Serval
Security Engineer, Application
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 29 days ago
Code ReviewCI/CDAgentic AICybersecurityLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- You'll be a hands-on leader with deep technical credibility and strong engineering instincts.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate Serval's application security program, including secure SDLC practices, threat modeling, secure design review, code review, and remediation of vulnerabilities across our services, agent platform, integrations, and customer-facing surfaces.
- Build, lead, and directly mentor a team spanning product security, secure software development, and vulnerability management, hiring and scaling these functions deliberately and proportionately as Serval's platform and customer footprint grow.
- Establish world-class engineering rigor through secure coding standards, paved-path libraries and frameworks, security design patterns that scale security expertise across the engineering organization.
- Own the vulnerability lifecycle end-to-end: intake from internal testing, researchers, and bug bounty
- Partner deeply across Engineering, Product, and Infrastructure to embed security into Serval's systems by design, driving strong authentication and authorization, tenant isolation, data protection, secrets management, and the security of the agentic, tool-using workflows at the heart of the platform.
- Build a security program capable of withstanding sophisticated adversaries, including by tackling the novel application-security challenges of agentic AI (prompt injection, unsafe tool use, data exfiltration, and abuse of autonomous actions) and by using Serval's own agents to solve frontier security problems.
- Have deep experience building and leading application/product security, secure-SDLC, and vulnerability-management functions.
- Own the vulnerability lifecycle end-to-end: intake from internal testing, researchers, and bug bounty; triage and severity assessment; SLAs and remediation tracking; and coordinated disclosure.
- Growth: Build a fundamentally new AI product offering with the support of our experienced team and investors.
- Understand modern adversary tradecraft (TTPs) and how application-layer weaknesses are exploited, and have demonstrated experience translating that into practical secure-design guidance and prioritized remediation.
Requirements
- Have 10+ years in cybersecurity with deep expertise in application security, secure software development, and vulnerability management.
- Have exceptional written and verbal communication skills, can remain calm under pressure, and can effectively influence engineering and product decisions across a diverse gamut of teams, expertise, and seniority.
- Have deep expertise in modern application security tooling and primitives (SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets detection, fuzzing, software supply-chain security) and in secure cloud-native and distributed-systems architecture.
Benefits
- Bonus points if you're excited about the security challenges unique to AI agents.
Company info
- Serval http://serval.com is an AI-native automation platform transforming how enterprises operate. We build intelligent agents that understand real-world workflows and execute them end-to-end - replacing manual processes and rigid legacy systems with adaptive, learning software. Founded in early 2024, Serval is already trusted by companies like Fox, Notion, Perplexity, Vercel, and Brex to automate high-volume, high-friction operational work across their organizations.
- At the core of Serval is an agentic AI platform that turns natural language into production-grade workflows. Our agents don't just respond to requests - they reason, take action across systems, and continuously improve with usage. What began with operational use cases has quickly evolved into a horizontal AI automation layer used across IT, HR, Finance, Security, Legal, and Engineering.
- Our mission is to eliminate repetitive, manual work across the enterprise and give teams leverage through intelligent automation. Long term, we're building the universal AI operations layer - a system of agents that sits across business functions and runs the workflows that keep modern companies moving.
- We're backed by leading investors including Sequoia Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Meritech, First Round, General Catalyst, Elad Gil, and others.
- Serval http://serval.com is an AI-native automation platform transforming how enterprises operate.
- We build intelligent agents that understand real-world workflows and execute them end-to-end - replacing manual processes and rigid legacy systems with adaptive, learning software.
- Founded in early 2024, Serval is already trusted by companies like Fox, Notion, Perplexity, Vercel, and Brex to automate high-volume, high-friction operational work across their organizations.
- At the core of Serval is an agentic AI platform that turns natural language into production-grade workflows.
- Our agents don't just respond to requests - they reason, take action across systems, and continuously improve with usage.
- What began with operational use cases has quickly evolved into a horizontal AI automation layer used across IT, HR, Finance, Security, Legal, and Engineering.
- Our mission is to eliminate repetitive, manual work across the enterprise and give teams leverage through intelligent automation.
- Long term, we're building the universal AI operations layer - a system of agents that sits across business functions and runs the workflows that keep modern companies moving.
- Be a key player in shaping the success of our product and company.
- Join a culture that values innovation, ownership, accountability, and fun.
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