Security Engineer at Hark
San Jose, CA
$150,000–$300,000from the description
Jul 15, 2026
San Jose, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on security engineering role responsible for owning the full security function at an AI hardware and software company. Day-to-day work spans threat modeling, hardening cloud infrastructure (including Kubernetes and IAM), building detection and alerting pipelines, and leading incident response. The role also covers emerging LLM and AI agent security, an area without established playbooks, making it well-suited to someone with solid cloud security foundations who wants to work at that frontier.
Senior level · 4+ years · National · Full-time
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What the occupation pays Median $132,021 (middle half $99,961–$167,095). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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No specific work location or metro is stated in the posting; CBSA is left blank. The role may be remote or in-person at an unstated office — the JD does not specify.
The title 'Member of Technical Staff (Security Engineer)' carries no explicit seniority level, so advertised seniority is Unspecified. The 4–8 year experience range and scope (owning security engineering end-to-end) support a Senior classification.
AWS and GCP are listed together as interchangeable cloud platforms ('AWS/GCP') in the requirements section; AWS is used as the primary with GCP as the alternative.
Pulumi and Terraform are listed as interchangeable IaC options ('Pulumi, Terraform, or similar'); Pulumi is used as the primary with Terraform as the alternative.
The zero-trust networking tools (Tailscale, Cloudflare, HashiCorp Vault) appear under 'Bonus Qualifications' and are treated as preferred. They are listed together as examples of the same familiarity requirement, so Tailscale is the primary with the others as alternatives.
LLM/agent security curiosity is explicitly called out as a requirement ('Genuine curiosity about LLM and agent security'), making it a hard gate despite being a nascent domain.
The compensation range ($150,000–$300,000/year) is unusually wide, likely reflecting flexibility across seniority sub-levels within the 4–8 year band.
The posting cuts off mid-sentence ('may also include additional') — total compensation details (equity, bonus) are incomplete.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): detection engineering.
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