About the role
Onyx is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build the core of our AI security platform and AI Control Plane.
You will build systems that help enterprises understand, monitor, and control how AI agents and LLM-based applications operate across their organization. We expect engineers to work in an AI-native way: leveraging and orchestrating AI agents to accelerate design, implementation, testing, debugging, and iteration, while owning the quality of the final result.
This role requires strong ownership, system design judgment, and the ability to turn complex AI-security problems into reliable production systems.
What you will do
Leverage and orchestrate AI agents and LLMs to design, build, test, debug, and ship core platform capabilities.
Build systems for monitoring, governing, and controlling AI agents, LLM applications, tool usage, prompts, context, policies, and runtime behavior.
Turn ambiguous AI-security problems into simple, scalable, production-grade systems.
Own technical decisions from design through production, working closely with Product, Security, and Engineering.
Requirements
What you will bring
5+ years of backend software engineering experience in production environments.
Strong system design skills and backend fundamentals: APIs, data modeling, scalability, performance, and reliability.
Proven ability to own complex systems end to end, operate independently, and create clarity in ambiguous situations.
Strong interest in AI, LLMs, agents, and the security challenges around their adoption.
Clear communication and strong cross-functional collaboration skills.
Nice to Have
Experience building production systems with LLMs, AI agents, or agent orchestration.
Experience in cybersecurity, cloud security, or enterprise security products.
What you will bring
5+ years of backend software engineering experience in production environments.
Strong system design skills and backend fundamentals: APIs, data modeling, scalability, performance, and reliability.
Proven ability to own complex systems end to end, operate independently, and create clarity in ambiguous situations.
Strong interest in AI, LLMs, agents, and the security challenges around their adoption.
Clear communication and strong cross-functional collaboration skills.
Nice to Have
Experience building production systems with LLMs, AI agents, or agent orchestration.
Experience in cybersecurity, cloud security, or enterprise security products.
