mechanism (a scoring rubric in PR templates, a lint rule, an approval gate) that teams run themselves, instead of a doc they read once or a person they ping
- Comfort building and hardening security tooling in Python and Go
- Familiarity with regulated-industry evidentiary expectations (SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, HITRUST) and how AI-generated evidence intersects with them
- Hands-on experience with agentic AI development environments (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot Enterprise) and their operational security implications
- A demonstrable track record of shipping production code (a code portfolio, open-source contributions, or internal build history). This is a hands-on building role, not an advisory one
Bonus Skills
- Familiarity with LLM attack techniques (prompt injection, indirect prompt attacks, tool-boundary abuse, model exfiltration) enough to threat-model and build defenses
- Background in traditional AppSec or SAST that translates cleanly to LLM-augmented vulnerability finding
- Contributions to open-source LLM safety or evaluation projects (Presidio, PromptFoo, Garak, etc.)
- Prior work with Azure OpenAI Service enterprise data-handling controls and LLM governance patterns
- Experience integrating security tooling into developer workflows without becoming a merge-blocking bottleneck
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What you'll get
- Unlimited paid time off, 12 paid holidays including 4 global VeeaMe Days for self-care and 24 paid volunteer hours annually through Veeam Cares
- Paid parental leave: 8 weeks for all parents, 16 weeks for birthing parents
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage starting on your first day
- Mental health support, therapy sessions, and digital wellness tools via our Employee Assistance Program
- 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions
- Fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support through Maven, plus paid volunteer time
- AirVet: 24/7 virtual veterinary care at no cost
- Legal services, identity protection, and supplemental health insurance options
- Tax-advantaged spending accounts for healthcare, dependent care, and commuting
- Opportunities to learn and grow through on-demand libraries (LinkedIn Learning, O’Reilly), mentoring, workshops, and learning events like our annual Global Day of Learning
Pay Transparency
Veeam is committed to pay transparency and equitable compensation. For this role, the compensation range below reflects the expected total target compensation (TTC), inclusive of base pay and a competitive performance-based bonus. For roles with a commission plan, the compensation range represents On Target Earnings (OTE), which includes base salary plus variable commission. When determining compensation, Veeam takes into consideration factors such as experience, education, skills, and geographic zone. Offers are typically made below the midpoint of the range.
In addition to compensation, Veeam provides a comprehensive benefits package, including health coverage, retirement plans, and unlimited time off.
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