Kikoff
Senior Security Engineer, Data Security
$268K–$321K
San Francisco +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 9, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 6+ years in security engineering.
About the job
Owns Kikoff’s data security strategy and roadmap, protecting sensitive data across cloud infrastructure, databases, analytics systems, and AI agents.
What you'll do
- Design and implement data classification, access controls, encryption, tokenization, and secure data flows across AWS, Snowflake, RDS, and internal pipelines.
- Build least-privilege access, audit logging, and data access monitoring; threat model new data flows and support privacy engineering for new markets and regulations.
- Partner with Legal, Compliance, and Engineering to translate data-handling requirements into infrastructure and reusable secure practices.
What they ask for
- 6+ years in security engineering with hands-on data security experience in encryption, tokenization, access control design, and key management.
- Strong command of AWS security primitives, including IAM, KMS, S3 security, and VPC controls.
- Experience securing Snowflake or a comparable data warehouse and production relational databases; experience designing and shipping access control systems.
- Fluency in at least one automation language; hands-on infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform or Pulumi; comfortable in a regulated environment.
Nice to have
- Experience securing data access for AI/LLM systems and agentic workloads; tokenization at scale in fintech or payments.
- Experience building audit logging and data access monitoring, privacy engineering depth, or a consumer fintech or financial services background.
Pay
$268,000 — $321,000 USD base salary
Tools
AWS, Snowflake, RDS, IAM, KMS, S3, Python, Go
AI focus
Define and enforce least-privilege access controls for AI agents; experience securing AI/LLM systems and agentic workloads is a bonus.
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