Founding Security Engineer
Founding Security Engineer owning cloud (AWS/GCP), product, AI data, detection/response, and compliance (HIPAA/SOC 2) for a healthcare AI platform handling PHI at scale. Requires 7+ years security engineering on strong SWE foundation, hands-on IaC, and multi-domain expertise.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own cloud and infrastructure security across AWS and GCP: build guardrails, identity and network architecture, secrets management, and secure-by-default primitives.
- Build security into the product: lead secure design and code reviews, harden authentication and authorization, and ship libraries and tooling that make the secure path the easiest one.
- Own detection, logging, and incident response, including audit trails for protected health information access, and lead technical response to incidents.
- Secure corporate and identity surface: SSO, device and endpoint security, SaaS hardening, and access across the employee lifecycle.
- Secure agentic AI systems handling sensitive data: design isolation, data-flow controls, and defend against leakage in model pipelines.
- Build automation and "security as code" to enable fast engineering velocity; implement technical controls for SOC 2, HIPAA, and HITRUST.
- Partner with legal and GTM teams to translate compliance and customer requirements into shippable controls.
Requirements
- 7+ years in security engineering built on a strong software engineering foundation (design and implement, not just review).
- Deep, hands-on cloud security across AWS and/or GCP with real infrastructure-as-code experience (built security foundations, not just configured managed services).
- Range across multiple security domains: infrastructure, application, identity, detection and response.
- Experience protecting sensitive data at scale; familiarity with PHI and HIPAA is a strong plus.
- Comfort designing security for LLMs and AI agents.
- Track record of moving quickly, finding shortcuts, and going to unreasonable lengths to deliver.
- High NPS with former teammates.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience as the first and only security engineer.
- Background from underrepresented groups (encouraged to apply even if not all qualifications are met).
Skills
AWS, GCP, Infrastructure As Code, Cloud Security, Identity And Access Management, Network Security, Secrets Management, Detection And Response, Incident Response, SSO, Endpoint Security, HIPAA, SOC 2, Hitrust, Llm Security
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