Inception

Inception

Member of Technical Staff, Security Engineering

San Mateo, USA · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 60 days ago
PythonGoRustC++Code ReviewAWSCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesCI/CDDevOpsPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningCybersecurityIncident ResponseComplianceProcurementLeadership

About the role

  • You'll be the first/early security leader at a company where security directly affects customer trust, revenue, and product velocity.
  • This is not a narrow GRC, IT, AI safety, or policy-only role, and it is not AI-specific security research.
  • We're looking for traditional enterprise/product security execution from an "inverted T" engineer: broad software engineering ability with a deep spike in security.

Responsibilities

  • Expect to spend 70%+ of your time writing code, building security tools, and automating security best practices.
  • You'll need strong command of CS fundamentals, to design, build, and maintain secure software systems.
  • Design secure systems and guide backend, product, and platform engineers on security architecture and threat modeling for Inception's customer-facing API and enterprise deployments.
  • Lead proactive threat protection for a public API product handling enterprise usage, analogous to companies exposing API surfaces like ChatGPT or Claude.
  • Operate as a staff-level "all-in-one specialist" across VPC design, network isolation, GDPR, incident response, security monitoring, and operational visibility for production systems.
  • Build and maintain secure infrastructure, automation, and internal tools across Inception's product, platform, and enterprise systems - improving developer velocity while raising the security baseline.

Requirements

  • You Might Be a Fit If You have 6+ years of security engineering experience or equivalent staff-level depth, and have operated as a TL/TLM or staff+ engineer who still ships.
  • You have hands-on experience with product/API security for customer-facing APIs.
  • You have driven or owned SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, or comparable compliance and certification programs.

Nice to have

  • Experience as an early or founding security engineer at a startup or fast-growing engineering organization, helping scale towards 100+ org size.
  • Background in backend engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure, or DevOps before specializing in security.
  • Familiarity with monitoring, observability, vulnerability management, and incident response tooling.

Benefits

  • VPC, GDPR, incident response, and 24/7 security coverage.

Company info

  • You've built security for enterprise-facing products, APIs, infrastructure, or compliance-heavy environments, and have worked with customers who have procurement, compliance, or customer-trust requirements.
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