About the Role
Lead an AI-first engineering rebuild, establishing the security and compliance foundation from scratch for a company with over 100M audience. Ensure regulated products across financial services, consumer goods, and media are shippable without compromising speed.
Responsibilities
- Own the security architecture and technical compliance posture across Step, Feastables, and the media organization.
- Build a unified control framework, mapping each control to relevant regulations (PCI DSS, COPPA, GDPR/CCPA, SOC 2).
- Automate evidence collection and control monitoring to ensure continuous compliance.
- Set security standards for engineers across cloud infrastructure, applications, and data systems.
- Lead threat modeling and security reviews for high-risk products, including payment systems and minors' data.
- Manage the vulnerability management program and drive remediation efforts.
- Develop and own incident response, including detection, playbooks, escalation, post-incident review, and breach-notification readiness.
- Act as technical lead for PCI DSS and SOC 2 audits, representing the company to auditors, regulators, and partners.
- Translate regulatory requirements into actionable engineering tasks and advise leaders on risk tradeoffs.
- Define secure-by-default patterns and paved paths to streamline compliance for most teams.
Requirements
- Utilize AI daily and integrate it into security work for automation and evidence pipelines.
- Possess approximately 15 years of combined security engineering and compliance experience.
- Demonstrate proven ownership of PCI DSS and SOC 2 in production, from control design through successful audit.
- Exhibit strong cloud security (AWS/GCP), application security, threat modeling, and incident response skills.
- Ability to read and reason about code.
- Clearly communicate risk and explain tradeoffs to the business.
- Prioritize the security of minors' data and customer money.
- Influence decisions through evidence rather than title.
- Possess working knowledge of privacy and minor-protection regulations (COPPA, GDPR, CCPA) and their mapping to technical controls.
Skills
- AI usage in security
- Security engineering
- Compliance engineering
- PCI DSS
- SOC 2
- Cloud security (AWS/GCP)
- Application security
- Threat modeling
- Incident response
- Code analysis
- Privacy regulation (COPPA, GDPR, CCPA)
- Fintech or payments experience (money movement, KYC)
- Security automation
- Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, policy-as-code)
- CISSP certification
- CCSP certification
- OSCP certification
- Standing up a security or compliance function from an early stage
Location
- Bay Area (San Francisco / Peninsula)
- NYC
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Principal-level IC
- Around 15 years of combined security engineering and compliance experience
Education Level
- Relevant certifications (CISSP, CCSP, OSCP)
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive Salary
- Highly competitive equity package
Benefits
- Generous Medical (Blue Cross Blue Shield)
- Dental
- Vision
- Company-paid Life Insurance
- Company contributions to employee Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
- 401k Plan with Safe Harbor company-matching
- Flexible vacation policy
- Paid company holidays
- Company-provided technology package
- Relocation assistance where applicable, including travel and company-provided housing for the first 90 days
About the Company
- Beast Industries is a multifaceted media and entertainment company founded by Jimmy Donaldson (MrBeast).
- The company is renowned for revolutionizing digital content creation and has a diverse portfolio beyond YouTube.
- Its mission is to entertain, inspire, and create significant social impact.
- Beast Industries operates across digital media, philanthropy, consumer products, and innovative business initiatives.
- The company believes in the transformative power of digital media to entertain, educate, and effect positive change.
- Commitment to innovation, creativity, and philanthropy drives the company to explore new frontiers, create unforgettable experiences, and build an inspiring legacy.
