Runlayer

Runlayer

Member of Technical Staff - Security

Hybrid NYC / Remote (US Timezones) · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 29 days ago
PythonFastAPICI/CDdbtLLMsAgentic AICybersecurityPenetration TestingDetection Engineering

About the role

  • Excellence: Work alongside founders from Zapier's AI team and a team of senior engineers from top cyber backgrounds

Responsibilities

  • Build and improve Watch products: static and dynamic scanning for MCP servers, skills, plugins, and agent behavior detection on endpoints
  • Develop shadow detection: identify unregistered MCP servers, skills, plugins, and agents running outside governance across the enterprise
  • Own AppSec for the platform: penetration testing, vulnerability management, dependency scanning, and security hardening of the control plane
  • Build automated version scanning: CI/CD-integrated security checks that run on each new MCP server version, skill update, or plugin release
  • Build the security layer for the AI agent infrastructure category, directly shaping how enterprises adopt AI safely
  • Own detection products end-to-end, from threat modeling through shipped features
  • Looking for a security engineer, to join our small founding team, you'll build the security scanning and detection products that protect enterprise AI.
  • You own the Runlayer Watch products (static and dynamic scanning), shadow detection of unregistered agents and servers, and AppSec for the platform itself.
  • Impact: Build the security layer for the AI agent infrastructure category, directly shaping how enterprises adopt AI safely
  • Ownership: Own detection products end-to-end, from threat modeling through shipped features

Requirements

  • 8+ years in security engineering with deep experience in application security, security tooling development, or endpoint detection
  • Experience with shadow IT detection, asset discovery, or endpoint monitoring in enterprise environments

Nice to have

  • Experience with MCP, AI agents, or LLM security specifically
  • Network in enterprise security (SVCI, Israeli security community, etc.)
  • Professional development - budget for conferences, courses, and certifications in AI, enterprise software, and customer success.
  • Customer interaction opportunities - work directly with innovative companies and see the immediate impact of your work.

Skills

  • Already trusted by Gusto, Instacart, Opendoor, dbt Labs, Cursor, and Decagon.
  • Agent operators on Runlayer grew 5x in four weeks while human operators stayed flat.
  • AI is transforming how every company operates, but most enterprises are stuck.
  • They want to move fast with AI Agents, tools, and workflows, but they can't do it safely.
  • static and dynamic scanning for MCP servers, skills, plugins, and agent behavior detection on endpoints
  • identify unregistered MCP servers, skills, plugins, and agents running outside governance across the enterprise
  • Extend detection coverage to CLI agents (Codex, OpenCode) and browser-based agents

Compensation

  • Competitive salary and equity — compensation that reflects your expertise and customer-facing responsibilities.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity - compensation that reflects your expertise and customer-facing responsibilities.
  • Paid time off - paid vacation, paid sick leave, and paid parental leave.
  • Health benefits - comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.

This listing is sourced directly from Runlayer's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.