Emergent

AI app builder that turns your ideas into monetizable software.

Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure Security

Bangalore
Job type
Full-time
Role
Engineering, Full stack
Experience
5+ years
Visa
US citizen/visa only
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Mukund Jha
Mukund Jha
CEO

About the role

Emergent builds autonomous coding agents that replace traditional software development by generating, testing, and deploying production applications directly from plain-language intent. Our systems run in production at global scale and are used to build millions of real applications.

Since our public launch, we've crossed $100M in ARR and grown to over 10M users across 190+ countries , who have built 12M+ applications on Emergent. We're backed by Creaegis, Claypond, Sentinel Global, Khosla Ventures, SoftBank, Google, Lightspeed, Prosus, Together, and Y Combinator.

We're solving the hard part of AI-driven software creation: correctness, reliability, security, and scale in real production systems. The team is built by repeat founders, Olympiad medalists, IIT & IIM alumni, and leaders from Google, Amazon, and Dropbox.

We're hiring builders who want ownership, speed, and impact at global scale.

The Role:
Emergent runs a massive, multi-tenant, AI-driven execution environment where code is generated and executed continuously. You will secure the infrastructure that powers autonomous software creation.

What You'll Do:

Secure Multi-Tenant Execution Environments

  • Design sandboxing strategies for untrusted code execution
  • Prevent container escapes, privilege escalation, and lateral movement
  • Build isolation at compute, network, and storage layers

Own Cloud Security Architecture

  • Harden AWS/GCP infrastructure across IAM, VPCs, secrets, and workloads
  • Design zero-trust systems across services
  • Build secure service-to-service communication

Runtime Security and Detection

  • Build detection systems for abnormal execution patterns, malicious workloads, and data exfiltration attempts
  • Integrate logging, SIEM, and real-time alerting

Secure CI/CD and Agent Pipelines

  • Protect build systems and deployment pipelines
  • Prevent supply chain attacks in AI-generated code
  • Ensure integrity of artifacts

What We're Looking For:

  • 5 to 8 years in Cloud or Infrastructure Security
  • Deep experience with AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, containers, and IAM and secrets management
  • Strong understanding of container security, network security, and runtime protection

What Sets You Apart:

  • Experience with sandboxed execution environments, serverless or ephemeral compute, and high-scale multi-tenant systems
  • You think like: "What happens when millions of unknown programs run on my infra?"

Why Join Us:

  • Build security for AI systems that build software
  • Operate at global scale with millions of apps and millions of users
  • Work directly with founders and core engineering
  • Solve problems that don't exist anywhere else yet

Benefits and Perks:

  1. Daily Meals: Lunch and Dinner provided
  2. Family Insurance: 5 Lakhs worth of coverage for you and your family
  3. Unlimited Paid Time Off: Take the time you need to recharge and come back refreshed
  4. Flexible Working Hours: Work arrangements that fit your life and commitments

Let's build the future of software together.

About Emergent

Emergent enables anyone to build production software by describing what they want in natural language. Our coding agents handle the entire development stack—from frontend design, database setup, app deployment, and scaling—translating domain expertise directly into working applications without requiring any coding knowledge.

Founded by Mukund Jha, and Madhav Jha, we've grown to 700,000+ users and $10M ARR in just 2 months from launch, making us one of the fastest-growing AI companies in history.

Our customers range from entrepreneurs launching SaaS products, to development agencies delivering prototypes to win deals, to Fortune 500 companies automating enterprise workflows.

Emergent
Founded:2024
Batch:S24
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Founders
Madhav Jha
Madhav Jha
CTO
Mukund Jha
Mukund Jha
CEO