Senior Security Engineer - Enterprise Security for AI SaaS

Trynectar; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation and early-equ

Health, vision, and dental benefits +

Job summary

Nectar Social in Palo Alto is seeking a Security Engineer to own security across our enterprise SaaS platform, from design of deployed applications to the compliance programs that earn the trust of large brands. As the first security engineer, you'll lead security tooling, threat modeling, and vulnerability management, while guiding SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and CCPA initiatives as we grow.

You'll partner with engineering to secure AI workloads and cloud environments, drive vendor security, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years in security engineering, application security, or related roles at a software company.
• Strong application and cloud security fundamentals with production systems and AI workloads.
• Hands-on experience leading or operating a compliance program end to end (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR/CCPA).
• Solid programming skills to build security tooling and automate processes.

Responsibilities

• Own the security of deployed applications, including threat modeling and vulnerability fixes across services and AI infra.
• Lead compliance initiatives (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA) with controls, policies and evidence.
• Support sales with security questionnaires and enterprise security reviews; vendor assessments expert.
• Build and run vulnerability, secrets, IAM, and security monitoring practices.
• Manage third-party risk and our penetration-testing program.

Skills

Security engineering

Cloud security

Compliance program

Programming skills

Startup environment

Tools

AWS

Pulumi

Postgres

ClickHouse

Temporal

Turbopuffer

Job description

Nectar Social in Palo Alto is seeking a Security Engineer to own security across our enterprise SaaS platform, from design of deployed applications to the compliance programs that earn the trust of large brands. As the first security engineer, you'll lead security tooling, threat modeling, and vulnerability management, while guiding SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and CCPA initiatives as we grow.

You'll partner with engineering to secure AI workloads and cloud environments, drive vendor security, and