Software Engineer, Security
Outtake· Engineering
New York City$160k - $265kFull-timePosted 4mo ago
About the role
Foundational security engineering role responsible for owning Outtake's security posture, building detection and response capabilities, and designing access architecture as the second security hire.
Responsibilities
- Own the security posture of our cloud infrastructure: AWS, EKS, Vercel, Supabase.
- Build our detection and response capabilities for capable incident response.
- Design and operate our secrets, credential, and access management architecture across our services.
- Partner with engineering on secure-by-default patterns: IAM, network segmentation, privilege, and access control.
- Help shape our agentic AI security posture as the platform evolves.
- As our second security hire, shape the function from the ground up and set the direction for how security scales with the company.
Qualifications
- 3+ years in infrastructure security, security operations, or platform engineering with strong security ownership.
- Hands-on Kubernetes security: RBAC, network policies, admission control, secrets handling.
- Experience architecting effective, precise D&R SIEM/SOAR systems.
- Comfort writing and shipping code in your language of choice.
- Real incident response experience as an IC, including communicating with non-security stakeholders under pressure.
- Pragmatism about the tradeoffs between security, velocity, and developer experience at an early-stage company.
Skills
Required:Cloud securityKubernetes securityD&R SIEM/SOARCodingIncident response
Benefits
- Office in Brooklyn, NY: in-person team 5 days a week (with flexibility as needed).
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision for employees.
- Flexible PTO.
- Annual company retreats and regular in-person events.
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Outtake
Cyber Agents for Every Digital Threat
Outtake agentic AI secures modern attack surfaces with advanced search, real-time threat classification, and automated response.
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