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Security Engineer

Sazabi · San Francisco · On-site

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About Sazabi

Autonomous alerts. Conversational debugging. Coding agent integrations. Sazabi is a new, AI-first approach to observability. Built for teams who ship fast. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

Design and implement security across our entire stack (infra, app, data, and AI systems) Own authentication, authorization, and tenant isolation from first principles

What they're looking for

  • Strong experience in application and/or infrastructure security at a modern SaaS company
  • Deep understanding of common vulnerabilities (OWASP, auth flaws, data exfiltration, etc.)
  • Experience securing distributed systems and APIs
  • Comfort working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments without predefined processes
  • Pragmatic mindset: you know when to push hard on security vs. unblock shipping
  • Bonus: experience with AI/LLM security, observability systems, or developer tools
More about this role

In 2026, we're on the verge of an "infinite software crisis." How will we support, maintain, and operate the explosion in application development?

Our answer is Sazabi: the AI-native observability platform for fast-moving engineering teams.

Sazabi gives teams a single place to ask questions about their production systems in plain language, automatically visualize what's happening, and get to the root cause 10x faster. No tedious instrumentation. No dashboard configuration. No alert tuning. Just answers.

We're backed by tastemakers from the world's top AI companies: Vercel, Graphite, Daytona, Browserbase, LangChain, Mastra, Replit, and more.

Design and implement security across our entire stack (infra, app, data, and AI systems)

Own authentication, authorization, and tenant isolation from first principles

Build secure-by-default systems for log ingestion, storage, and querying

Identify and mitigate risks in an AI-native product (prompt injection, data leakage, model misuse)

Lead incident response and postmortems for security-related events

Establish security practices without slowing down engineering velocity

Work closely with engineering to embed security into everyday...

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