Nectar

Senior Security Engineer

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3 months ago
Palo Alto, CA, USASenior
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$200k - $400k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own security for deployed applications through threat modeling, secure design reviews, and vulnerability remediation across services and AI infrastructure.
  • Lead compliance initiatives including SOC 2 and frameworks such as ISO 27001, GDPR, and CCPA.
  • Establish controls, policies, and evidence to support compliance programs.
  • Own security activities in the sales cycle, including customer security questionnaires, enterprise security reviews, and vendor assessments.
  • Build and operate vulnerability management, secrets management, identity and access, and security monitoring practices.
  • Manage third-party risk and the penetration-testing program.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience in security engineering, application or product security, or a related role at a software company.
  • Strong application and cloud security fundamentals, including the ability to assess production systems and AI workloads.
  • Hands-on experience leading or operating a compliance program such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001 end to end.
  • Solid programming skills for building security tooling and automation and collaborating with engineers.
  • Ability to work in a fast-moving startup environment with high ownership and autonomy.
  • Experience establishing a security and compliance function at an early-stage or rapidly scaling SaaS company is a bonus.
  • Familiarity with AWS, Pulumi, Postgres, ClickHouse, Turbopuffer, or Temporal is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Health, vision, and dental benefits plus a 401(k) match.
  • Competitive compensation and early equity.
  • Clear career growth opportunities as the company scales.
  • Free lunch in Palo Alto.
  • Work involves deep exposure to AI tooling.

Tech Stack

AWSClickHousePostgreSQL

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