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You'll own security across our product, cloud infrastructure, and internal systems, writing code, shipping controls, and working directly with engineers to identify and fix vulnerabilities.\nYou'll also own customer trust: explaining our architecture and controls to enterprise security teams, leading security reviews, and turning customer requirements into practical improvements. You'll work directly with company leadership and partner with Engineering, Product, AI Research, Sales, and Legal to set priorities and build the security function as Valkai grows.\nWHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR\nSecurity engineers who ship: You have built and operated production software or security tooling. You can investigate an issue, write the fix, and own it through deployment.\n\nProduct and cloud security depth: You understand application vulnerabilities, cloud architecture, identity and access, secrets management, data flows, and tenant isolation.\n\nCustomer credibility: You can explain technical security decisions clearly to enterprise customers, work through diligence questions, and distinguish implemented controls from future commitments.\n\nPractical judgment: You prioritize risks based on impact and exploitability, make clear tradeoffs, and help engineers build securely while keeping product development moving.\n\nClear collaboration: You work well across technical and business teams, document decisions, and follow through on remediation.\n\nWHAT YOU'LL DO\nGuide Valkai's security roadmap. Assess our product, infrastructure, and internal systems, prioritize the highest-impact risks, and own remediation.\n\nBuild and strengthen authentication, authorization, tenant isolation, secrets management, encryption, and data-handling controls. Contribute production code and infrastructure changes alongside Engineering.\n\nSecure AI agents and their integrations, including tool permissions, execution boundaries, access to customer data, and defenses against prompt injection and data exfiltration. Partner with AI Research and Product to test failure modes and implement safeguards.\n\nEstablish security logging, actionable detections, incident response procedures, and vulnerability management. Investigate issues, coordinate response, and implement fixes that prevent recurrence.\n\nOwn enterprise security reviews, technical diligence calls, questionnaires, and customer audit support. Partner with Sales and Legal to make accurate security commitments and resolve deployment blockers.\n\nBuild and maintain our Trust Center, architecture overviews, security documentation, and reusable customer responses. Automate evidence collection and review workflows.\n\nDrive security readiness for SOC 2 and ISO 27001, coordinating evidence, remediation, and external auditors or specialists as needed. 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