Founding Security Engineer — Own End-to-End Platform Security

Crane Venture Partners; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

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Job summary

Hacktron in San Francisco combines security software with a fast growing team. As a founding engineer, you will own significant components across frontend (Nuxt/Vue), backend (NestJS), and CLI (Go), shaping product direction in a small, high-ownership environment.

You’ll work in a hybrid setup with global teammates and offsites, using Google Cloud, Temporal, LangGraph and tree-sitter to evolve our security review pipeline while shipping reliable, scalable systems.

Qualifications

• Experience building and scaling distributed systems.
• Strong coding in Typescript, Python or Go.
• Familiar with CI/CD, Kubernetes, Docker and relational databases.
• Understanding infrastructure trade-offs with systems-thinking.

Responsibilities

• Architect and ship end-to-end features across frontend, backend and CLI.
• Own critical systems with high autonomy and set roadmap priorities.
• Investigate, troubleshoot, and resolve production issues.
• Document knowledge and share with the team.

Skills

Distributed systems

Typescript / Python / Go

CI / CD / Kubernetes / Docker

Databases / Messaging queues

Google Cloud Platform

Tools

Nuxt/Vue

NestJS

Temporal

LangGraph

tree-sitter

Go

Python

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Hacktron in San Francisco combines security software with a fast growing team. As a founding engineer, you will own significant components across frontend (Nuxt/Vue), backend (NestJS), and CLI (Go), shaping product direction in a small, high-ownership environment.

You’ll work in a hybrid setup with global teammates and offsites, using Google Cloud, Temporal, LangGraph and tree-sitter to evolve our security review pipeline while shipping reliable, scalable systems.