Senior Software Engineer, Security & AI Platform
About Gusto At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers.
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Senior Software Engineer, Security & AI Platform at Gusto in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About Gusto At Gusto, we're on a mission to grow the small business economy. We handle the hard stuff — payroll, health insurance, 401(k)s, and HR — so owners can focus on their craft and their customers.
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- Strengthen core services and data protections, including access control, storage, and APIs.
- Detect and mitigate account takeover and other abuse, improving safety for our customers.
- Build security platforms and tooling that help product and AI teams move quickly and safely.
- Own and improve high-availability services that other teams depend on.
- Tackle ambiguous AI/LLM security problems from threat modeling to practical mitigations.
- Provide leadership in promoting security and software engineering excellence.
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- Strengthen core services and data protections, including access control, storage, and APIs.
- Detect and mitigate account takeover and other abuse, improving safety for our customers.
- Build security platforms and tooling that help product and AI teams move quickly and safely.
- Own and improve high-availability services that other teams depend on.
- Tackle ambiguous AI/LLM security problems from threat modeling to practical mitigations.
- Provide leadership in promoting security and software engineering excellence.
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- Strengthen core services and data protections, including access control, storage, and APIs.
- Detect and mitigate account takeover and other abuse, improving safety for our customers.
- Build security platforms and tooling that help product and AI teams move quickly and safely.
- Own and improve high-availability services that other teams depend on.
- Tackle ambiguous AI/LLM security problems from threat modeling to practical mitigations.
- Provide leadership in promoting security and software engineering excellence.
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