# Director, Security Engineering

Hiring organization: [InstaLily](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/instalily)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/0ee53671-d07f-44bf-8530-9f1305d01f62

Listed on InstaLily's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Lead / Staff / Principal
- Location: New York, NY
- Salary: 200000 – 250000 USD per year

## Summary

Lead security for an AI agent platform operating inside enterprise systems at scale, owning compliance programs, cloud hardening, and customer trust while spending 30–50% of your time writing automation and security tooling. This is a greenfield role reporting to the CEO at a well-funded Series B company where security directly influences deal closure and product design.

_Our summary, not InstaLily's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), HIPAA, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, Okta, Python, Terraform, Threat Modeling, TypeScript

## Required

- 8+ years in security engineering with hands-on program ownership at a SaaS company
- Strong GCP and AWS IAM, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code skills
- Production-quality Python or TypeScript with ability to ship automation and security tooling
- End-to-end SOC 2 Type II program ownership including audits and controls
- Experience leading customer security reviews and CISO-level conversations
- Real hands-on experience building systems with LLMs or agents
- In-person availability 5 days per week in New York or San Francisco office

## Nice to have

- Built a security function from scratch at Series B/C SaaS and taken it through SOC 2 Type II audit
- Secured LLM or agent products in production
- Led real incident response
- Multi-tenant isolation experience
- Pen-test program management
- Okta or IdP rollout leadership
- CNAPP tooling experience (Wiz, Aikido)
- GDPR, ISO 27001, HITRUST, NIST CSF, or EU AI Act familiarity
- Certifications: CISSP, CCSP, GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer, AWS Security Specialty, OSCP
- Public security work: talks, writing, open-source tooling

Apply on InstaLily's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/instalilyai/jobs/4432204009