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We enable building the AI agents, \"personas,\" and own the shared platform that security teams across the org (Detection & Response, Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability & Product Security, Red Team, GRC, and Continuous Monitoring) build on to operate at machine speed, safely and reliably.\nWe leverage AI to transform how security is done.\nThe Role\nAs a Senior Staff Security Software Engineer on the Agentic Security Engineering team, you will be a senior technical authority and architect for Databricks’ shared Security AI platform.\nYou will define the platform architecture, technical standards, and multi-year engineering direction that allow security teams to build, deploy, and operate governed AI personas safely at scale. Your work will span secure agent identity, isolation and sandboxing, policy enforcement, auditability, observability, evaluation, orchestration, and reliable integration with Databricks and security infrastructure.\nYou will operate across organizational boundaries, aligning engineering and security leaders on platform architecture, driving adoption of common patterns, and resolving complex technical problems that affect multiple security functions. You will influence the quality, safety, reliability, and velocity of the broader Security AI ecosystem without owning the domain logic or business outcomes of every individual persona.\nThe Impact You Will Have\nShared Security AI Platform Architecture\nDefine and evolve the architecture for the shared Security AI platform and its paved road for governed agentic workflows.\nEstablish reusable patterns for agent identity, least-privilege access, sandboxing, egress control, secret isolation, policy enforcement, auditability, and rollback.\nSet engineering standards for reliability, observability, evaluation, incident response, cost instrumentation, and safe production deployment.\nMake high-leverage build, buy, and adopt decisions that keep the platform focused on security-specific capabilities while using Databricks platform primitives wherever they meet the need.\nDesign the platform to support secure multi-agent workflows, tool registries, policy-aware orchestration, and agent-to-agent collaboration.\nReliable and Safe Agentic Systems at Scale\nLead the design and development of production-grade platform capabilities that enable security personas to operate reliably across a growing AI and security surface.\nDefine how the platform measures successful runs, latency, failure rates, rollback readiness, safety, governance coverage, trust, autonomy, and business value.\nEstablish qualification and maturity mechanisms that determine what a security persona may do, what controls it requires, and how it earns additional autonomy.\nDrive technical solutions for high-risk workflows, including offensive security personas, untrusted inputs, sensitive data, production access, and automated tool execution.\nImprove the velocity of safe AI development without compromising security, governance, or operational reliability.\nCross-Organizational Technical Leadership\nServe as a technical authority for the shared Security AI platform across Security Operations, Product Security, Governance and Risk, Compliance and Assurance, Enterprise Security, and other partner functions.\nAlign engineering and security leaders on platform direction, architectural tradeoffs, adoption priorities, and standards for safe agentic systems.\nPartner with AI Champions and domain teams to turn recurring cross-functional needs into reusable platform capabilities.\nRepresent the platform in architecture reviews and technical decisions involving agent identity, isolation, policy, observability, evaluation, orchestration, and secure integration.\nDrive adoption of common platform patterns and retire duplicated or inconsistent implementations across security teams.\nMentorship and Team Capability\nMentor engineers on distributed systems, platform architecture, AI security engineering, agentic threat modeling, and technical leadership.\nLead high-rigor design reviews and raise the bar for reliability, operability, security, and maintainability.\nHelp establish a culture of measurable outcomes, disciplined evaluation, safe experimentation, and continuous improvement.\nInfluence technical direction beyond the immediate team through clear written proposals, architecture reviews, and cross-functional execution.\nWhat We Look For\n10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering, security platform architecture, or systems security, with a proven track record of operating at an L7/Senior Staff level at a major cloud, platform, or high-growth tech company.\n Production Systems Engineering: Exceptional fluency in Python and modern cloud-native systems architecture (Kubernetes, distributed streaming/storage, high-throughput microservices) with experience delivering fault-tolerant, low-latency security infrastructure.\nMulti-Org Architectural Execution: Demonstrated ability to align multiple VP/Engineering Director-level organizations on complex technical strategies and successfully ship multi-quarter architectural transformations.\nDeep practical expertise in AI/ML security, agentic system trust boundaries, prompt injection and tool-use risks, adversarial testing, identity and authorization, data protection, and secure deployment of AI-enabled systems.\nExperience designing platform guardrails for sensitive workflows involving untrusted input, privileged tools, secrets, production systems, or confidential data.\nStrong technical communication skills, including the ability to explain complex platform, security, and reliability tradeoffs to engineers, security leaders, and senior executives.\nA track record of raising the technical bar through design reviews, mentorship, written architecture proposals, and influence beyond formal reporting lines.\nNice to Have\nExperience building secure agent platforms, developer platforms, security control planes, or internal infrastructure used by multiple teams.\nExperience with MLOps, AI serving infrastructure, security data platforms, detection systems, or large-scale security 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The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected base salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to job-related skills, depth of experience, relevant certifications and training, and specific work location. Based on the factors above, Databricks anticipated utilizing the full width of the range. The total compensation package for this position may also include eligibility for annual performance bonus, equity, and the benefits listed above. For more information regarding which range your location is in visit our page here.\nZone 1 Pay Range\n$228,600—$314,250 USD\nZone 2 Pay Range\n$205,700—$282,800 USD\nZone 3 Pay Range\n$194,200—$267,100 USD\nZone 4 Pay Range\n$182,900—$251,450 USD\nAbout Databricks\nDatabricks is the Data and AI company. 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