This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Lead Security Engineer - Penetration Testing & AI Security based in India.
This role offers an opportunity to lead application and AI security initiatives across a highly scalable, cloud-native technology environment. You will focus on protecting up-to-date applications, APIs, microservices, and AI-enabled systems against evolving security threats. The position combines hands-on penetration testing, threat modeling, secure SDLC improvements, vulnerability management, and adversarial AI security testing. You will assess LLM applications, AI agents, RAG architectures, machine learning services, and third-party AI integrations. Working closely with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, and AI/ML teams, you will turn security findings into practical improvements and reusable safeguards. This is a Lead-level individual contributor role with significant technical influence and opportunities to mentor engineers. You will help shape security practices for a global,



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Accountabilities:
Lead Application Security initiatives across web, mobile, API, microservices, and cloud-native products, ensuring security is embedded throughout the development lifecycle.
Conduct architecture reviews, threat modeling, secure design and code reviews, penetration testing, and hands-on application security assessments.
Identify and validate weaknesses involving authentication, authorization, tenant isolation, business logic, data protection, and API security.
Define practical security standards, requirements, guardrails, and reusable secure engineering patterns for development teams.
Strengthen CI/CD security through SAST, DAST, SCA, secret scanning, container scanning, and Infrastructure as Code scanning.
Drive risk-based vulnerability triage and remediation in partnership with engineering teams.
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📌 Lead Security Engineer (India)
🏢 Jobgether
📍 India