Security Advocate

The role

This is a hands-on security research and DevRel role. You will test AI models and agents to find data exposures and create technical content like videos, blogs, and demos to show findings to security teams.

What you will do

• Run investigations testing new models, agents and AI tools against enterprise workflows.
• Find data exposures and build working reproductions.
• Create technical videos, blog posts and demos.
• Build, document, and maintain open-source tools, detections, scanners, labs and utilities.
• Give talks at security and engineering conferences.
• Run hands-on workshops.
• Host or join podcasts, livestreams and practitioner communities.
• Bring feedback from security teams back to product and marketing.
• Create realistic, resettable demo environments for sales engineers.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in security engineering, detection engineering, incident response, insider risk/DLP, security research or sales engineering.
• An established public voice in security through talks, a podcast, research write-ups, open-source projects or a following.
• Ability to code, work with APIs and debug across unfamiliar systems.
• Understanding of how enterprise data moves across SaaS, endpoints and AI tools.
• Understanding of how security controls like DLP, CASB, SIEM and EDR work.
• Ability to explain a technical finding clearly and defend it under questioning.
• Enjoyment of talking with security practitioners and engineers on camera and in person.
• Ability to follow through on the software and content you publish.

Nice to have

• experience as a security advocate, evangelist or DevRel at a security vendor
• hands-on work with LLMs, AI agents or MCP
• SOC or data security operations experience

About the company

Nightfall is an AI-native, unified data loss prevention and insider risk management platform. It protects sensitive data across SaaS apps, GenAI tools, email, and endpoint devices.