Security Architect - AI-Powered Security Engineering
Meesho
Bangalore, Karnataka, IndiaPosted 2 months ago
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Key highlights
- Role: Security Architect - AI-Powered Security Engineering
- Team goal: Zero downtime for millions of daily orders
- Vision: World’s most trusted and secure digital ecosystem by 2030
- Focus: AI-native, Zero-Trust, self-healing architecture
Role overview
The security team at Meesho is like the Avengers to Meesho's S.H.I.E.L.D., building resilient systems to manage millions of orders daily with zero downtime. By 2030, Meesho aims to be the world’s most trusted and secure digital ecosystem, operating on an AI-native, Zero-Trust, self-healing architecture. The role involves leading the AI-Powered Security Engineering charter, bridging conventional DevSecOps, infrastructure security, and AI. The mission is to ensure near-zero vulnerabilities from application and data security failures reach production, with a focus on advanced Red Teaming, LLM utilization, and defending autonomous AI systems against attacks like prompt injection, data leakage, and jailbreaking.
Responsibilities
- Guide and lead the AI-Powered Security Engineering charter
- Bridge the gap between conventional DevSecOps, infrastructure security, and the rapidly evolving landscape of AI
- Optimize the AI-driven Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) by designing secure-by-default guardrails for both human developers and AI coding agents
- Ensure near-zero vulnerabilities from application and data security failures reach production
- Focus on advanced Red Teaming
- Utilize LLMs to improve Meesho's security posture
- Architect defenses for autonomous AI systems against prompt injection, data leakage, and jailbreaking attacks
Requirements
- Highly technical, hands-on Security Architect (Individual Contributor)
Additional details
- The security team values speed over perfection and sees failures as opportunities to become better
- Meesho places special emphasis on the continuous growth of each team member, fostering a strong 'Founder’s Mindset' that helps the team move fast
- As of now, 5% of Indian households shop with Meesho, necessitating resilient systems
- Meesho aims to shift toward an era where autonomous agents generate and deploy code, requiring security to scale seamlessly with engineering velocity