--- title: "Security Engineer" company: "Clera" company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/clera" url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/clera-security-engineer-db409e57-1980-4a79-9ec0-de3910b9f1ff" apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/5d4e491d-11af-4067-8f7c-7f3577492cc1" workplace: onsite location: "San Francisco" employment_type: full-time seniority: mid role: devops-infrastructure region: united-states skills: ["aws", "linux"] date_posted: 2026-09-16T17:14:15.765Z first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-16T17:35:43.364Z --- # Security Engineer **Clera** ยท San Francisco Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clera/5d4e491d-11af-4067-8f7c-7f3577492cc1 ## About Clera Stop applying to startups. Start getting introduced. Clera connects you directly with hiring managers at the companies you want to work for. ## About the role ##### About the Role This is a founding security engineering role at an early-stage AI/ML infrastructure company, where you will own and 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 enterprise customers. The role is central to maintaining customer trust and ensuring the integrity of sensitive data assets at scale. ##### What You'll Do - Lead detection and incident response end-to-end, from initial signal and alert through investigation, postmortem, and durable engineering improvements. - Own the security roadmap spanning product security, cloud and infrastructure security, 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 engineering 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, translating requirements into technical and operational controls. - Hands-on offensive security experience such as 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, attack surface management, and solo incident response. - Experience securing AI/ML infrastructure, agent execution environments, data platforms, or systems handling untrusted or sensitive data. - Experience designing and implementing data protection controls including access, retention, deletion, isolation, and auditability. - Experience working with legal, auditors, and customers on security questionnaires, policy management, and audit processes. - Prior experience as an early or solo security hire, building a program or function from scratch at a fast-growing company. - Strong communication skills across engineering, legal, operations, auditors, and customers. - Relevant certifications such as OSCP, AWS Security Specialist, OSWE, CKS, or GIAC, or demonstrated expertise through CVEs, published security tooling, or bug bounty work. - Systems programming or low-level engineering background (OS internals, Linux kernel, networking fundamentals) is a strong plus. ##### Compensation & Benefits Very competitive compensation package including equity. Full medical, dental, and vision coverage. 401k, commuter benefits, and additional perks. Visa sponsorship and relocation support are available for strong candidates. ##### Location On-site in San Francisco, California, USA or Singapore. This is not a remote role. --- Source: Clera's own career page, read by RemJobs. Canonical HTML version: https://www.remjobs.works/job/clera-security-engineer-db409e57-1980-4a79-9ec0-de3910b9f1ff