# 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: San Francsico, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-08
- Apply by: 2026-10-23
- Apply: https://altruist.com/join-altruist/6186185004?gh_jid=6186185004
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/altruist-principal-security-engineer/

## 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

- Own security architecture and reusable reference patterns across our AWS environment, Kubernetes (EKS), and Java/Spring platform
- Lead security design reviews and threat modeling for new products and services
- Define standards for encryption and key management, identity and zero trust, network segmentation, and service-to-service authentication/authorization
- Drive our encryption strengthening program and cloud guardrails
- Partner with Engineering, Cloud, and IT to embed security into the SDLC and infrastructure by default
- Advise on security architecture for strategic initiatives, integrations, and framework alignment

Tags: Engineering