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Security Lead
Location
California + 1 moreAll locations: California, New York
Posted
54 days ago
Salary
Not specified
Bachelor Degree5 yrs expExperience acceptedEnglishAWS
Job Description
• own all security outcomes: infrastructure, compliance, external programs, and internal security
• drive execution and hold an extremely high bar for our security posture
• hands-on role, independently build these programs from scratch
• own SOC2 and data privacy compliance (audits, GDPR, CCPA)
• own infrastructure security (AWS, Vercel, Cloudflare, PlanetScale - secrets, access controls, monitoring)
• own security incident response (detection, triage, remediation, post-mortems)
• own external security programs (bug bounty, pen tests, threat monitoring)
• own internal security (IT vendor, device security, office security, training)
• first line of escalation for all security issues
Job 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
- Series A/B or high-growth startup experience preferred
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours
- Paid time off
- Remote work options
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