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Senior Security Engineer, Product & Platform

LiteLLM · San Francisco · On-site

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About LiteLLM

LiteLLM is the open-source AI gateway that puts your full AI stack behind one OpenAI-compatible key. Track and cap LLM spend, route to the right model, and self-host anywhere — even air-gapped. 140+ providers, 1,892 models. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

This is a hands-on individual contributor role reporting to our security lead. You’ll work directly with engineers to review and harden LiteLLM’s Python codebase, secure releases, and make security part of how we build. San Francisco is preferred, but not required. You’ll own your roadmap, implement improvements yourself, and make day-to-day decisions independently. You should be comfortable prioritizing competing risks and explaining the tradeoffs behind your decisions. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 7+ years of relevant experience, including independent ownership of a security scope
  • Experience hardening a production CI/CD pipeline, including GitHub Actions permissions and keyless signing
  • Strong knowledge of a major cloud provider, preferably AWS, including IAM, secrets management, and workload identity
  • Familiarity with Terraform
  • Ability to read production Python web-service code, identify vulnerabilities, and implement fixes
  • Experience building security tooling and guardrails that engineering teams adopted
More about this role

LiteLLM is an open-source AI Gateway that gives developers a unified interface to LLM providers. We’re looking for a Senior Security Engineer to secure our application, infrastructure, and software delivery pipeline.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role reporting to our security lead. You’ll work directly with engineers to review and harden LiteLLM’s Python codebase, secure releases, and make security part of how we build. San Francisco is preferred, but not required.

You’ll own your roadmap, implement improvements yourself, and make day-to-day decisions independently. You should be comfortable prioritizing competing risks and explaining the tradeoffs behind your decisions.

The ideal candidate has built and owned a product, platform, or infrastructure security program and knows how to turn security findings into lasting engineering improvements.

Review and harden LiteLLM’s Python codebase, fixing vulnerabilities and addressing their underlying causes.

Review sensitive pull requests and architecture changes before they reach production.

Harden our build and release pipeline, including GitHub Actions permissions, workload identity, signing, and credential handling.

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