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Agentic security is the practice of discovering and governing the relationships between LLMs, MCP servers, and the APIs that let AI agents take action. The Salt Security Agentic Security Platform secures the full agentic ecosystem, discovering all agents, MCP connections, and APIs, stopping attacks in real time, and eliminating vulnerabilities before they reach production. Salt Security was founded in 2016 and is backed by Sequoia Capital, S Capital, Tenaya Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Advent International, and other leading investors. For more information, visit salt.security. \nAt Salt, we’re passionate about what we do. We work as a team and embrace new ideas, wherever they come from. We also enjoy all the benefits of a startup environment, including quickly seeing the results of your work, making an outsized impact on our company, and solving diverse challenges.\nWant to make a big difference? We encourage you to apply!\nAbout us\nAPIs are a foundational element of innovation in today’s app-driven world. From banks, travel, entertainment, retail, and transportation to IoT, autonomous vehicles, and smart cities, every web and mobile app depends on APIs. Without secure APIs, rapid innovation would be impossible. Salt Security is the only patented solution to identify and prevent the top threat of API attacks using big data and AI.\nAt Salt, we’re passionate about what we do. We work as a team and embrace new ideas, wherever they come from. We also enjoy all the benefits of a startup environment.\nFeel you’re up for the challenge? We encourage you to apply!\nAbout the position:\nSalt is looking for a team leader to lead the Data Pipeline engineering team. 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