Founding Security Infrastructure Engineer

Rockstar

• $130K — $160K *
San Francisco, CA 94112In-Person
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
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Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3-6 years of experience in security, infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering
  • Hands-on experience securing and operating cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS
  • Strong understanding of IAM, networking, and cloud security best practices
  • Proven ability to implement security controls directly
  • Experience handling sensitive customer or consumer data
  • Strong judgment to prioritize impactful security work
  • Ability to operate independently in a fast-paced startup environment

Responsibilities

  • Define and improve the company's security and privacy program
  • Implement security best practices across cloud infrastructure and applications
  • Build secure patterns for internal AI agent use cases
  • Manage identity and access control systems
  • Lead customer security reviews and ensure compliance with SOC 2 Type II
  • Oversee third-party penetration testing and remediation of issues
  • Develop technical controls to protect sensitive data across various communication systems

Benefits

  • Top-of-market medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
  • 401(k) with a competitive employer match
  • Unlimited PTO for work-life balance
  • Snacks, weekly team lunches, and dinner provided by the company
  • Hybrid work schedule: four days in-office with a flexible remote day
Full Job Description
What You'll Do
  • Define and continuously improve the company's security and privacy program
  • Implement security best practices across cloud infrastructure, applications, and internal systems
  • Build secure patterns and controls for internal AI agent use cases
  • Own identity, access, secrets, and privileged access controls
  • Lead customer security reviews and compliance efforts, including SOC 2 Type II
  • Manage third-party penetration testing and drive remediation of findings
  • Build technical controls to protect sensitive customer and consumer data across API, voice, and SMS systems
What the Company Is Looking For
  • 3-6 years of experience in security, infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering
  • Experience working at an early-stage startup, ideally Seed through Series C
  • Hands-on experience securing and operating cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS
  • Strong understanding of IAM, networking, secrets management, encryption, logging, vulnerability management, and cloud security best practices
  • Experience implementing security controls directly, not just defining policies or requirements
  • Experience working with systems that handle sensitive customer or consumer data
  • Strong judgment and ability to prioritize the highest-impact security work without over-engineering
  • Comfortable operating independently in a fast-moving startup environment
Nice to Have
  • Previous experience in fintech, financial services, AI software, or another regulated B2B software environment
  • DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering background
  • Experience securing AI/LLM applications, agent workflows, or systems that process voice, SMS, or communications data
  • Experience partnering closely with product and engineering teams to design secure systems
  • Familiarity with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tooling, Kubernetes, CI/CD security, and cloud-native security tooling
  • Experience helping an early-stage company mature its security program as it moves upmarket
Benefits
  • Top-of-market medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
  • 401(k) with a top-of-market employer match
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Snacks, weekly team lunches, and dinner on the company
  • Hybrid in-office schedule: four days a week together in SF, with a flexible remote day on Wednesdays
* Ladders Estimates

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