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Decagon

Staff Security Engineer

Decagon, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199

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About Decagon Decagon is the leading conversational AI platform empowering every brand to deliver concierge customer experience. Our AI agents provide intelligent, human-like responses across chat, email, and voice, resolving millions of customer inquiries across every language and at any time.

Since coming out of stealth, Decagon has experienced rapid growth. We partner with industry leaders like Hertz, Eventbrite, Duolingo, Oura, Bilt, Curology, and Samsara to redefine customer experience at scale. We've raised over $200M from Bain Capital Ventures, Accel, a16z, BOND Capital, A*, Elad Gil, and notable angels such as the founders of Box, Airtable, Rippling, Okta, Lattice, and Klaviyo.

We’re an in‑office company, driven by a shared commitment to excellence and velocity. Our values—customers are everything, relentless momentum, winner’s mindset, and stronger together—shape how we work and grow as a team.

About the Team The Security Engineering team at Decagon protects the platform that powers the most advanced conversational AI agents for enterprise customers across voice, chat, email and SMS. We build the security foundations that enable Decagon’s AI agents to handle sensitive customer data with trust while defending against sophisticated, AI‑enabled threats at massive scale.

Our mission is to provide magical support experiences — ensuring that AI agents and human agents can collaborate safely to help users resolve their issues while maintaining the highest standards of security and privacy.

About the Role Lead the technical vision for securing Decagon AI’s customer experience platform that powers AI agents for enterprise customers. You’ll collaborate with our security leaders to architect our comprehensive security framework that protects against modern, AI‑enabled threats while maintaining an enterprise‑ready security and compliance posture. This role offers the opportunity to apply in‑depth AI security expertise and develop enterprise software architecture. Decagon’s team is some of the best in the industry, so you’ll work alongside a skilled and enthusiastic team.

In this role, you will

Design and implement our complete security framework covering customer‑facing products, infrastructure security, and enterprise integration points

Work with AI/ML teams to embed security into model training, fine‑tuning, and deployment processes to empower our research teams to innovate safely

Define security standards and practices for enterprise customers, including tenant isolation, data protection, and compliance frameworks

Lead security incidents affecting operations, or ensure rapid resolution while maintaining service availability

Mentor security engineers and broaden the engineering organization while establishing engineering practices that scale with rapid team growth

Your background looks something like this

Have 7+ years of industry experience in security engineering

Experience designing secure, multi‑tenant systems that handle millions of concurrent conversations

Knowledge of Google Cloud security architecture, including VPC security, IAM, and enterprise‑grade deployment patterns

Proven track record building security systems that meet enterprise expectations (SIEM, Vulnerability Management, IAM, compliance platforms)

Experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and other enterprise security requirements

Even better

Prior experience working with multi‑modal models

Deep knowledge of fine‑tuning security, model poisoning, and adversarial attacks specific to conversational AI

Skilled and motivated to take advantage of advanced reasoning and software development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, and Gemini for personal productivity improvements and design leverage.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Take what you need vacation policy

Daily lunches, dinners and snacks in the office to keep you at your best

Compensation $250K – $350K + Offers Equity

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