Surge AI
Software Engineer, Security
Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.
United States only
Employer listed it 7 days ago · Added yesterday
First listed 7 days ago and still open.
Salary
Not stated
Location
United States only
Timezone
US East
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Software
This employer didn't state pay. Jobs like this usually pay around $175k–$230k a year, a typical range taken from 595 senior-level software roles on Nomaders that do state pay. It's a guide, not an offer.
Remote flexibility
Work from home
This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in United States. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "United States - Remote, Remote"
- Job description states: "based in San Francisco and New York and"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Payroll and tax are likely handled in that country only
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About the role
Software Engineer, Security
About Us
Our mission is to raise AGI with the richness of human intelligence: curious, witty, imaginative, and full of unexpected brilliance.
Surge was founded by engineers and researchers who dreamed of building the next generation AI. We're building a platform that powers the most powerful models in the world in partnership with companies like Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and Meta.
At Surge, we believe the path to AGI isn't just about scaling compute. It's about embracing the unlimited ceiling of human intelligence and creativity in the data that shapes these systems. Our platform combines elite human expertise with cutting-edge tools for scalable oversight, from building rich RL environments to conducting rigorous evaluations that go beyond benchmarks. We've run a profitable business from day one without raising venture funding.
The Role
This is a senior, hands-on role for engineers who want to own security end to end.
This isn't an advisory role. You'll be an engineer on the team who owns security across the whole company, from product and infrastructure to corporate and IT, and you'll fix problems directly rather than surfacing them and handing them off. You'll be a pivotal part of an engineering team that takes security seriously and fixes things with you rather than treating it as someone else's job.
We are a small, dynamic team operating at the center of the AI ecosystem. The way security gets done is changing because of AI, and as a company that works with every major AI lab, we're at the frontier of it. You'll work closely with engineers and researchers from the top technology companies in the world.
What We're Looking For
7+ years of experience building and shipping production software (5+ with exceptional experience)
Strong software engineering skills: you'll go through the same coding and system design bar as our engineers
Competence across all three of product, infrastructure, and corporate security
A generalist who's comfortable owning a little bit of everything rather than a narrow slice
Early-stage startup experience, ideally as one of the first security hires at a company
A builder's instinct for ambiguity: comfortable operating without a fixed roadmap or product managers, and you fix problems yourself instead of throwing them over the fence
Experience with Python or Ruby on Rails a plus
CS degree from a top school or equivalent STEM background
What You'll Do
Fix authentication and authorization issues across the platform
Improve how we manage keys and secrets across projects
Harden internal tooling and bring off-band tools built by other teams safely into the platform
Refactor permissioning and pull sensitive capabilities out of our admin systems
Contribute to core backend engineering work alongside the engineering team
Requirements
The employer hasn't listed requirements separately, they're described in the role summary above and on the original listing.
Benefits
No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Surge AI, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (US East).
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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