# Software Engineer, Security at Exa

- Company: Exa
- What the company does: Search API for AI agents that need real-time web data, deep research, and structured content from one endpoint. Try our API for free. Backed by Lightspeed, Y Combinator and a16z.
- Company website: https://exa.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, California
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $180K to $350K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-27
- Apply by: 2026-10-11
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/exa/c4081592-fa8c-4fed-9041-70c62feee157
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/exa-software-engineer-security/

## About the role

Our ultimate goal is to build perfect search over all the world's information, far beyond Google. If you want to build massive-scale ML systems that will define the way the new AI world consumes information, this is the place for you.

## What they're looking for

- You have hands-on experience in building and maintaining secure infrastructure
- You know your way around cloud security fundamentals, including multi-account AWS permissions and architectures, IAM design, secure CI/CD pipelines
- You are fluent in secrets management, key management, and certificate lifecycles (rotation, revocation, automation)
- You have owned compliance efforts such as HIPPA, SOC2, etc
- You are comfortable with security hardening and any other details needed to make engineering systems run smoothly (VPN, development servers, etc.)
- You are super vigilant about vulnerabilities, potential attacks, and abuse, and constantly think about how to operate securely with the introduction of new technologies (OS-level, AI coding agents, etc.)

Tags: Engineering