# Principal Security Engineer at Altruist

- Company: Altruist
- What the company does: The AI-forward wealth platform and custodian that unifies account opening, trading, portfolio management, billing, and reporting. Backed by Insight and ICONIQ.
- Company website: https://altruist.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-08
- Apply by: 2026-10-23
- Apply: https://altruist.com/join-altruist/6186186004?gh_jid=6186186004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/altruist-principal-security-engineer-2/

## About the role

We're looking for exceptional talent to help us achieve our mission of making financial advice better, more affordable, and accessible to all. If you're passionate about challenging the status quo and want to do the most important work of your life, we'd love to meet you!

## What they're looking for

- Lead, mentor, and grow the security operations / detection & response team, setting priorities and career paths
- Own our 24x7 security monitoring strategy across our managed detection & response provider
- Run the incident response program end to end — from detection through containment, eradication, recovery, and post-incident review
- Define and report on SecOps metrics and SLAs (MTTD/MTTR, alert quality, coverage) to security and executive leadership
- Mature our detection engineering, threat-intelligence ingestion, and response automation (SOAR) capabilities
- Drive regular tabletop and purple-team exercises and partner with Cloud, IT, and Engineering to close gaps surfaced by monitoring

Tags: Engineering