Forus
Founding Security Engineer
$180K–$300K
New York office · Full-time · Posted Jul 14, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years in security engineering.
About the job
Build and own Forus’s foundational security program, protecting cloud infrastructure, products, sensitive health data, and AI systems as the company scales.
What you'll do
- Own cloud and infrastructure security across AWS and GCP, including identity, network architecture, secrets, and secure-by-default primitives.
- Build security into product and development workflows, and establish logging, audit trails, detection, and incident response.
- Secure AI data flows and corporate systems; automate technical controls supporting SOC 2, HIPAA, and HITRUST.
What they ask for
- Strong software engineering foundation and the ability to design and implement security systems.
- Hands-on cloud security experience across AWS and/or GCP, including infrastructure as code and building security foundations.
- Breadth across infrastructure, application, identity, and detection and response.
- Ability to operate as the first security engineer with high autonomy.
Nice to have
- Experience protecting sensitive data at scale, especially PHI, HIPAA, or similarly regulated data.
- Experience designing security controls for LLMs, AI agents, and related data flows.
Pay
$180K – $300K (base salary)
Tools
AWS, GCP, SOC 2, HIPAA, HITRUST, LLMs
AI focus
Design isolation and data-flow controls for agentic AI systems and prevent sensitive-data leakage across model pipelines and tool use.
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