Security Engineer — Build & Scale Security (Equity, Onsite)

Unwrap.ai; California; On-site; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Significant equity

Direct line to leadership

Opportunity to shape security program

Growth with company

Job summary

Unwrap.ai in Santa Barbara, CA is seeking a Security Engineer to lead our security program within the engineering team, scale security initiatives, and protect the data our customers trust us with.

The role focuses on risk-based roadmapping, building security systems, and guiding product, architecture, and vendor risk. This in-person position requires 5 days a week in the Santa Barbara office and close collaboration with leadership.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Security engineering

Risk assessment

Incident response

Container security

Leadership

Tools

LLM security workflows

Job description

Unwrap.ai in Santa Barbara, CA is seeking a Security Engineer to lead our security program within the engineering team, scale security initiatives, and protect the data our customers trust us with.

The role focuses on risk-based roadmapping, building security systems, and guiding product, architecture, and vendor risk. This in-person position requires 5 days a week in the Santa Barbara office and close collaboration with leadership.