Staff Engineer – Security & Compliance

kAIgentic is building the intelligence layer for the world's most ambitious enterprises. Headquartered in Singapore with teams in India and Japan, our software platform helps large organizations evolve as fast as technology itself by turning the tacit know-how locked inside their people into safe, governed, AI-powered operations.

The hardest part of enterprise transformation is not strategy. It is execution. Institutional knowledge lives in people's heads, systems are fragmented, and risk tolerance is low. kAIgentic captures how work actually happens, designs better workflows, and runs them inside an intelligence layer that is observable, auditable, and engineered for the most regulated environments on earth. The outcome is an enterprise that continuously improves.

We are backed by SMBC Group as our founding partner and customer zero, and our platform is already being proven inside one of the most complex, regulated operating environments in the world. That means real problems, real data, and real production impact from Day 1.

The Role

As Staff Engineer on the Security & Compliance team, reporting to the Head of Security & Responsible AI, you are the lead technical authority for security architecture across kAIgentic's enterprise platform, driving that architecture into audit-ready compliance posture (ISO 27001/42001, SOC 2, and beyond) for a global banking client base. This is a rare combination: hands-on security architecture plus direct, day-to-day ownership of the compliance programs that prove it works, with strategic direction and final sign-off sitting with the Head of Security & Responsible AI.

What You'll Do

Security architecture (primary)

• Help define the long-term security architecture vision for kAIgentic's platform across all deployment regions, in partnership with the Head of Security & Responsible AI
• Architect bank-grade isolation models guaranteeing 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
• Lead the security model for agentic AI systems, including isolation of LLM contexts, secure prompt handling, and output validation, in coordination with the Responsible AI lead
• Establish cryptographic architecture: tenant-level encryption, key hierarchy, rotation policies
• Embed secure, Responsible-AI-driven SDLC practices directly into the AI-assisted/agentic development workflow, including eval-gate integration, guardrail enforcement in CI/CD, and securing the coding-agent-driven build process itself, not just applying traditional SDLC security to AI-generated output
• Evaluate emerging security technologies and threats in the agentic AI landscape
• Mentor leads and senior engineers on security architecture

Compliance ownership

• Lead ISO 27001/42001 and SOC 2 programs day to day, including control mapping, evidence collection, and auditor liaison, with final accountability held by the Head of Security & Responsible AI
• Contribute to and execute the audit strategy satisfying regulators across jurisdictions (MAS Singapore, FCA UK, FSA Japan, OCC US)
• Run vendor/third-party security risk reviews and own privacy posture (GDPR/CCPA as applicable)
• Own resilience planning (BCP/DR)
• Lead security due diligence for enterprise customers; represent kAIgentic's security and compliance posture to CISOs, auditors, and regulators
• Drive security culture and secure development practices across all engineering teams

Why join kAIgentic?

We are a global team of builders who thrive in ambiguity, care deeply about the customers we serve, and believe the intelligence layer is how enterprise work will be reshaped over the next decade. We are building the connective tissue that lets large companies operate with the speed of a startup and the trust of an institution.

We look for people who:

• Combine technical excellence with genuine customer empathy.
• Are entrepreneurial and energized by zero-to-one problems with no playbook.
• Lead with ownership, integrity, and collaboration, not titles.
• Want to help define a new category of enterprise AI, not just ship inside an existing one.
• Working here means being surrounded by peers who challenge assumptions, celebrate progress, and build with both courage and care.

Life at kAIgentic

• Intelligence layer at the core. You will be shaping the substrate that turns institutional knowledge into governed, production-grade operations. This is enterprise infrastructure with real consequences.
• Innovation at enterprise scale. Startup velocity meets the depth, scale, and stakes of mission-critical, regulated environments. Both are non-negotiable.
• Ownership from Day One. Your work directly shapes the product, the culture, and the outcomes our customers see.
• Learning and growth. You will work alongside seasoned leaders from leading enterprises who have built and scaled global businesses.
• A culture of trust. Psychological safety, transparent disagreement, and disciplined experimentation are how we operate, not slogans on a wall.
• Global collaboration. Teams across Singapore, India, Japan, Europe, and the US, working as one.
• A mission worth the effort. Building something the world has not seen before: an intelligence layer that helps enterprises continuously improve how they run.