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About the Role
The Security team at SmartNews protects and strengthens the company's overall security posture, working proactively across both product and corporate environments. The team monitors systems, detects threats, manages incidents and vulnerabilities, and sets security standards and policies. Security practices are embedded into product development and business operations, making protection a shared discipline.
Responsibilities
- Define security blueprints, threat models, and reference architectures
- Develop technical solutions to prevent or mitigate security vulnerabilities and strengthen overall system security
- Develop automated security solutions to seamlessly integrate security checks directly into developer and agent workflows and eliminate manual friction
- Build custom integrations between various security tools (e.g., network scanners, ASM, EDR) to provide real-time security observability for engineering teams
- Own the technical controls that make safe AI adoption possible
Requirements
- Proficient in English and Japanese to support a multinational engineering community
- Hands-on experience securing enterprise AI adoption at pace (third-party LLM integrations, MCP server onboarding, agentic tools acting on internal systems)
- A strict "Security as Code" mindset, viewing manual tasks as an automation failure and striving to build self-service security capabilities
- Detailed knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing, and mitigation technique
- A solid understanding of the intersection between DevOps and SecOps, with a track record of building high-velocity, secure engineering cultures
Skills
- Supply chain protection/SBOM scanning
- Designing technical guardrails for agentic systems
- AI protocol standards (MCP and A2A)
Location
- Tokyo
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Mid-level
Benefits
- All healthcare and social insurance required by the Japanese labor law
- Annual health check
- Visa sponsorship and overseas relocation support available for eligible candidates
About the Company
- SmartNews is a leading global information and news discovery company dedicated to delivering quality information to the people who need it.
- Leverages unique machine-learning technology and relationships with over 3,000 global publisher partners.
- Founded in 2012 in Tokyo, with offices in Osaka, Palo Alto, New York, and Singapore.