About the role

We're hiring a hands-on security leader to own Allium's security program and employee IT environment. You'll set priorities, implement controls, and partner with Engineering and business teams to protect the systems and data our company depends on.

AI is changing how software is built and how attackers operate. We want someone who can help Allium use agents and automation safely while building effective defenses against credential theft, compromised dependencies, and fast-moving attacks. You'll combine technical execution with ownership of a growing function, working directly on problems while shaping the team, tools, and specialist support we need.

What you'll do

• Own the security roadmap. Assess our environment, prioritize material risks, and turn priorities into implemented controls with clear owners. Give leadership a concise view of progress, unresolved exposure, and decisions that require their judgment.
• Set the security approach for AI agents. Establish practical standards for agent identities, tool permissions, credential handling, execution isolation, data access, and logging. Partner with Engineering to evaluate coding assistants, model gateways, and integrations, and test for prompt injection, tool misuse, and unintended actions.
• Own employee IT and workforce security. Own the coverage and effectiveness of controls across employee devices, identities, cloud environments, and critical SaaS applications. Track exceptions, assign remediation owners, and build reliable onboarding and offboarding processes. Define how routine IT support is delivered through internal resources or providers.
• Strengthen cloud and software security. Reduce standing privilege and strengthen separation between employee devices, development environments, and production. Establish practical standards for credential storage and privileged access. Partner with Engineering on secure development, CI/CD, and software supply-chain controls.
• Lead detection, response, and recovery. Build a coordinated program across cloud, identity, development, employee systems, and agent activity. Define responsibilities for internal teams and providers, maintain escalation paths, and test containment, credential-revocation, and recovery procedures with system owners.
• Build a fast, evidence-based vulnerability response. Maintain visibility into internet-facing services, including developer tools and management interfaces. Track relevant threats and active exploitation, determine whether we are exposed, and coordinate patching, isolation, credential revocation, or other mitigations. Prioritize based on evidence and business impact.
• Support enterprise trust. Coordinate audits, customer security reviews, vendor assessments, and technical evidence. Work with Legal and commercial teams so security commitments reflect actual controls and have clear owners.
• Build the function. Select and manage security and IT tools and providers, automate recurring work, and help hire and develop the team as needs grow. Use AI to improve the team's work with appropriate data safeguards and validation.

What we're looking for

• Typically 6+ years of relevant security engineering, infrastructure security, or corporate security experience, with evidence of independently owning meaningful security improvements.
• Recent hands-on experience implementing controls in cloud-based environments. You can investigate a technical issue yourself and work effectively with the engineers who own production systems.
• Depth across several relevant areas, including identity, cloud or application security, detection and response, endpoint security, or software supply-chain security. You know when specialist support is needed.
• Experience building or improving a security program at a growing technology company, including making tradeoffs with limited time and resources.
• Practical judgment about AI-enabled tools: where they can help, how their access should be controlled, and how to validate their behavior and output.
• Clear communication with engineers, business leaders, customers, and providers. You can explain a risk, recommend a proportionate response, and follow through.

Experience that would be helpful

• Enterprise SaaS, data infrastructure, fintech, or another business serving customers with rigorous security requirements.
• Securing AI agents, developer tooling, CI/CD, or systems that use non-human identities and third-party integrations.
• SOC 2, customer assurance, vendor security reviews, or managing external security and IT providers.

About the team

We invite people of all backgrounds (https://www.allium.so/about). We have engineers who learnt coding much later in life, who learnt coding on the side, we have engineers who are still in school and we also have engineers who went to the top schools (CMU, Stanford, UIUC, UPenn, Oxford, NUS, Cornell), all are welcome if one comes in with a curious mind and an infectious work eth

Administrative Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and AD&D insurance - US folks get 100% coverage for Gold plans, 80% for dependents
• Ownership - Meaningful early-stage equity. Every full-time employee receives a stock option grant so you can share directly in Allium's upside
• Time off - Flexible, trust-based paid time off. We encourage people to take the rest they need. In every country we hire, our policies meet or exceed local statutory vacation requirements
• Retirement - Company sponsored 401(k) plan in US so you can save pre-tax for the long term

All applicants have to answer this pop quiz: "What is an Allium? What is your favorite Allium?". Bonus points for the right pronunciation.