Senior AI Security Engineer

We are looking for a Senior AI Security Engineer to secure enterprise microservices APIs across web and mobile environments using AI-driven detection, investigation, and governance. You will partner with engineering and business stakeholders to harden APIs, improve observability, and resolve security events.
Responsibilities
Implement security controls for web applications, APIs, microservices, and AI-enabled services
Design and implement observability for microservice REST and GraphQL APIs and end-to-end workflows
Leverage AI and automation to analyze telemetry, logs, security events, and traffic data to detect issues
Investigate and triage security and reliability events tied to configuration, agents, or integrations
Identify and mitigate risks from exposed endpoints and publicly accessible services
Coordinate with application teams, product owners, and stakeholders to resolve client-impacting issues
Communicate findings, risks, mitigation plans, and recovery status to technical and business audiences
Develop runbooks and troubleshooting procedures for recurring endpoint and API issues
Requirements
3+ years of experience securing APIs, web applications, and service-to-service communications
Experience with microservices architectures, REST APIs, GraphQL, and event-driven systems
Strong stakeholder collaboration skills to work directly with application teams and business partners
Proven incident triage experience across security events and service-impacting issues
Hands-on observability experience with logs, traces, metrics, and event streams
Strong AI scripting and automation skills for detection, investigation, and remediation workflows
Advanced knowledge of GraphQL security and API abuse prevention techniques
Solid understanding of AI security, including Generative AI and LLM application security testing
Clear communication skills for translating risks and mitigation plans to technical and business audiences
Ability to document operational runbooks and troubleshooting procedures
Upper-Intermediate English proficiency (B2)
Nice to have
Experience with Akamai Application Security, API Security, or Bot Manager
Experience designing observability with Grafana
Experience building monitoring and diagnostics in Dynatrace
Experience integrating signals and detections with Splunk
Experience using Langfuse for AI/LLM observability
We offer
International projects with top brands
Work with global teams of highly skilled, diverse peers
Healthcare benefits
Employee financial programs
Paid time off and sick leave
Upskilling, reskilling and certification courses
Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning library and 22,000+ courses
Global career opportunities
Volunteer and community involvement opportunities
EPAM Employee Groups
Award-winning culture recognized by Glassdoor, Newsweek and LinkedIn

Work arrangement
Yes