Staff Security Engineer, AI
Compa, Irvine, California +2
The role
Compa is an AI-first company, and we hold our own AI adoption to the same security bar our enterprise customers hold us to. Teams across Compa are putting agents and AI tools to work, and doing that securely at enterprise scale is frontier work: the industry playbook is still being written, and we're looking for a Staff Security Engineer who wants to help write it.
As a senior member of Compa's Security team reporting directly to the Head of Security and IT, you’ll build the systems that deliver secure, governed AI to the business: the identity, access, data, endpoint, and network foundation that lets people and agents work safely. Most of your near- and mid-term work is building that foundation. Because it's built from enterprise security primitives, that same work also strengthens and extends our broader security program.
You're a security engineer first. You reason about threats, identity, and trust boundaries before tools, hold a high bar for security and privacy, and measure success by what ships. You're also an enabler: you obsess over getting every piece to line up so that what's secure is also what's easiest to use. Strong pushback is expected where it's warranted; the usual answer is "yes, here's how": a secure path to the outcome, not the request at face value.