Klaviyo
Lead Security Compliance Engineer
Denver, CO
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About the role
- If you're a close but not exact match with the description, we hope you'll still consider applying.
- Want to learn more about life at Klaviyo?
- We push each other to grow beyond our comfort zone, learn new things, and work hard to ensure each day is better than the last.
Responsibilities
- Own internal and external audits and examinations end to end from scoping and readiness through fieldwork and evidence delivery; act as our primary point of contact for auditors and assessors, and develop action plans to correct findings and exceptions
- Identify gaps against frameworks we do not yet meet, define the strategy to close them, and drive the implementation when Klaviyo takes on a new certification or regulation
- Own security policies and standards end to end - author and maintain the policy, standard, and procedure hierarchy, decompose standards into testable requirements mapped to frameworks, and run the review, ratification, and exception management
- Determine control design and implementation details for net-new controls, provide technical guidance to partner teams on control design best practices, and diagnose deficiencies by reviewing system configurations, technical documentation, security tool data, and occasionally application code
- Deep experience designing, assessing, and continuously monitoring modern security and privacy controls, including determining control design for net-new controls and diagnosing deficiencies from system configurations, technical documentation, security tool data, and application code
- Knowledge of various enterprise SaaS applications, cloud infrastructure such as AWS and Kubernetes, modern software engineering practices/tools, databases, operating systems, secure network design, and other technology relevant to cybersecurity
- Building with agentic AI tooling (MCP, agent skills, evals and guardrails) and/or governing AI controls against ISO 42001 or NIST AI RMF
Requirements
- Experience with GRC engineering and security automation in general, especially applying AI and automation to eliminate toil
- Experience with SQL, building tools with REST APIs, and Python
- We'd love to hear from you if you have most of the following:
Compensation
- Our salary range reflects the cost of labor across various U.S. geographic markets.
Benefits
- Define control health metrics and build the pipelines behind them from the systems we already run, so control health is a live signal rather than a quarterly assertion
Company info
- At Klaviyo, we value the unique backgrounds, experiences and perspectives each Klaviyo (we call ourselves Klaviyos) brings to our workplace each and every day.
- We are a team of ambitious, customer-obsessed peers who are insatiably curious and meticulous in our craft.
- Automate and streamline our Security Trust & Compliance workflows - control testing, continuous control monitoring, evidence collection, identity governance, and security Q&As for employees and customers - with a penchant for creating excellent self-service experiences, and define new approaches, systems, and tools for the team where none exist yet
Visa & Work Authorization
- We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, citizenship, national origin, color, religion or religious creed, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability
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