Outtake
Software Engineer, Security
New York City · Mid
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About the role
- Engineering at Outtake is built on ownership, clarity, and end-to-end impact.
- We hire entrepreneurial engineers who think in systems, not tickets.
Responsibilities
- Own the security posture of our cloud infrastructure: AWS, EKS, Vercel, Supabase.
- Build our detection and response capabilities for capable incident response.
- Design and operate our secrets, credential, and access management architecture across our services.
- Partner with engineering on secure-by-default patterns: IAM, network segmentation, privilege, and access control.
- engineers ship fast, make product decisions, and own outcomes from concept to deployment.
- We trust adults to manage energy, not clock time.
- We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive team.
Requirements
- 3+ years in infrastructure security, security operations, or platform engineering with strong security ownership.
- Experience architecting effective, precise D&R SIEM/SOAR systems.
- Comfort writing and shipping code in your language of choice.
- You will be our second security hire, taking on massive ownership and the ability to shape the function from the ground up, with a direct line to how security scales with the company as we grow.
Nice to have
- background defending or attacking AI/ML systems and agent infrastructure.
- endpoint security operations (EDR/MDR).
- experience as the security person at a small company, with a feel for how the function evolves.
- Collaboration, speed, and clarity matter.
- Outtake is an equal opportunity employer.
- Nice to have: background defending or attacking AI/ML systems and agent infrastructure.
- Nice to have: endpoint security operations (EDR/MDR).
- Nice to have: experience as the security person at a small company, with a feel for how the function evolves.
Compensation
- Culture & Team: Annual company retreats and regular in-person events.
Benefits
- Health: 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision for employees.
- Time Away: Flexible PTO.
- We optimize for grit and velocity, which means every engineer operates with the scope, influence, and equity of a future CTO.
Company info
- Outtake exists to empower and facilitate trust for a digital-first world.
- Today, impersonation, fraud, AI-driven scams, and identity abuse spread faster than any security team can respond to.
- So we built something different:
- an agentic AI platform that proactively detects, monitors, and takes down impersonators, automating protection in hours, not weeks.
- Built by ex-Palantir, ex-CTO/founders, and ex-Notion engineers, Outtake is designed for clarity, autonomy, and velocity.
- Our goal is ambitious:
- become the trust layer of the modern internet.
- And we intend to do it with a lean, dense, exceptionally talented team.
- Outtake is backed by top-tier investors and operators who believe in our mission and our model.
- With strong financial footing and a long runway, we prioritize creating an environment where people can do the best work of their careers.
- Annual company retreats and regular in-person events.
- Office: For those in NY, we are an in-person team (5 days a week, with flexibility as needed) working out of a stunning waterfront office in Brooklyn.
Equal opportunity
- equal opportunity employer.
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