About the Role
As a senior individual contributor serving as a founding security lead, you will own and mature application security at a growing AI-focused fintech company. You will work closely with engineering to secure AI agent workflows and help build security practices that support a regulated banking environment.
What You'll Do
Build and improve application security tooling, processes, and secure software development practices that fit into engineers' day-to-day work.
Partner with engineering to design secure AI agent workflows, protect data privacy, and address AI-specific vulnerabilities.
Automate detection and vulnerability management to reduce manual security work.
Lead incident response and turn incidents into lasting security improvements.
Support compliance and customer trust efforts, including SOC 2, ISO 27001, and bank security requirements.
What We're Looking For
Four to eight years of application security experience, including hands-on product security work in a fast-growing environment.
A technical bachelor's degree and strong software security fundamentals.
Recent experience with secure code review, threat modeling, penetration testing, or security tooling used by engineering teams.
An individual contributor who primarily performs hands-on security work, rather than a manager or a specialist focused mainly on IT, GRC, network, cloud-only, or security operations.
Experience in fintech or regulated B2B software is valuable, as is ownership of SOC 2 or ISO 27001 work.
Familiarity with TypeScript, JavaScript, AWS or GCP, secure SDLC, IAM, cloud security, and AI or LLM security.
Compensation & Benefits
Annual salary range: $190,000 to $250,000. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, California.