Senior Security Engineer - AI & Agentic Systems
As a Senior Security Engineer, you will be a cornerstone of our security organization, responsible for architecting and scaling our defenses across Application Security, Cloud Infrastructure, and Security Operations (SecOps). However, we aren't looking for someone to run legacy security scanners or manually triage alerts and logs. We need a leader who will help us build the foundations where security challenges are understood, contextualized, and remediated by AI tools and agentic systems. If you are excited by the prospect of deploying a fleet of sub-agents to solve security issues or engineering intelligent agentic systems using cutting-edge tools and frameworks, this role is for you!
** Please note that this opportunity is located in New York, NY, and requires this hire to work from our office four days a week. **
As a Senior Security Engineer, you will:
- The Agentic Governance Problem: How do we safely deploy autonomous agents across a production environment? You will help lead the design of an Agentic Security Gateway - a control plane for autonomous systems that ensures agents operate within strict authorization boundaries, audit trails and safety guardrails
- Architect Agentic Loops: Manual vulnerability management doesn't scale. You will help define the strategy for using techniques such as Ralph loops or GSD and iterative reasoning to not only identify flaws but to autonomously verify and remediate them across our codebase and infrastructure.
- The Context Gap: You will explore how to use Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar protocols to bridge the gap between our telemetry data and our agentic fleet, ensuring our agentic systems have the "high-fidelity sight" needed to make decisions.
- Orchestrate Deep Agents & Sub-Agents: Develop the framework for launching specialized sub-agents. You’ll define “Skills" that allow a lead security agent to delegate tasks (e.g., deep data-flow analysis or IAM policy least-privilege auditing) to specialized, high-context sub-modules.
- Autonomous Remediation: Engineer the "paved road" where AI agents don't just alert us to a problem; they submit a verified, tested, and secure-by-default Pull Request that solves it.
- Scaling SecOps & Response: Alert fatigue is a systemic risk. You’ll help us reimagine the SOC by determining how specialized sub-agents and deep-reasoning loops can be used to investigate incidents and gather forensics before a human is even notified.
What makes you a great fit?
- The Agentic Mindset: You don't just use ChatGPT; you understand how to build and chain agents. You know the difference between a simple prompt and a complex agentic workflow involving tool-calling and multi-step reasoning.
- Deep AI Fluency: You have hands-on experience with Cursor, Claude Code, Open Code, Gemini CLI, Kiro CLI or Codex and you understand how to leverage MCPs to give AI "eyes" into your infrastructure.
- The Gateway Mindset: You understand that autonomous agents are the future, but they require a "trust but verify" architecture. You are obsessed with how to securely preface agentic actions with governance layers to prevent non-deterministic failures.
- Engineering Roots: You are a coder at heart with a strong security foundation. You speak the language of engineering teams and prefer building a custom agentic skill to solve a recurring architectural flaw rather than buying a legacy SaaS tool.
- Curiosity as a Core Competency: The AI landscape changes every 48 hours. You are the person who stays up late reading about new "deep agent" frameworks and Ralph loop optimizations just because it’s cool.
ABOUT VTS
VTS is the only AI-driven technology platform enabling intelligent real estate by unifying industry professionals, investors, and their customers at scale. In 2013, VTS revolutionized commercial real estate leasing operations with what is now VTS Lease. Today, VTS AI is the largest first-party insights and collaboration engine in the industry, transforming how strategic decisions are made and executed by the real estate industry globally.
With the VTS Platform, consisting of VTS Lease, VTS Market, VTS Activate, and VTS Data, every stakeholder in real estate is given real-time market information and workflow tools to do their job with unparalleled speed and intelligence. VTS is the global leader, with more than 60% of Class A office space in the U.S., and 13 billion square feet of office, residential, retail, and industrial space is managed through the platform worldwide. VTS is utilized by over 45,000 professionals and over 1.2 million total users each day, including industry-leading customers such as Blackstone, Brookfield Properties, LaSalle Investment Management, Hines, BXP, Oxford Properties, JLL, and CBRE.
VTS maintains offices in New York, London, Toronto, Chicago.
To learn more about VTS and view our open roles, visit us at vts.com or follow us on Instagram (@WeAreVTS) or LinkedIn.
Pay Transparency
At VTS, we pride ourselves on articulating a clear and transparent philosophy around equitable, impartial compensation that will allow us to recruit and retain an exceptional team. The base salary is market-driven at the time of offer and is based on tier 1 market data. The salary for this role will range between $155,000 and $190,000 and is determined by several factors, including your skills, prior relevant experience, quality of interviews, leveling, and geography.
EEO Guidelines
VTS embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. For more information about what we collect and how we use it, please refer to the Candidate Privacy Statement.
If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation at any time during the recruitment process, please let us know at ta@vts.com