Build autonomous AI agents that triage alerts, review code, and model threats for enterprise security teams

Cohere's North Security team is hiring a senior engineer to design and ship agentic systems — alert triage, secure code review, threat modeling, vulnerability assessment — that operate safely inside high-trust enterprise environments. The bar is 5+ years shipping user-facing security features with strong production Python, plus real experience building autonomous/AI-agent systems and reasoning about security at multiple layers.

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What this interview tests

Autonomous agent design and orchestration
Multi-layer security (application, agent-behavior, infrastructure)
Production Python at scale
Secure coding, auth/authz, session management
Security testing of agents and the platforms running them

Common question themes

Design an agent that safely triages security alerts with access to sensitive data

Defend against an agent being manipulated into unsafe tool use

Walk through a security feature you shipped end-to-end

Build a custom security control where standard libraries fell short

Debug and secure an unfamiliar codebase under time pressure

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