We are looking for a Senior AI Security Engineer to secure enterprise microservices APIs across web and mobile environments using AI-driven detection, investigation, and governance. You will partner with engineering and business stakeholders to harden APIs, improve observability, and resolve security events.

Responsibilities

- Implement security controls for web applications, APIs, microservices, and AI-enabled services
- Design and implement observability for microservice REST and GraphQL APIs and end-to-end workflows
- Leverage AI and automation to analyze telemetry, logs, security events, and traffic data to detect issues
- Investigate and triage security and reliability events tied to configuration, agents, or integrations
- Identify and mitigate risks from exposed endpoints and publicly accessible services
- Coordinate with application teams, product owners, and stakeholders to resolve client-impacting issues
- Communicate findings, risks, mitigation plans, and recovery status to technical and business audiences
- Develop runbooks and troubleshooting procedures for recurring endpoint and API issues

Requirements

- 3+ years of experience securing APIs, web applications, and service-to-service communications
- Experience with microservices architectures, REST APIs, GraphQL, and event-driven systems
- Strong stakeholder collaboration skills to work directly with application teams and business partners
- Proven incident triage experience across security events and service-impacting issues
- Hands-on observability experience with logs, traces, metrics, and event streams




- Strong AI scripting and automation skills for detection, investigation, and remediation workflows
- Advanced knowledge of GraphQL security and API abuse prevention techniques
- Solid understanding of AI security, including Generative AI and LLM application security testing
- Clear communication skills for translating risks and mitigation plans to technical and business audiences
- Ability to document operational runbooks and troubleshooting procedures
- Upper-Intermediate English proficiency (B2)

Nice to have

- Experience with Akamai Application Security, API Security, or Bot Manager
- Experience designing observability with Grafana
- Experience building monitoring and diagnostics in Dynatrace
- Experience integrating signals and detections with Splunk
- Experience using Langfuse for AI/LLM observability

We offer

- International projects with top brands
- Work with integral teams of highly skilled, diverse peers
- Healthcare benefits
- Employee financial programs
- Paid time off and sick leave
- Upskilling, reskilling and certification courses
- Unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning library and 22,000+ courses
- Global career opportunities
- Volunteer and community involvement opportunities
- EPAM Employee Groups
- Award-winning culture recognized by Glassdoor, Newsweek and LinkedIn

EPAM is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

📌 Senior AI Security Engineer (Colombia)
🏢 EPAM Systems
📍 Colombia