Founding Security Engineer

Founding Security Engineer at Reducto

Reducto helps AI teams ingest real world enterprise data with state of the art accuracy.

Reducto builds vision models to read documents like a human, enabling products, training models, and automating processes at scale.

We’ve grown quickly, with revenue 7x YOY, partnering with companies such as Harvey, Vanta, Scale, FAANG, etc. Raised over $100M from investors like A16z, Benchmark, First Round Capital. As a founding member you will own our security posture and compliance programs.

Qualifications and Experience

3+ years hands‑on security engineering experience, ideally in high‑growth startups or cloud‑native environments.

Experience with SOC2 or similar compliance audit.

Comfortable reading and auditing code (Python strongly preferred), understanding infrastructure architecture, and implementing security controls across the stack—from application layer to cloud infrastructure.

Ability to build and maintain tools (scripts, dashboards) to audit secrets, track metrics.

Practical, risk‑based approach to security, balancing rigor with business velocity.

The Core Work Will Include

Owning and managing SOC2, HIPAA, and other compliance certifications end‑to‑end.

Implementing proactive security monitoring and alerting systems.

Building and maintaining security CI / CD tooling – static analysis, dependency scanning, secrets detection, etc.

Managing our relationship with platforms like Vanta.

Responding to customer security questionnaires and conducting security reviews for enterprise deals.

Establishing and managing our bug bounty program, triaging vulnerabilities, coordinating remediation with engineering.

Working directly with founders and customers to shape our security strategy and build trust with enterprise buyers.

Bonus Points If You

Have prior experience founding a company or building security programs from scratch at early‑stage startups.

Have deep experience with on‑prem deployments and air‑gapped environments for enterprise customers.

Have contributed to security tools, written security content, or spoken at security conferences.

Are ambitious, driven, and care about doing great work with great people.

Keep up with the latest developments in application security, cloud security, AI / ML security.

Benefits at Reducto

Unlimited PTO.

Free lunch daily at the office.

Reimbursed transportation.

Generous health insurance (medical, dental, vision).

Health and wellness budget up to $150 / mo reimbursement.

Parental leave with flexible scheduling.

This is an in‑person role at our office in San Francisco.

Reducto is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable law.

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