Security Engineer
Own and build the company’s security program as its first full-time security hire, covering product, cloud, infrastructure, incident response, compliance, and customer trust. The role requires hands-on security engineering and incident leadership, with experience operating SOC 2 or comparable frameworks.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead detection and incident response from signal and alert through postmortem.
- Own the security roadmap across product, cloud and infrastructure, corporate security, incident response, and compliance.
- Secure APIs, platforms, and data systems through threat modeling, design and code reviews, authentication and authorization controls, and secrets management.
- Build monitoring, detection, and incident-response capabilities; lead investigations and postmortems; and convert incidents and emerging threats into durable improvements.
- Own SOC 2 and customer trust, including control design, security questionnaires, policy management, vendor reviews, and audits.
- Partner with legal, commercial, engineering, and operations to translate customer contracts and data-license requirements into enforceable controls for data access, provenance, permitted use, retention, deletion, isolation, and auditability.
Requirements
- Strong security engineering fundamentals and hands-on experience across multiple areas, such as infrastructure security, detection and response, and identity.
- Experience leading security incidents end-to-end, from detection and containment through root-cause analysis and follow-up engineering work.
- Experience implementing or operating SOC 2 or a comparable security framework, including translating requirements into technical and operational controls.
- High agency, sound judgment, risk prioritization, and the ability to drive implementation.
- Strong communication skills for working with founders, engineers, operations, legal, auditors, customers, and external partners.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience as an early security hire or building a security program from scratch at a fast-growing startup.
- Experience securing AI/ML infrastructure, agent execution environments, data platforms, developer tools, or systems that run untrusted code or process sensitive data.
- Experience protecting licensed, proprietary, or customer-provided data and operationalizing contractual requirements around access, use, retention, and deletion.
- Experience finding CVEs, creating security tooling on GitHub, participating in bug bounty programs, giving conference talks, or writing security-related blog posts.
- OSCP, AWS Security Specialty, OSWE, CKS, or GIAC certifications.
Compensation and Benefits
- Very competitive compensation.
- Company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for US employees.
- Lunch and dinner in the office.
- Company-wide holiday break, PTO, and paid holidays.
- Equinox membership, 401(k), and commuter benefits for US employees.
- Access to AI coding and productivity tools, including ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Cursor.
- Full-time, on-site role with offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and Singapore.
- Relocation and visa support for strong candidates joining the US or Singapore offices.
Skills
Incident Response, Infrastructure Security, Cloud Security, Identity And Access Management, Threat Modeling, Authentication, Authorization, Secrets Management, SOC 2, Security Monitoring, AWS, Cves, Bug Bounty
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