We are looking for a highly technical Security Lead to own all security outcomes: infrastructure, compliance, external programs, and internal security. The ideal candidate is a backend/infra engineer who evolved into security, with experience owning security at a startup.
Requirements
- Highly technical — understands backend systems, infra, APIs, how things break. Can actually fix issues, not just identify them
- Extremely organized, high attention to detail
- High agency, scrappy, and urgent
- Extremely clear communicator - written and verbal
- Paranoid in the right way - thinks like an attacker to protect us
- Willing to push back, but trusted enough that people listen
- Highly available and responsive
- Always learning, loves to teach
- Builds systems that make you redundant over time
- 5+ years in security, has owned a program before
- Low-ego - cares about outcomes, not credit
- Uses modern tools (AI agents), and stays current on threat landscape
- Constantly monitors and adjusts what you ship
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
- Visa Sponsorship
- Four Day Work Week
- Generous Parental Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Relocation Assistance