aiwyn - Principal Security Engineer
Requirements
• Strong engineering background in software, platform, infrastructure, or security engineering, with hands-on experience building and operating complex systems. • Solid security fundamentals and practical experience improving security in software development, cloud infrastructure, or production environments. • Experience with software delivery security, including CI/CD, vulnerability management, supply chain security, or related areas. • Understanding of SaaS security, including the challenges of protecting customer data, securing applications, and operating cloud-based services. • AI-forward mindset, with an interest in emerging AI security capabilities and an understanding of the opportunities and risks AI introduces. • Technical leadership and ownership, with the ability to drive complex initiatives, collaborate across teams, and balance security with engineering needs. • We don't expect experience in all these areas, but familiarity with some would be helpful: • Software supply chain security, including SLSA, SBOMs, artifact signing, or build provenance. • Security scanning and remediation tooling, including SAST, SCA, and container scanning. • Cloud-native security, particularly AWS and Kubernetes. • Threat modeling, application security, identity, or secrets management. • AI-powered security tooling and securing AI-assisted development workflows. • Building or improving security engineering practices in a growing organization. • WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE • You'll help us build a stronger, more scalable approach to engineering security. • In your first year, you'll identify and prioritize meaningful risks, improve our software supply chain and vulnerability management capabilities, and establish security practices that fit naturally into how our teams build and operate software. • You'll bring the technical expertise, ownership, and judgment to make measurable improvements while helping security become a shared responsibility across engineering.
Responsibilities
• Software Supply Chain Security: Improve security across our CI/CD pipelines, build infrastructure, dependencies, and deployment processes. Help establish secure, reliable software delivery practices. • Vulnerability Management: Own and improve our vulnerability scanning and remediation capabilities, including tooling, automation, prioritization, and integration into engineering workflows. • Product & SaaS Security: Partner with engineering teams to strengthen application, cloud, and infrastructure security. Help address risks around customer data, access controls, APIs, and third-party integrations. • Security Architecture: Lead threat modeling and security reviews for critical systems, helping teams identify risks and make sound architectural decisions. • AI Security: Explore how emerging AI capabilities, including tools and models such as Daybreak and Mythos, can improve security engineering. Help teams understand and address risks introduced by AI-assisted development, agents, and LLM integrations. • Security Strategy: Partner with engineering leadership to identify gaps, prioritize improvements, and establish practical security standards and processes. • Technical Leadership: Own security initiatives from design through implementation, influence technical decisions, and help build security expertise across engineering.
Benefits
• The big-picture value proposition of this role is simple: join us, and you'll be paid competitively to have freedom in solving worthwhile, challenging problems alongside other A-players at a fast-growing SaaS startup led by an experienced and successful team with industry experience • AI-by-Default - you'll have access to best-in-class AI tools and work in an environment that embraces an AI-by-default mindset, where curiosity and experimentation are part of how we operate • Remote-first organization • Stock options • 401(k) matching • Adventure Travel Stipend on each anniversary of your employment with Aiwyn • Relentless by Design • Owners not Renters • Trust at the Core
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