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More than 12,000 organizations worldwide - including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 - rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow.\nAbout the Team\nThe Agentic Security Engineering team is a horizontal, shared services engineering team that makes every Databricks security function AI-native - building the AI agents, \"personas,\" and 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 Staff Security Software Engineer, you own a major technical workstream designing and shipping production-grade AI agents and the platform capabilities that power them, with reliability, observability, and safe-by-default security as first-class requirements.\nYou set the standards for how agents are built and operated and co-build with partner security teams. Example use cases you'll enable, led by AI threat detection at scale (alert triage and false-positive reduction, fleet-scale anomaly detection), extend to threat hunting, vulnerability management, product security, red team/offensive testing, and GRC/assurance use cases.\nThe Impact You Will Have\nAgentic Security Engineering Architecture\nDesign, ship, and operate production AI agents/personas that security teams depend on, starting with AI threat detection at scale.\n\nBuild and harden the shared platform so any security team can ship agents safely and reliably - i.e., sandboxing, scoped least-privilege identity, observability, and a reusable agent/tool catalog.\n\nSet engineering standards and make reliability first-class - design review bar, latency/cost optimization, monitoring, clean CI-based deploys, and safe model upgrades.\n\nEstablish AI quality and evaluation practices: eval frameworks, LLM-as-judge (with bias controls), and regression gates that catch quality drops before production.\n\nAI Threat Detection at Scale\nLead the design and development of AI platform capabilities that operate at production scale - behavioral analysis of usage, detection of prompt injection attempts, and anomaly detection on agentic workflow behavior.\n\nDefine the methodology for AI security assessment: how Databricks systematically evaluates new AI capabilities against a comprehensive threat model before deployment and monitors them continuously after.\n\nDrive technical strategy for AI red-teaming tooling: automated adversarial testing platforms that simulate how real attackers attempt to abuse Databricks' AI systems.\n\nCross-Organizational Technical Leadership & Mentorship\nCo-build with and enable partner teams across the security org, and mentor mid-level engineers.\n\nLead design reviews, define team engineering practices, and drive continuous improvement in the quality and reliability of AI security tooling.\n\nWhat We Look For\nDemonstrated experience building, shipping, and operating production AI agents that others depend on, with an intentional pivot to AI-native transformation of a function at scale (prototypes and demos don't count).\n\nExpert-level Python for production systems at scale.\n\nDepth across the production-AI dimensions: agent architecture & orchestration; context & memory management; production operations (latency, cost, caching, monitoring, model upgrades, reliability); and AI quality & evaluation (eval frameworks, LLM-as-judge, regression testing).\n\nHands-on experience with modern agentic frameworks and LLM tooling (e.g., LangChain, Hugging Face, frontier models) and MCP-style tool integration.\n\nStrong technical communicator who aligns partners and drives adoption without direct authority.\n\n7+ years in software or security engineering, with demonstrated technical leadership on a significant workstream.\n\nTrack record of shipping high-quality security tooling that other teams depend on in production.\n\nNice to Have\nResearch contributions or deep familiarity with adversarial ML, AI safety, or AI red-teaming methodology.\n\nExperience with MLOps platforms, AI serving infrastructure, or AI platform security at cloud scale.\n\nFamiliarity with AI governance standards (NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, EU AI Act technical provisions) as they apply to security engineering.\n\nOpen-source contributions or publications in AI security, adversarial ML, or security tooling.\n\nPay Range Transparency\nDatabricks is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. 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$190,000—$261,250 USD\nZone 2 Pay Range\n$171,000—$235,200 USD\nZone 3 Pay Range\n$161,500—$222,100 USD\nZone 4 Pay Range\n$152,000—$209,000 USD\nAbout Databricks\nDatabricks is the Data and AI company. 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