Member of Technical Staff, Founding Security Engineer

The role

A Founding Security Engineer will build the security function at Pace. You will work across application and infrastructure security, enterprise security and GRC, incident response, and designing secure AI and agentic systems.

What you will do

• Build security into the product by partnering with engineers on architecture, threat modeling, and secure development.
• Make agentic systems safe by reasoning about security boundaries of AI agents.
• Own application security by identifying vulnerabilities and improving testing processes.
• Scale the security program including systems, controls, policies, and monitoring.
• Help own GRC and enterprise security by working with customers and auditors on compliance.
• Raise the security bar across the company.

Required qualifications

• Significant experience as a security engineer, software engineer focused on security, or in another deeply technical security role.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals.
• Depth in at least one security discipline such as application security, cloud/infrastructure security, product security, identity, or detection and response.
• Experience securing modern cloud applications and understanding threats across the application, infrastructure, data, and identity layers.
• Strong instincts around threat modeling and designing systems that are secure by construction.
• Comfort operating in ambiguous environments where the security program is still being built.
• The ability to distinguish between theoretical risk and material risk.
• Strong communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI/LLM security
• SOC 2 or similar frameworks
• Regulated industries
• Enterprise security reviews
• Building a security program from an early stage

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Meaningful early-stage equity
• Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Unlimited PTO

About the company

Pace is the AI operations platform for insurance. The team is less than 40 people based in-person across New York and London.