Security Engineer

Unwrap; California; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Significant equity

Direct line to leadership

Opportunity to influence multiple biz/

Job summary

Unwrap is seeking a Security Engineer to lead its security and compliance program within the engineering team, scale the security program, and protect the data our customers trust us with.

You will build systems that continuously improve security, drive risk-based roadmaps to leadership, defend positions on product and vendor risk, evolve identity and permissions for AI features, and work with leaders on cloud hardening and SOC 2 readiness.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in security engineering, detection engineering, or incident response.
• Broad technical depth across compute, network, and storage.
• Nice to have: detection-as-code, LLMs in security workflows, securing AI systems, container security, vendor or M&A security reviews.

Responsibilities

• Scale Unwrap’s security program: set roadmap, prioritize by risk, report to leadership.
• Build systems that continuously improve security posture.
• Be the voice of security risk: lead security reviews and defend positions on product, architecture, and vendor risk.
• Evolve identity and permissions for AI features; work on cloud hardening, secure SDLC, and SOC 2 readiness.

Skills

Security engineering

Detection engineering

Incident response

LLMs in security workflows

Container security

Job description

Do you love to obsess over security? Are you one of the most ambitious people you know? If so, you'll be right at home at Unwrap.

We are seeking a Security Engineer to lead Unwrap's security and compliance program. You'll sit within our engineering team, scale our security program, and protect the data our customers trust us with.

Specifically, you will:

• Scale Unwrap’s security program. Set the roadmap, prioritize by real risk, and report on risk directly to leadership.
• Build systems that continuously improve our security systems as the industry and technology evolve.
• Be the voice of security risk. Take and defend clear positions on product, architecture, and vendor risk, and lead fast security reviews.
• Think about the future. Evolve identity and permissions for our AI and agent features, and work with leadership and engineering on cloud hardening, secure SDLC, and SOC 2.

This is an in-person role in beautiful Santa Barbara, CA. Our office is downtown, walking distance to great restaurants, coffee shops, and the beach.

Who We Are

We’re currently a team of 40, based in Santa Barbara, and growing extremely quickly. We are venture-backed, and raised our $12M Series A from world-leading VCs. Our customers include leading companies across many industries, like Stripe, Perplexity, DoorDash, Microsoft, lululemon, WHOOP, Oura, Clay, and many more.

Unwrap.ai is on a mission to fill the world with products people love. We do this by helping companies understand their customers like never before. Specifically, we ingest feedback from thousands of sources (support channels, surveys, social), use state-of-the-art NLP technology to extract actionable insights, and empower teams to take action on these insights to ship better products.

Our founders, two ex-Amazon Alexa Product Managers, were tired of manually sifting through customer reviews, support tickets, and bugs while working on Alexa. They understood the importance of listening to customers and prioritizing their requests effectively, but simply had too much feedback to parse through. So, Unwrap.ai was born to solve this problem.

Our small team is extremely motivated, hard-working, and simply gets stuff done. If this sounds exciting, we can’t wait to read your application.

What You Bring

• 5+ years in security engineering, detection engineering, or incident response, including time as a senior IC or technical lead.
• Broad technical depth across compute, network, and storage, so you can judge real risk across the stack.
• Nice to have: detection-as-code, using LLMs in security workflows, securing AI systems, container security, vendor or M&A security reviews, or threat intel and forensics.
• You are excited about working at a startup pace. The role frequently requires more than the 9-5 commitment, but you’re excited for the impact and autonomy that provides.
• Located in or willing to relocate to Santa Barbara and excited about working in-person 5 days a week.
• Teammates love working with you.

What You Get

• Significant, potentially life-changing equity.
• The chance to build Unwrap's security program from the ground up with a direct line to leadership.
• Learn about and have influence over all parts of the business, including finance, people, fundraising, product, etc.
• Ability to rapidly advance your career alongside company growth.
• Collaborate with experienced teammates, entrepreneurs, and advisors.