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Security Engineer in USA

  • San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

  • Lead detection and incident response from initial signal through alerting, containment, investigation, postmortem, and follow-up engineering work.
  • Own the security roadmap across product security, cloud and infrastructure security, corporate security, incident response, and compliance.
  • Secure HUD’s APIs, platform, and data systems through threat modeling, design and code reviews, authentication and authorization controls, and secrets management.
  • Build monitoring, detection, and incident-response capabilities and convert incidents and emerging threats into durable security improvements.
  • Own SOC 2 and customer trust, including control design, security questionnaires, policy management, vendor reviews, and audits.
  • Partner with legal, commercial, engineering, and operations to enforce requirements for data access, provenance, permitted use, retention, deletion, isolation, and auditability.

Requirements

  • Strong security engineering fundamentals and hands-on experience across areas such as infrastructure security, detection and response, and identity.
  • Experience leading security incidents end-to-end, from detection and containment through root-cause analysis and follow-up engineering.
  • Experience implementing or operating SOC 2 or a comparable security framework and translating requirements into technical and operational controls.
  • Ability to identify and prioritize material risks, make pragmatic decisions under uncertainty, and drive implementation personally.
  • Strong communication skills for working with founders, engineers, operations, legal teams, auditors, customers, and external partners.
  • Preferred experience includes being an early security hire, building a security program from scratch, securing AI/ML infrastructure or systems that run untrusted code, protecting licensed or customer-provided data, finding CVEs, creating security tooling on GitHub, participating in bug bounty programs, giving conference talks, or writing about security incidents.
  • Preferred certifications include OSCP, AWS Security Specialist, OSWE, CKS, or GIAC certifications.
  • The company prioritizes technical aptitude and learning potential over a specific number of years of experience.

Benefits

  • Full-time, on-site employment in the San Francisco Bay Area or Singapore.
  • Support for relocation and visas for strong full-time candidates to the US or Singapore.
  • Very competitive compensation.
  • 100% company-covered medical, dental, and vision insurance through Blue Shield of CA for US employees.
  • Lunch and dinner when working in the office.
  • Company-wide holiday break from Christmas Eve through New Year’s Day, in addition to PTO and paid holidays.
  • Equinox membership, 401k, and commuter benefits for US employees.
  • Unlimited practical access to tokens for ChatGPT, Claude Code, and Cursor.
  • Hiring process includes two technical interviews and a 2–3 day work trial; applications are rolling.

Salary: Competitive

HUD

The platform to build RL environments. We help improve frontier models across diverse capabilities and help build post-training datasets for doing RFT.

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