Security Engineer

About the role

ABOUT TRAVERSAL

Traversal https://www.traversal.com/?utm_source=chatgpt.com is the AI Site Reliability Engineer (AI SRE) for the enterprise.

Production complexity was already outpacing what engineering teams could manage manually, and AI-generated code is accelerating that gap. Traversal is built for that challenge, autonomously understanding and reasoning across even the largest, most complex production environments to diagnose, fix, and prevent incidents. Our mission is to free engineers from endless firefighting and give them more time to focus on creative, high-impact work.

Today, Traversal operates in mission-critical environments at some of the world’s largest enterprises, including PepsiCo, Nubank, Harvey, and DigitalOcean. Our roots remain deeply embedded in AI research, and we’ve brought together researchers from institutions including MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Columbia, and Cornell with world-class technical staff and operators from companies like Google, Meta, Datadog, ServiceNow, and Citadel Securities to take on one of the hardest problems for AI to solve. Traversal is backed by Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint Ventures, and Khosla Ventures.

THE ROLE

As a Security Engineer at Traversal, your mission is to raise the security floor across the company by building AI-native security mechanisms tailored to how we work. This is not a compliance role, and it isn’t about the basics like adding SAST to pipelines. You’ll partner with our security leadership team to shape the security roadmap across product, cloud, and infrastructure, and you’ll own broad-scope projects within it: designing and shipping the secure foundations Traversal engineers build on, and driving us toward a future where automated verification, not manual code review, decides whether a change is safe to ship. You’ll also build security capabilities directly into Traversal’s products and cloud infrastructure to safeguard our enterprise customers and their data.

Traversal serves Fortune 50 enterprises across multi-tenant environments, BYOC deployments, and several compliance regimes. Your work will span application behavior, identity, infrastructure, deployment boundaries, data security, and access controls, continuously pushing Traversal’s security posture forward.

We welcome strong software and infrastructure engineers who have owned security-critical systems and want to specialize in security. We also welcome experienced security engineers who want to build. Either way, you’ll lead and deliver your area independently. This is a senior, high-impact role: you’ll own foundational security systems end to end. As your scope grows, you’ll also set technical direction across related work streams and build capabilities other teams adopt and extend.

RESPONSIBILITIES

- Secure Constructs & Paved Paths: Design and ship the libraries, defaults, and workflows that make the secure way to build at Traversal the easiest way.

- Security Invariants & Guardrails: Define and implement controls that continuously verify security properties across our products and cloud infrastructure.