Senior Software Engineer, Security Agents

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Responsibilities

• ▹Build autonomous security agents that perform alert triage, secure code reviews, threat modeling and vulnerability assessment
• ▹Develop agent orchestration systems that help security practitioners automate repetitive security tasks
• ▹Design and implement agent security controls to ensure AI agents can safely interact with sensitive enterprise data
• ▹Create the security infrastructure that allows agents to operate in high-trust environments with stringent deployment requirements
• ▹Ship production-ready agent capabilities that run efficiently in resource-constrained environments
• ▹Research and implement novel security patterns for AI agent systems, sometimes requiring custom solutions where standard libraries fall short
• ▹Conduct security testing of both the agents you build and the platform that runs them

Requirements

• ▹5+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of shipping user-facing security features
• ▹Strong Python development skills with significant production experience
• ▹Experience building or working with autonomous systems, AI agents or intelligent automation
• ▹Solid understanding of security principles including session management, authentication, authorization and secure coding practices
• ▹Ability to think about security at multiple layers: application security, agent behavior security and infrastructure security
• ▹Comfortable working across the full stack and diving into unfamiliar codebases to understand and fix issues

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Weekly lunch stipend ($75/£75 or equivalent in local currency)
• ▹Full health and dental benefits, including a separate mental health budget
• ▹RRSP matching, 401K, pension scheme
• ▹100% parental leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent
• ▹Annual enrichment benefits (arts & culture, fitness/wellness, workspace improvement)
• ▹Education and learning stipend for conferences and courses
• ▹6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days)
• ▹Travel budget to other offices for remote employees, plus an annual company offsite
• ▹$500 home office stipend

About the company

Cohere is a leading security-first enterprise AI company building cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that solve real-world business problems for enterprises building AI systems. The team spans researchers, engineers and designers, co-headquartered in Toronto and San Francisco, with offices in London, New York City, Montreal, Seoul, Germany and Paris.