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Founding Security Engineer

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2 months ago

Responsibilities

  • Own cloud and infrastructure security across AWS and GCP, including guardrails, identity and network architecture, secrets management, and secure-by-default primitives.
  • Build security into product architecture and development workflows through design reviews, code review, authentication and authorization hardening, and reusable tooling.
  • Establish detection, logging, audit trails, and incident response for systems handling protected health information.
  • Secure the corporate and identity surface, including SSO, device and endpoint security, SaaS hardening, and employee lifecycle access.
  • Design isolation and data-flow controls for agentic AI systems to defend against sensitive-data leakage across model pipelines and tool use.
  • Build security automation and security-as-code supporting SOC 2, HIPAA, and HITRUST controls.
  • Partner with Legal, Compliance, and GTM to translate regulatory and customer requirements into practical controls.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in security engineering with a strong software engineering foundation.
  • Deep hands-on cloud security experience across AWS and/or GCP, including infrastructure as code and building security foundations.
  • Breadth across infrastructure, application, identity, and detection and response suitable for serving as the first security engineer.
  • Experience protecting sensitive data at scale; PHI, HIPAA, or similarly regulated data experience is preferred.
  • Experience designing security controls for LLMs, AI agents, and related data flows.
  • Demonstrated ability to move quickly, find shortcuts, and deliver against demanding goals.

Benefits

  • Fully covered medical, vision, and dental insurance.
  • Memberships for One Medical, Talkspace, Teladoc, and Kindbody.
  • Unlimited paid time off and 16 weeks of parental leave.
  • 401(k) plan, FSA option, commuter benefits, and DashPass.
  • Lunch at the office every day and dinner at the office after 6:30 pm.
  • Meaningful equity for full-time employees.
  • Fully in-person work in New York, with the team based in a SoHo office.
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