Liberate

Lead Security Engineer

Boston / San Francisco · Vp

Sponsorship not specified$180k-$240kDetected 89 days ago

Agentic AICybersecurityCompliancePRDsCustomer SuccessLeadershipCommunication

About the role

We started with voice - the hardest and most valuable channel in insurance - and are now expanding into full workflow automation across sales, servicing, and claims.
We've raised $72M to date, including a $50M Series B in October 2025, backed by top-tier venture firms.

Own product security end to end, including threat modeling, secure design reviews, and high risk architecture decisions.
Drive multi tenant and data boundary safety, including secrets handling, key management patterns, and blast radius reduction.
Own SOC 2 and related compliance programs end to end, including control design, implementation, and ongoing effectiveness.
Partner with Engineering, Product, and Ops to embed compliance controls into systems, CI pipelines, and defaults.
Lead audits and external reviews with a strong internal posture, clear ownership, and minimal disruption to engineering teams.
Lead product security incident readiness, including playbooks, tabletop exercises, escalation paths, postmortems, and durable fixes.
Own communication and coordination during security incidents, ensuring calm execution and clear accountability.
Experience building and owning security and compliance programs in high growth environments, including shift left security, developer enablement, and security architecture decisions.

8+ years in security engineering, product security, or platform security roles.
Prior experience operating in an early stage or high growth company where security and compliance systems had to be built, not inherited.

4+ plus years owning security architecture or security programs for a production SaaS product.

Build secure SDLC practices that engineers actually follow, including security requirements, CI checks, security test coverage, and safe defaults.

Liberate builds AI agents to automate manual tasks for the $2.7T insurance industry. We started with voice - the hardest and most valuable channel in insurance - and are now expanding into full workflow automation across sales, servicing, and claims. Our long-term vision is to build reasoning agents capable of handling the entire spectrum of insurance carrier and broker operations. We've raised $72M to date, including a $50M Series B in October 2025, backed by top-tier venture firms.
Reporting: VP Engineering, dotted line partnership with CPO, and Customer Success leadership
Make Liberate's product measurably safer and compliant as we scale agentic workflows. Build security and compliance guardrails, engineering practices, and technical controls so we can ship fast without turning normal mistakes into P0 incidents or compliance failures.
Liberate builds AI agents to automate manual tasks for the $2.7T insurance industry.
Our long-term vision is to build reasoning agents capable of handling the entire spectrum of insurance carrier and broker operations.
Make Liberate's product measurably safer and compliant as we scale agentic workflows.
Build security and compliance guardrails, engineering practices, and technical controls so we can ship fast without turning normal mistakes into P0 incidents or compliance failures.
Product security and architecture

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