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title: "Security Engineer"
company: "Clera"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/clera"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/clera-security-engineer-6f1a0933-4b8e-40a0-96ed-5d3071b35b2e"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/e80aeb4e-018f-48bd-abf4-7bfd63e44ab5"
workplace: onsite
location: "San Francisco"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: mid
role: devops-infrastructure
region: united-states
date_posted: 2026-09-23T17:19:29.148Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-23T17:42:29.045Z
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# Security Engineer

**Clera** · San Francisco

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/e80aeb4e-018f-48bd-abf4-7bfd63e44ab5

## About Clera

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## About the role

##### About the Role

This is a founding security role at an early-stage AI/ML infrastructure company, giving you full ownership to build the security program from the ground up. You will work across product, cloud infrastructure, compliance, and incident response to protect a platform used by frontier AI labs and large enterprises. The role is critical to maintaining customer trust and safeguarding sensitive data assets at scale.

##### What You'll Do

- Lead detection and incident response end-to-end, from signal and alert through investigation, postmortem, and durable engineering improvements.

- Own the security roadmap spanning product security, cloud infrastructure, corporate security, incident response, and compliance.

- Secure APIs, platforms, and data systems through threat modeling, design and code reviews, authentication and authorization controls, and secrets management.

- Build and operate monitoring, detection, and incident-response capabilities, and turn emerging threats into lasting improvements.

- Own SOC 2 compliance and customer trust, including control design, security questionnaires, policy management, vendor reviews, and audits.

- Partner with legal, commercial, engineering, and operations to translate data-license requirements into enforceable controls for access, provenance, retention, deletion, and auditability.

##### What We're Looking For

- 5+ years of hands-on security engineering experience across infrastructure, detection and response, and identity domains.

- Proven ability to lead security incidents end-to-end, from containment through root-cause analysis and follow-up engineering work.

- Experience implementing or operating SOC 2 or a comparable security framework and translating requirements into technical controls.

- Hands-on offensive security experience, including bug bounty, penetration testing, or red-team work, not only defensive or blue-team work.

- Experience setting up and operating SIEM and/or XDR tooling for proactive detection.

- Experience with abuse and fraud detection, and comfort running solo incident response.

- Experience with attack surface management, including continuous monitoring of domains and third-party hosting infrastructure.

- Experience securing AI/ML infrastructure, agent execution environments, or data platforms handling untrusted or sensitive data.

- Experience designing data protection controls covering access, retention, deletion, isolation, and auditability.

- Strong communication skills when working with engineers, legal, auditors, and customers.

- High agency, sound judgment, and the ability to prioritize risks and make pragmatic decisions under uncertainty.

- Relevant certifications such as OSCP, AWS Security Specialist, OSWE, CKS, or GIAC are a plus, as is systems programming or low-level engineering background.

- Prior experience as an early or sole security hire building a program from scratch at a fast-growing startup is a strong advantage.

##### Compensation & Benefits

Very competitive compensation package. Benefits include 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision for US employees, 401k, commuter benefits, and unlimited access to leading AI productivity tools. Visa sponsorship and relocation support are available for strong candidates.

##### Location

On-site in San Francisco, CA or Singapore. Visa sponsorship and relocation support are provided.

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