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About the Role

We are seeking a Founding Security Engineer to establish the security function at Pace. This role requires a strong security background combined with a customer-centric, pragmatic, and technical approach, focused on enabling rapid and safe product development while building customer trust. Initially, you will serve as a security generalist, addressing application and infrastructure security, enterprise security and GRC, incident response, and secure AI/agentic systems.

Responsibilities

Build security into our product by partnering with engineers on architecture, threat modeling, authentication, authorization, data isolation, secrets management, secure development practices, and high-risk product features.
Ensure the safety of agentic systems by defining security boundaries for AI agents that access sensitive data, use tools, interact with external systems, and act on behalf of customers.
Own application security by identifying vulnerabilities, improving testing and review processes, and fostering strong security instincts among engineers.
Scale the security program by hardening systems, controls, policies, monitoring, incident response, and risk management practices.
Co-own GRC and enterprise security by collaborating with customers, auditors, and internal teams on security reviews, compliance programs, questionnaires, controls, and evidence, with a focus on automation.
Elevate the security posture across Pace, making security a shared engineering responsibility and empowering the entire company to improve security continuously.
Define excellent security practices in an evolving landscape, particularly concerning AI agents and regulated environments.

Requirements

Significant experience as a security engineer, software engineer focused on security, or a deeply technical security role.
Strong software engineering fundamentals, including the ability to read and write production code, reason about distributed systems, and collaborate on architecture.
Depth in at least one security discipline (e.g., application security, cloud/infrastructure security, product security, identity, detection and response).
Experience securing modern cloud applications and understanding threats across application, infrastructure, data, and identity layers.
Strong instincts for threat modeling and designing secure-by-construction systems.
Comfort operating in ambiguous environments where the security program is under development.
Ability to distinguish between theoretical and material risk and make pragmatic decisions without compromising standards.
Strong communication skills for interacting with engineers, enterprise customers, auditors, and leadership.
Experience with AI/LLM security, SOC 2 or similar frameworks, regulated industries, enterprise security reviews, or building security programs from an early stage is valuable but not required.
Willingness to learn unfamiliar security areas is preferred over narrow specialization.

Skills

Security Engineering
Software Engineering
Application Security
Infrastructure Security
Cloud Security
Product Security
Identity and Access Management
Detection and Response
Threat Modeling
Secure System Design
AI/LLM Security
GRC
Enterprise Security Reviews
Compliance Programs
Risk Management
Incident Response
Communication

Location

New York City

Work Type

In-person
Full-time

Experience Level

Founding Engineer
Senior

Salary/Compensations

Competitive base salary + meaningful early-stage equity

Benefits

Full medical, dental, and vision coverage
Unlimited PTO

About the Company

Pace is the AI operations platform for insurance, serving leading carriers, specialty mutual groups, and tech-forward brokers.
We aim to transform the nearly $400bn spent annually on outsourcing in financial services.
We are a talent-dense team of under 40 people based in New York City, well-positioned with leading customers and investors to impact the insurance industry.
Our team values integrity and ambition, aiming to achieve a $100bn+ outcome across vertical services and provide an environment for teammates to do their best work, grow as leaders, and advance their careers.