Security GRC Engineer

San Francisco, CAOnsiteFull TimePosted 1 month ago

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Required skills

GRC
SOC 2
ISO 27001
ISO 42001
AIUC-1
security compliance
AI governance
automation
evidence gathering
continuous control testing

Nice to have

coding agents
curiosity

Role summary

Seeking a Security GRC Engineer to design, implement, and scale a governance, risk, and compliance program. This role involves automating compliance workflows, building self-serve tools for go-to-market teams, and ensuring products and infrastructure meet high security standards. The position blends technical implementation with strategic program development to build customer trust. Responsibilities include automating evidence gathering, managing audit relationships, conducting compliance reviews, supporting legal and incident response, and maintaining security policies. The ideal candidate is comfortable tracing external claims to product/infrastructure configuration and has strong cross-functional collaboration skills.

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About the Role

Security GRC Engineers design, implement, and scale our governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) program. You'll lead automation of compliance workflows, build self-serve tools to enable GTM teams, and ensure our products and infrastructure meet the highest security standards. This role blends technical implementation with strategic program development, directly shaping how we build trust with customers.

You may be a fit if

You have experience with GRC frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, and AIUC-1.
You're comfortable tracing an external claim back to how the product and infrastructure are actually configured — you use coding agents and curiosity to confirm that what we say is what we do, flag issues that affect the security and AI governance program, and drive them to the right outcome.
You have strong cross-functional collaboration skills, especially with Engineering, Legal, GTM, Trust & Safety, auditors, and regulators.

Sample projects include

Automate evidence gathering and continuous control testing.
Own the relationship with audit firms and customers — you're the person who explains the security and AI governance program and earns their trust in it.
Conduct security compliance reviews for new products, features, and vendors.
Support Legal in contract negotiations with timely, accurate guidance on security and AI governance terms.
Support incident response communications — draft and review customer-facing updates during security incidents.
Build self-serve documentation and tools to answer customer security and AI governance inquiries.
Maintain corporate security policies.

Applying

If there appears to be a fit, we'll reach out to schedule 2–3 short technicals. After that, we'll schedule an onsite at our office, where you'll work on a small project, discuss ideas, and meet the team.

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