Founding Security Engineer

Responsibilities: Own security from the ground up, building and deploying tooling across application security, cloud infrastructure, and operational security decisions. Identify and remediate vulnerabilities across production systems, development pipelines, and deployment infrastructure. Lead incident response end-to-end, including investigation, containment, remediation, and post-incident reviews. Partner directly with engineering on threat modeling, secure design reviews, code security, and infrastructure decisions. Build scalable security practices, automation, and detection capabilities while operating autonomously in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications: 5–10+ years of hands-on experience in product security, application security, or security engineering. Experience building security programs in a startup or growth-stage environment with limited existing security infrastructure. Strong coding skills and a track record of building security tools, automation, and detection systems. Deep experience with incident response, infrastructure security, and securing system integrations. Solid application security fundamentals, including threat modeling, secure code review, vulnerability management, and software supply-chain security.