Security Engineer – Lead

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🕒 March 9

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People Culture Talent

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2023

👥 HR Tech

🤝 B2B

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HR Tech • B2B • Recruitment

People Culture Talent is a consultancy that helps venture capitalists and high-growth startups build strong teams through effective human capital management. They focus on creating tailored people-first talent strategies that empower organizations to scale their operations while aligning team culture with business objectives. By identifying growth opportunities and establishing resilient, diverse teams, People Culture Talent drives long-term success for their clients.

📋 Description

• Own the product security vision, ensuring security and trust are core to every stage of the product lifecycle. • Design and implement platform-wide security features, including Sybil resistance, bot detection, reputation systems, and anti-abuse primitives. • Lead threat modeling and security architecture reviews for new and existing product features. • Collaborate with infrastructure and product engineering to design secure APIs, data flows, and identity systems that scale. • Improve developer velocity by creating secure-by-default frameworks and tooling for internal teams. • Partner with incident response to quickly assess, contain, and remediate security events, and lead deep postmortems to improve defenses. • Stay ahead of the curve by monitoring emerging attack techniques and applying cutting-edge security research to our platform. • Mentor engineers across the company on secure coding practices, architecture trade-offs, and operational security.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering or security engineering, including staff-level scope in securing large-scale, user-facing platforms. • Proven track record designing and implementing systems to detect, mitigate, and prevent adversarial behavior (bots, Sybil attacks, automated abuse). • Strong experience with threat modeling, secure architecture design, and risk assessment. • Hands-on experience building security features into production systems at scale (millions of DAU / billions of requests). • Proficiency in backend development (Node.js, TypeScript, Python, or Go) and willingness to work across the stack when needed. • Strong knowledge of distributed systems security, identity, and authentication mechanisms. • Excellent communication skills, able to build alignment across engineering, product, and leadership teams.

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, vision, and additional support programs. • The opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI with a small, mission-driven team. • A culture that values transparency, trust, and community impact. • Visa sponsorship available.