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 workplace. You will focus on protecting modern 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,



remote-first organization operating at significant scale.

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