Staff Security Engineer — AI-First & Cloud Security

eightsleep.com; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

Pod for every employee

Health, vision and dental insurance

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Job summary

Eight Sleep seeks an experienced Security Engineer to scale our AI-first security program. You will own vulnerability management end-to-end, drive software supply chain security, and partner with firmware and hardware teams for the Pod.

You’ll also define IT and identity strategy, enable safe AI adoption, and mentor engineers while delivering security design reviews and incident response support.

Qualifications

• AI-first mindset and tools to scale beyond themselves
• 10+ years across security and/or IT engineering, including time leading major initiatives
• Experience operating a SIEM (Datadog Cloud SIEM, Panther, Splunk, Elastic, or similar)
• Corporate IT fluency: Google Workspace admin, MDM, identity lifecycle
• Scripting ability (Python or similar)
• Clear security writing and documentation: triage notes, runbooks, and audit evidence that engineers, auditors, and executives can act on

Responsibilities

• Own Vulnerability management end-to-end across cloud, containers, dependencies, fleet, and devices.
• Prioritize by exploitability and business impact; define remediation SLAs and automation.
• Own software supply chain security: SBOMs, container hygiene, CI/CD guardrails.
• Partner with firmware and hardware teams on vulnerability handling for the Pod.
• Run penetration testing and manage bug bounty programs.
• Report vulnerability posture with metrics suitable for executives and auditors.
• Set technical strategy for corporate IT and identity; ensure audit readiness.
• Define safe and ethical AI adoption; build governance and tooling.
• Assist in incident response and conduct security design reviews.
• Mentor engineers and set security standards, playbooks, patterns.

Skills

AI-first mindset

Security leadership

SIEM operations

Scripting (Python)

Security writing

Incident response

Tools

Datadog Cloud SIEM

Panther

Splunk

Elastic

Job description

Eight Sleep seeks an experienced Security Engineer to scale our AI-first security program. You will own vulnerability management end-to-end, drive software supply chain security, and partner with firmware and hardware teams for the Pod.

You’ll also define IT and identity strategy, enable safe AI adoption, and mentor engineers while delivering security design reviews and incident response support.