Profound
Security Engineer
New York, New York · Mid
Sponsorship not specified$200k-$250kDetected 141 days ago
PythonBashPostgreSQLAWSTerraformCI/CDOAuthCybersecurityPenetration TestingNetwork SecuritySIEMIncident ResponseComplianceFigmaValuationDNSFirewallLeadershipCommunicationCISSP
About the role
- Profound is the marketing platform for the AI era. As people increasingly turn to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini to decide what to buy, we give brands the intelligence to see how AI represents them and the Agents to act on it. Today, ~13% of the Fortune 500, plus companies like Ramp, Figma, Chime, Calendly, and DocuSign, use Profound to turn AI Search from
- a black box into a measurable growth channel.
Responsibilities
- Build and run a vulnerability management program spanning infrastructure, applications, and dependencies
- Partner with Infrastructure to implement detection and monitoring capabilities using log aggregation and SIEM tooling
- Conduct risk assessments, maintain a risk register, and drive prioritization decisions
- Build security policies and procedures that reflect how we actually operate
- Lead post-incident reviews and drive systemic improvements
- Hands-on experience building or maintaining a SOC 2 compliance program
- Systems thinker who reasons about root causes, blast radius, and scalable control design
- Motivated by building the security foundation for a category-defining AI company
Requirements
- 5+ years in security engineering, with experience in high-growth SaaS or infrastructure-heavy environments
- Strong knowledge of AWS security services and cloud security architecture (IAM, VPC, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub)
- Experience integrating vulnerability management and security scanning (SAST, DAST, SCA, container scanning) into CI/CD workflows
- Familiarity with network security fundamentals (firewalls, DNS, VPNs, segmentation, traffic analysis)
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code security (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Familiarity with data infrastructure security for systems like ClickHouse or PostgreSQL
- Experience with data processing compliance in analytics-heavy environments
Nice to have
- Profound is the marketing platform for the AI era.
- As people increasingly turn to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini to decide what to buy, we give brands the intelligence to see how AI represents them and the Agents to act on it.
- Today, ~13% of the Fortune 500, plus companies like Ramp, Figma, Chime, Calendly, and DocuSign, use Profound to turn AI Search from a black box into a measurable growth channel.
- As enterprises integrate AI into critical workflows, they need to trust that the platforms they rely on are secure, compliant, and resilient.
- That's where you come in.
- You'll be the first dedicated security hire, which means you'll shape how we approach access control, vulnerability management, compliance, and incident response from the ground up.
Compensation
- For this role, the expected base salary range is $200,000 to $250,000 (NYC).
- Profound's total compensation package includes base salary, equity, and a full range of benefits and perks.
- Final compensation depends on skills, experience, qualifications, and location, and will be determined during the interview process.
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