Principal Security Engineer

Responsibilities

Risk & Governance

• Map Vibe's risk model across every major system.
• Set the security roadmap with clear priorities.

Security Engineering

• Pave the road with guardrails and secure defaults enforced across the engineering tool set.
• Ship the golden paths so the safe way is the easy one.
• Harden security across our cloud native ecosystem (AWS and GCP) and third-party providers.
• Own access management from onboarding to offboarding, and get it to the point where it runs without you.

Detection & Response

• Prioritize vulnerability findings by real exposure, assign them to the team that owns the code, and follow remediation through to closure.
• Own security incident response from detection through resolution.
• Turn manual processes into pipelines that run on their own.
• Launch and run Vibe's private bug bounty program.

Trust & Compliance

• Own SOC 2 compliance end to end and maintain current certification.
• Drive Vibe's future compliance initiatives and requirements.
• Define Vibe's security posture and make it self-serve so enterprise deals clear security without routing through you.
• Security Culture
• Run security awareness training and measure behavior changes so the whole company raises its bar.

Preferred

• Ran a private bug bounty program.
• Ad tech security background, including exposure to US privacy law (CCPA/CPRA, VPPA) in a data-heavy environment.
• Navigated security through a company acquisition.

About the Role

You'll be Vibe's founding security hire. Security has been part of how we build since day one and we're already SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, but nobody has owned it full-time. Ad spend and headcount have both roughly doubled every year since 2022, enterprise partnerships keep expanding, and the more visible Vibe becomes, the more scrutiny comes with it. Now it needs an owner.

You'll define the risk model, set the roadmap, decide what we harden and what we accept, and turn policies into running procedures in code on the paths engineers and AI already use. That work happens in a cloud native ecosystem across AWS and GCP, with most of our services running on Kubernetes, everything as code and a GitOps deployment model.

Reporting to our, Head of Infrastructure, and joining a lean six-person Infrastructure and IT team. You won't do it alone, but you'll be the main contributor, and the person every team turns to on security. Since we joined forces with Walmart, you'll also coordinate directly with their cloud security teams.

What You'll Do

Set clear, practical rules for safe AI use, built into the tools themselves, covering both the AI we ship in our products and the AI our teams work with every day.

What You Need

• Built a security function as a company's first security hire.
• Write code comfortably and bring deep cloud-native security experience.
• Managed a compliance framework at scale, such as SOC 2, ISO 27001 or HIPAA.
• Managed AI security risk hands on, both in what a company ships with AI and in how its employees use it day to day.

Our Values

At Vibe, we run on three values: Impact, Ambition, and Urgency. We tie every goal to a real business outcome, think 10x rather than settling for good enough, and move daily rather than waiting for perfect conditions.

You'll thrive here if you own outcomes without needing direction, default to action, and hold yourself to results, not effort.

This is a high-performance environment with high-performance rewards: you'll work alongside people who push you, with real ownership over hard problems in a market that's moving fast.

If that sounds like the best version of your career, we want to meet you.

What We Offer

• The pay range for this role is €127,000-€171,000. We will support relocation to Paris for great candidates.
• At Vibe, we want you to build something, own something, and grow fast. Here's how we back that up:

Variable pay

— Based on real Vibe business goals.

Hybrid flexibility

— We're in the Heart of Paris and our team is in 3x a week!

Health insurance

— Full coverage via Alan.

Meal vouchers

— Via Swile.

Annual offsite

— The whole team, once a year, somewhere worth the trip.

Tech Syncs

— Engineering and Product meet in person at least quarterly, worldwide.

Our Interview Process

We respect your time. Here's exactly what to expect, no surprises, no ghosting.

Recruiter Screen

— 30 minutes. We’ll share more context on the role and team, and learn more about your background and what you’re looking for.

Hiring Manager Interview

— 45 minutes. Meet with the person you’d work with directly and dive deeper into your experience, technical background, and approach to the role.

Technical Assessment

— 90 minutes. A deeper technical conversation covering core engineering skills, problem-solving, and a technical use case relevant to the role.

Bar Raiser Interview —

30 minutes. Meet with a senior leader at Vibe for a final conversation and an opportunity to ask any remaining questions.

Offer

— We move quickly once we’ve made a decision. We don’t let good decisions sit.

Equal Opportunity

Vibe is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

We believe the best ideas come from teams with different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please let us know.

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