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Senior Security Engineer

200k – 400kPalo Alto, CAHybrid5+ YOE
Summary

First security engineer to own application security, compliance programs (SOC 2, ISO 27001), and enterprise customer security reviews for an AI-native social commerce platform.

About the role

What You'll Be Doing

  • Own the security of our deployed applications, including threat modeling, secure design reviews, and finding and fixing vulnerabilities across our services and AI infrastructure
  • Lead new compliance initiatives (SOC 2, and frameworks like ISO 27001, GDPR, and CCPA as we scale), establishing the controls, policies, and evidence to back them
  • Own the security side of the sales cycle: complete customer security questionnaires, support enterprise security reviews, and act as our expert in vendor assessments
  • Build and run our vulnerability management, secrets management, identity and access, and security monitoring practices
  • Manage third-party risk and our penetration-testing program

What We're Looking For

  • 5+ years in security engineering, application/product security, or a related role at a software company
  • Strong application and cloud security fundamentals; able to reason about the security of real production systems and AI workloads, not just policy
  • Hands-on experience leading or operating a compliance program (SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar) end to end
  • Solid programming skills to build security tooling and automation, and to work credibly alongside engineers
  • Comfortable operating in fast-moving startup environments with high ownership and autonomy

Bonus Points

  • Experience establishing a security and compliance function at an early-stage or rapidly scaling SaaS company
  • Familiarity with AWS, Pulumi, Postgres, ClickHouse, Turbopuffer, or Temporal

What We Offer

  • Competitive compensation and early equity
  • Health, vision, and dental benefits plus 401(k) match
  • Clear career growth opportunities as the company scales
  • Free lunch in the heart of University Ave. in Palo Alto
  • Deep exposure to cutting-edge AI tooling and the opportunity to shape how brands use it
  • A collaborative, ambitious team defining a new category of AI-native marketing infrastructure
Skills
AWSPulumiPostgresClickHouseTurbopufferTemporalSOC 2ISO 27001GDPRCCPA
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