# Founding Security Engineer

ABOUT KARAT Karat started by building corporate cards and banking accounts for creators, the people you follow on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Twitch who run real businesses but were treated as an edge case by most financial providers. The same products fit a much wider set of businesses, and today we serve creators alongside the agencies, studios and growing companies that run the same way. We've raised $70 million from Signal Fire, Union Square Ventures, Y Combinator, CRV and Coatue, alongside CEOs from YouTube, Twitter and Wealthfront and Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin. Our team comes from Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, earlier startups and the creator world itself, and we're headquartered in Los Angeles. We hold our customers' money and their financial data, and the compliance and security obligations that come with a banking program are ours to own, not someone else's. Securing that well, without slowing down a small team that ships fast, is the job. ABOUT THE ROLE We're hiring our first dedicated security engineer. Today, security at Karat is owned by the engineers and operators who happen to be closest to each system. You'll take that over and turn it into a program: the cloud infr

- **Id**: 3995034
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/karat-financial-founding-security-engineer>
- **Role**: Security
- **Role family**: Security
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Locations**: Los Angeles, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-02T20:33:04Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-02T20:33:04Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 7
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7309
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Cards & Card Issuing, Digital Banks & Neobanks

## Company

- **Id**: 549
- **Name**: Karat Financial
- **Domain**: trykarat.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/karat-financial>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Work at a Startup

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 120000
- **Max**: 170000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 170000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Google Workspace** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **Pulumi** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SOC 2** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **DNS** — Optional: yes
- **LLM** — Optional: yes
- **SIEM** — Optional: yes
- **Zero Trust** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 7

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T00:56:01Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 81
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.852
- **P room**: 0.945
- **Age days**: 7
- **Expected fill days**: 16
- **Reasons**: seen:7, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 170000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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