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We replace the legacy systems federal agencies run on with modern software, built with craft. The ticketing platform a resident uses to visit a presidential library. The marketplace DoW uses for counter-drone procurement to protect lives and critical infrastructure. The system a Veteran uses to access benefits. We build systems of record, of national consequence. Our AI-native modules and harness allow us to do so in weeks and months, not years.\nThis year, our revenue has grown 35x. Next year, our software will serve over 100 million Americans across dozens of federal agencies.\nFounded in 2022 and based in New York City and DC, Kaizen has raised $35 million from NEA, a16z, Accel, 776, and Carpenter Capital.\nThe Role\nKaizen's platform reaches 40M residents across 50+ agencies in 17 states. We've already signed multiple federal customers with many more in the pipeline, and the work of making Kaizen federal-ready is currently spread across a handful of engineers. That doesn't scale. We're hiring our first dedicated security engineer to sit on the platform team and own this end to end: architect the controls, write the SSPs, and partner with engineering to embed compliance into how we ship rather than bolt it on after.\nLocation\nThis is a hybrid role based out of our New York or DC. Candidates must reside or be able to commute to New York City or DC to work out of our office at least four times a week (Monday - Thursday).\nWhat You'll Do\nArchitect and operationalize security across infrastructure, platform, CI/CD, and application layers, with a focus on AWS (including GovCloud) and Terraform\n\nLead readiness across federal compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, CMMC, and DoD Impact Levels), translating NIST 800-53 and related controls into real engineering implementations, and owning the SSPs, POA&Ms, and technical policy documentation\n\nBuild continuous compliance and audit-readiness workflows that make accreditation a byproduct of how we ship, not a separate workstream\n\nBe smart about AI and tooling. Use automated AI-driven security scanning, modern hardened-image platforms like Chainguard, and other leverage points to multiply the impact of a small security team\n\nEstablish secure software supply chain practices: SBOMs, image signing, workload identity, and hardened deployment pipelines\n\nOwn the technical relationship with assessors, auditors, and federal security stakeholders. You are the credible technical voice in those rooms\n\nDrive a secure-by-default engineering culture so residents and public servants can trust the systems we put in front of them\n\nWhat You'll Bring\n5+ years of hands-on experience building and securing cloud-native platforms in AWS and Terraform. You can architect controls and also implement them yourself\n\nDirect experience with federal authorization work in FedRAMP, CMMC, DoD IL, or comparable regulated environments. You don't need to have shepherded a full authorization across the finish line, but you've done enough of the real work to know what it takes\n\nDeep familiarity with NIST 800-53 and the ability to translate controls into pragmatic engineering work rather than checkbox compliance\n\nStrong working knowledge of modern supply chain security: SBOMs, image signing, workload identity, secure CI/CD\n\nTrack record operating effectively in early-stage or fast-moving environments where you set the bar rather than inherit it\n\nStrong Candidates May Also...\nHave supported federal SaaS, defense tech, or regulated infrastructure companies through accreditation\n\nHave led a company through its first federal authorization rather than maintaining an existing one\n\nHave hands-on experience with Chainguard, AI-powered security tooling, or similar leverage-multiplying platforms\n\nHave worked with platforms like Second Front or similar federal compliance accelerators\n\nDon't Apply If...\nYou want to own policy and hand the implementation to someone else. This role lives in the code and the infrastructure\n\nYou think compliance is paperwork. At Kaizen it's a load-bearing engineering discipline\n\nYou think AI tools are a crutch rather than a force multiplier\n\nYou need a mature security program already in place to be effective\n\nWhat Kaizen Offers\nHealth & Insurance\n100% coverage across the board: medical through Oxford/United (Gold and Platinum PPO plans), dental through Guardian PPO, and vision through Beam - all fully covered for employees, with 100% coverage for dependents.\n\n$100,000 in fully paid life insurance. FSA and Dependent Care FSA.\n\nOne Medical membership, on us - same-day primary care, 24/7 virtual visits, and offices all over the city.\n\nFertility and family-building support through Carrot.\n\n401(k) through Guideline, with a 2% company match.\n\nFamily & Time Off\n16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for birthing parents. 10 weeks fully paid for non-birthing parents.\n\nUnlimited PTO, with a two-week minimum (we mean it when we say take time off!)\n\nClosed for all federal holidays.\n\nCompany-wide winter break the week of Christmas.\n\nCompany offsites throughout the year.\n\nOffice & Remote Setup\nUp to $750 one-time home office or desk setup stipend for NYC-based employees. $500 for remote employees.\n\n$50/month commuter benefit (company contribution).\n\nExpensed lunch while in the office.\n\nDinner and Uber rides home will be expensed if you choose to work in the office past 7pm.\n\nCompany-provided laptop of your choice.\n\nWellness\nNYC employees: Fully covered gym membership at Grindhouse - right across the street from our office at 47 W 17th St (and in Williamsburg). 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