Platform Engineer, AI & Security

About the role

COMPANY OVERVIEW:

TENEX is an AI-native, automation-first, built-for-scale Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider. We are a force multiplier for defenders, helping organizations enhance their cybersecurity posture through advanced threat detection, rapid response, and continuous protection. Our team is composed of industry experts with deep experience in cybersecurity, automation and AI-driven solutions. Backed by leading investors, we are rapidly growing and seeking top talent to join our mission of revolutionizing the AI-Native MDR landscape.

We’re a fast growing startup backed by industry experts and top tier investors led by Crosspoint Capital Partners and also backed by Shield Capital, DTCP (formerly Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners), Deepwork Capital, and the Florida Opportunity Fund. Seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). As an early employee, you’ll play a meaningful role in defining and building our culture. Get in on the ground floor. We’re a small but well-funded team that just raised a substantial round – joining now comes with limited risk and unlimited upside.

Culture is one of the most important things at TENEX.AI http://TENEX.AI—explore our culture deck at culture.tenex.ai http://culture.tenex.ai to witness how we embody it, prioritizing the irreplaceable collaboration and community of in-person work.

As a Platform Engineer, AI & Security at TENEX, you work alongside our engineering team to expand how our platform connects with and operates across the security ecosystem. You combine software development with hands-on experience deploying enterprise security products to give engineers reliable integrations, representative environments, and reusable tooling for developing and validating new capabilities.

You will write software, deploy and configure security technologies, and understand how those products behave in practice from their APIs and authentication models to their configuration requirements and operational constraints. Your work will help engineering teams build and test capabilities across a broad range of security products and enterprise use cases.

You will:

- Deploy, configure, and maintain security products across cloud, AI security, network, endpoint, and identity domains to support engineering development and validation.

- Write and maintain software that connects with security vendor APIs, automates product setup, and makes integrations repeatable.

- Build reusable tooling for provisioning, configuration, testing, and troubleshooting across a diverse security technology ecosystem.

- Develop representative configurations and workflows that reflect how security products are deployed and used in enterprise environments.

- Partner with engineers building AI-driven capabilities to make security product functionality accessible, testable, and well understood.

- Investigate vendor APIs, permissions, data models, and product behavior; document integration requirements, limitations, and edge cases.