Head of Security

F2

• $250K — $400K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Hands-on security engineering depth with 8+ years of experience in security and a strong software engineering background.
  • Expertise in cloud and application security, specifically AWS-hosted services.
  • Fluency in AI/LLM security, including prompt injection and sandboxing.
  • Experience with SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001 as a primary contributor from the engineering perspective.
  • Proven experience engaging with enterprise security teams and managing security-related questionnaires.
  • Comfortable operating independently as the sole security person in the company.
  • A hands-on mindset with a preference for building rather than just documenting.

Responsibilities

  • Own the security of a multi-tenant AI platform and enhance tenant isolation.
  • Threat-model LLM-driven workflows and design robust security controls.
  • Manage cloud and infrastructure security, including IAM and secrets management.
  • Execute technical controls for the SOC 2 program, integrating them into the development pipeline.
  • Establish detection and incident response systems, including alerting and tabletop exercises.
  • Collaborate with customer security teams on penetration tests and security documentation.
  • Raise security standards within the engineering team and provide mentorship.

Benefits

  • Security is a core product requirement, directly influencing revenue.
  • Opportunity to shape the security function from the ground up with strong founder support.
  • Work in a small, experienced team where your contributions quickly impact production.
Full Job Description
The Role:

We are hiring our first security engineer. Our customers are private credit funds, commercial banks, and private equity firms, and they trust us with credit agreements, financial models, and deal materials that never leave their four walls otherwise. Security is not a compliance checkbox for us; it is the product.

You will own security at F2 end to end: the multi-tenant platform, the cloud infrastructure, the AI and agent execution paths, our SOC 2 program, and the way the engineering team builds. This is a hands-on, engineer-first role. You will also be the person our customers' security teams talk to.

You will report to the co-founder and CEO and operate with a high degree of independence. There is no security team to inherit; you set the bar and build the function.

WHAT YOU'LL DO
  • Own the security of a multi-tenant AI platform. Lead the efforts in hardening tenant isolation across Postgres, object storage, vector search namespaces, and per-tenant sandboxes.
  • Secure the AI and agent surface. Threat-model LLM-driven workflows. Design controls that hold up when the agent is the one making requests.
  • Own cloud and infrastructure security. IAM and least privilege across vendors; network boundaries; secrets management; logging and detection; backup and recovery.
  • Run the SOC 2 program's technical controls as an engineer. Build the controls into the pipeline and the platform so compliance is a byproduct of how we work.
  • Build detection and incident response. Set up alerting on the signals that matter, run tabletop exercises, and lead real incidents end to end, including customer communication and postmortems.
  • Answer to customer security teams. Co-own questionnaires with our CRO, penetration test coordination and remediation, architecture reviews, and security addenda for enterprise deals with banks and funds.
  • Raise the bar for the engineering team. Set secure-by-default patterns, write the guidance engineers and coding agents actually follow, and teach through review. Hire and lead the security team when the business needs it.
WHAT YOU BRING
  • Hands-on security engineering depth. 8+ years in security with a strong software engineering background. You have shipped production code, found real vulnerabilities in real systems, and fixed them. You are comfortable in Python and TypeScript.
  • Cloud and application security expertise. Practical, recent experience securing AWS-hosted services and modern web applications: identity and access, secrets, network boundaries, CI/CD, dependency and supply-chain risk, and multi-tenant SaaS data isolation.
  • AI/LLM security fluency. Understanding of prompt injection, tool and agent authorization, sandboxing untrusted execution, and the data-handling implications of sending customer content to model providers.
  • Compliance as an engineering problem. You have owned or been a primary contributor to SOC 2 Type II (or ISO 27001) from the engineering side and know the difference between controls that work and controls that produce evidence.
  • Enterprise customer experience. You have sat across enterprise security teams, handled questionnaires and pen test findings, and closed deals by being credible and direct.
  • Independent operator. You are comfortable being the only security person in the building, deciding what matters most, and executing without a mandate handed to you.
  • Bias to build. You would rather write the detection rule, the scanner integration, or the migration than write the policy document describing it.
WHY F2
  • Security is a core product requirement for our customers, not a cost center. Your work is directly tied to revenue.
  • You define the function from scratch, with the founders' backing and access to the whole codebase.
  • Small, senior, high-velocity team where your decisions land in production the same week.


Location: San Francisco

Employment Type: Full time

Location Type: Hybrid

Department: Engineering, Product, Design (EPD)

Compensation: $250K - $400K • Offers Equity

The total rewards package at F2 includes base salary, equity (stock options), and benefits.

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