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Member of Technical Staff, Founding Security Engineer

Pace· Engineering
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New York CityFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Founding Security Engineer to help build Pace's security function across product, infrastructure, GRC, incident response, and secure AI systems, with a customer-centric, pragmatic approach in a fast-growing AI operations platform for insurance.

Responsibilities

  • Build security into our product. Partner directly with engineers on architecture, threat modeling, authentication and authorization, data isolation, secrets, secure development practices, and high-risk product features.
  • Make agentic systems safe. Help us reason from first principles about the security boundaries of AI agents that can access sensitive data, use tools, interact with external systems, and take actions on behalf of customers.
  • Own application security. Identify vulnerabilities before they become incidents, improve our testing and review processes, and help engineers develop strong security instincts rather than creating a security bottleneck.
  • Scale our security program. Harden the systems, controls, policies, monitoring, incident response processes, and risk management practices that a company serving the world’s largest financial institutions needs.
  • Help own GRC and enterprise security. Work with customers, auditors, and the rest of the company on security reviews, compliance programs, questionnaires, controls, and evidence.
  • Raise the security bar across Pace. Security will remain a shared engineering responsibility and help the entire company improve security posture.

Qualifications

  • Significant experience as a security engineer, software engineer focused on security, or in another deeply technical security role.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals. Ability to read production code, write code, reason about distributed systems, and work with engineers on architecture.
  • Depth in at least one security discipline such as application security, cloud/infrastructure security, product security, identity, or detection and response.
  • Experience securing modern cloud applications and understanding threats across application, infrastructure, data, and identity layers.
  • Strong threat modeling instincts and ability to design secure-by-construction systems.
  • Comfort operating in ambiguous environments where the security program is still being built.
  • Ability to distinguish between theoretical risk and material risk and make pragmatic decisions without lowering the bar.
  • Strong communication skills to translate security concepts for engineers, enterprise customers, auditors, and leadership.

Skills

Required:Security engineeringSoftware engineering fundamentalsThreat modeling
Nice to have:GRC / compliance understanding

Benefits

  • Competitive base salary + meaningful early-stage equity
  • Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Unlimited PTO
Last updated Aug 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Pace

The AI operations platform for insurance

Pace turns operating procedures for carriers, brokers, and MGAs into agentic systems that execute complex workflows across documents, systems, and customer channels.

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