Staff Engineer- Trust/Security


Location: Bangalore, India

Employment Type: Full-time

Experience: 12+ years

 

About kAIgentic

kAIgentic is a Singapore-headquartered startup, with presence across Singapore, India and Japan, on a mission to help enterprises evolve as fast as technology by turning their hidden know-how into safe, AI-powered operations. Most large organizations struggle to transform. Their tacit knowledge lives in people’s heads; systems are fragmented, and risk appetite is low. Our platform captures how work happens, designs better workflows, and runs them as governed by agentic operations. The result: organizations that continuously improve, instead of changing in slow, risky bursts.

We’re backed by SMBC Group as our founding partner and “customer zero”, and our platform is already being proven in one of the world’s most complex, regulated environments. That gives us access to real problems, real data, and real impact from Day 1.

 

The Role

As a Staff Engineer on the Security & Compliance team, you will be the technical authority for security architecture across kAIgentic’s enterprise platform. You’ll define the security and compliance strategy that enables global banks to trust our agentic AI systems with their most sensitive workflows.

What You’ll Do

  • Define the long-term security architecture vision for kAIgentic’s platform across all deployment regions
  • Architect bank-grade isolation models that guarantee zero data leakage between legal entities, business functions, and projects in multi-entity global deployments
  • Design the compliance-by-design framework ensuring auditability is built into every system, not bolted on
  • Own the security model for agentic AI systems including isolation of LLM contexts, secure prompt handling, and output validation
  • Establish cryptographic architecture including tenant-level encryption, key hierarchy, and rotation policies
  • Define the audit strategy that satisfies regulators across jurisdictions (MAS Singapore, FCA UK, FSA Japan, OCC US)
  • Design security patterns for human-in-the-loop systems ensuring perfect audit integrity for every intervention
  • Lead security due diligence for enterprise customers and represent kAIgentic’s security posture to CISOs and regulators
  • Drive security culture and secure development practices across all engineering teams
  • Evaluate emerging security technologies and threats in the agentic AI landscape
  • Mentor leads and senior engineers on security architecture

 What You’ll Bring

  • 12+ years of experience in security engineering, with deep experience in financial services
  • AI-native velocity as a default mode of working (mandatory)
  • Expert-level proficiency in Go and Python
  • Deep expertise in 4+ of the following:
  • Bank-grade security architecture for global deployments
  • Multitenant isolation at scale (data, compute, network)
  • Enterprise identity and access management
  • Cryptographic systems architecture and key management
  • Compliance frameworks across jurisdictions (SOC2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, MAS TRM, FISC, FCA guidelines)
  • Audit infrastructure for regulated environments
  • AI/ML security (prompt injection, data poisoning, model security)
  • Cloud security architecture at scale
  • Security operations and incident response
  • Proven track record working with banking regulators and external auditors
  • Experience representing security architecture to C-level stakeholders and regulators
  • Ability to translate complex security requirements into engineering systems
  • Exceptional communication skills for both technical and non-technical audience

Why join kAIgentic?

We’re a global team of builders who thrive in ambiguity, care deeply about customers, and believe in the power of AI to reshape enterprise work.

We look for people who:

  • Bring technical excellence and customer empathy together.
  • Are entrepreneurial and excited to work on zero-to-one problems.
  • Lead with ownership, integrity, and collaboration.
  • want to shape not just a product, but a new category of enterprise AI.

Working here means being surrounded by peers who challenge assumptions, celebrate progress, and build with courage and care.

What It Feels Like to Work at kAIgentic?

  • Innovation at Scale: Combine startup agility with enterprise-grade challenges.
  • Ownership from Day One. Your work directly shapes product, culture, and customer outcomes.
  • Learning & Growth – Work with seasoned leaders (ex-Microsoft, AWS, UiPath, Wipro, GE, Genpact) who’ve built and scaled global businesses.
  • A culture of trust and psychological safety where experimentation is encouraged.
  • Global collaboration across Singapore, India, Japan, Europe, and the US.
  • A shared mission to build something the world hasn’t seen before: AI Agents that continuously improve how enterprises run.
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