Security - Agentic Full stack developer

Role: Security Engineer – AI & Application Protection
Location: Hyderabad
Experience: 7+Years
**ADP is hiring an experienced agentic full stack developer who is security inclined (previous security champion experience)**
In this role, you will design and build protective security capabilities for **Generative AI, agentic applications, and modern application environments**. You will have opportunities to prototype and develop new security approaches where established patterns may not yet exist and scale existing systems to support adoption. You will write production code, build integrations and automation, develop and tune AI security controls, work directly with development teams, and help mature promising ideas into scalable enterprise capabilities.
You will join a highly capable DevSecOps team responsible for scaling protective capabilities and their policies for ADP's GenAI Guardrails and Web Application Firewall controls. You may also contribute significantly to agentic development security, agentic-based vulnerability detection, and other emerging greenfield initiatives.
Our mission is simple: automate repeatable security decisions while keeping humans focused on novel and complex problems—allowing our capabilities to mature at the pace of AI.
This role is ideal for a strong software engineer with significant AI development experience and a demonstrated security mindset who wants to deepen their cybersecurity expertise while contributing to meaningful security engineering problems.
## EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
* Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a relevant field such as computer science, computer engineering, or information technology
* 7+ years of experience developing production software
* Hands-on experience developing with Generative AI, including LLM APIs, agentic systems, RAG, tool use, or similar AI application patterns
* Demonstrated understanding of AI risks such as prompt injection, unsafe model behavior, sensitive-data exposure, and tool/agent abuse
* Experience with application security or AI security
* Strong DevSecOps fundamentals and systems understanding
## TECHNICAL SKILLS:
* Strong programming skills in at least one language such as Python, Java, Go, C#, or TypeScript/JavaScript
* Experience with APIs, web technologies, and modern application architectures
* Experience with SQL and data processing or transformation
* Experience with CI/CD technologies such as Jenkins or equivalent
* Experience with public cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
* Experience with, or ability to quickly learn, Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized services
* Experience with observability, telemetry, troubleshooting, and production systems is valuable
## RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Design, develop, test, and maintain production security software and services supporting AI and application protections
* Develop and tune LLM guardrails, scanners, detection logic, policies, and evaluation mechanisms
* Build security capabilities for agentic applications, tools, integrations, and developer ecosystems
* Evaluate emerging agentic and AI risks and develop practical engineering approaches to reduce those risks
* Build automation that turns recurring security work into scalable capabilities
* Contribute technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and hands-on problem solving
* Work directly with development teams on complex AI and application security requirements
* Support complex application protection and web application security reviews as needed.
Candidates coming from software engineering rather than a dedicated cybersecurity role are encouraged to apply. Successful candidates will need to demonstrate a strong security mindset, familiarity with application and AI security risks, experience acting as a security champion or equivalent, and the ability to rapidly develop deeper cybersecurity expertise.
This is an opportunity to build, experiment, and help define what comes next in a rapidly evolving environment.

Work arrangement
Hybrid