The role, as published
About the company
Our client is a fast-growing software company.
The role
Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Act as the founding member of a platform function spanning infrastructure, DevOps and security. Partner closely with technical leadership to shape strategy, modernize older systems and create internal tooling, with a path toward managing a team as the engineering group expands.
What you'll do
- Establish the platform function from scratch, defining its processes, policies and tooling.
- Move older infrastructure onto modern cloud systems and reinforce the cloud architecture in the early months.
- Run and streamline the company's security and compliance program, including audit readiness, AI usage policies and incident handling.
- Improve release automation, internal developer tooling and deployment processes so engineers can ship faster.
- Coach leadership on security practices and encourage a security-minded culture across engineering.
What we're looking for
- Around 6 or more years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps or security engineering.
- Background building security infrastructure at a B2B SaaS company in a regulated industry, either at a startup or a fast-moving, well-regarded technology company.
- Deep hands-on AWS experience.
- Experience designing CI/CD pipelines and working with monitoring and observability tools.
- Application security expertise, including authentication, data protection and vulnerability management.
- Comfort with ambiguity and a hands-on, high-ownership working style.
Bonus points
- Experience standing up security infrastructure from zero to one.
- Experience running SOC 2 compliance processes in production.
Benefits
- Health, dental and vision coverage
Location and work model
- New York, United States
- On-site, 4 days per week in office
- Full-time
Compensation, as the posting describes it
- Equity
- Retirement plan
- Flexible time off