Staff Security Engineer [Remote-US]

The posting, as Quanata wrote it

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About Us

Quanata is on a mission to help ensure a better world through context-based insurance solutions. We are an exceptional, customer centered team with a passion for creating innovative technologies, digital products, and brands. We blend some of the best Silicon Valley talent and cutting-edge thinking with the long-term backing of leading insurer, State Farm.

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Our Team

Quanata, LLC is an insurance technology innovation company that engineers advanced risk prediction and prevention solutions, develops risk-focused acquisition capabilities, and builds/supports a full-stack, flexible, digital & increasingly AI-native insurance platform. This helps our primary clients, State Farm and HiRoad Assurance Company, adapt to evolving market needs. Quanata, LLC is wholly owned and funded by State Farm.

As a company that prioritizes an inclusive and positive culture, we believe the core of our success is in hiring talented people — across disciplines — who want to help us make a quantifiable impact.

The Role

As a Staff Security Engineer, you’ll play a key role in securing the AI-enabled systems, applications, and platforms that power our organization. You’ll partner closely with engineering, product, infrastructure, and security teams to make security an integral part of how AI solutions are designed, built, deployed, and operated.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who is equally comfortable diving into architecture and threat models, evaluating emerging AI risks, and translating security requirements into practical engineering solutions. You’ll help secure everything from LLM applications and RAG pipelines to agentic AI workflows, third-party integrations, CI/CD pipelines, and AWS-native infrastructure.

Your impact will extend beyond AI. As a senior individual contributor, you’ll help shape our broader security strategy, establish scalable security patterns and standards, and influence technical decisions across the organization. You’ll have the autonomy to tackle complex security challenges and drive initiatives from strategy through implementation.

Your Day-to-Day

• Partner with engineering and product teams to embed security into AI-enabled products, internal applications, APIs, services, and platforms throughout their lifecycle.
• Lead threat modeling, security architecture reviews, and risk assessments for LLM applications, RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, MCP servers, model providers, third-party AI tools, plugins, automations, and AI-assisted developm

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twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave which may be taken within one year after the birth and/or adoption of a child. The twelve weeks is applicable to both birthing and non-birthing parent.

• Personal and Professional Development: We’re committed to investing in and helping our people grow personally and professionally. All employees receive up to $5000 each year for professional learning, continuing education and career development. All team members also receive LinkedIn Learning subscriptions and access to multiple different coaching opportunities through BetterUp.
• Location : We are a remote-first company for most positions so you may work from anywhere you like in the U.S, excluding U.S. territories. For most positions, occasional travel may be requested or encouraged but is not required . Some positions might require travel per the job description provided to the employee. Employees based in the San Francisco Bay Area or in Providence, Rhode Island may commute to one of our local offices as desired.
• Hours : We maintain core meeting hours from 9AM - 2PM Pacific time for collaborating with team members across all time zones.

Quanata, LLC is an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

If you are a San Francisco resident, please read the City and County of San Francisco's Fair Chance Ordinance notice. https://www.sf.gov/sites/https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2022-12/FCO%20poster2020_0.pdf

This role is employed by Quanata, LLC which is a separate company in the State Farm family of companies.

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