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Sr. Corporate Security Engineer

Cockroach Labs · New York, NY · On-site

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About Cockroach Labs

Cockroach Labs develops CockroachDB and Cockroach Continuum, an agentic database cloud-native, distributed SQL database designed for extreme resilience, seamless horizontal scaling, and global deployment. Backed by Index, Sequoia and GV.

About the role

Cockroach Labs is looking for a Senior Corporate Security Engineer to help protect our endpoints, cloud platforms, internal applications, and enterprise SaaS environment. This is a hands-on, cross-functional role with a particular focus on AI governance, data protection, and corporate security operations. You’ll help shape how Cockroach Labs securely adopts AI tools and agents, strengthen our DLP and SaaS security controls, and lead security initiatives from design through implementation. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years of experience in corporate security, security operations, IT security, or a related field
  • Experience owning a security program, major initiative, or complex cross-functional project
  • Hands-on experience with DLP, CASB, or SaaS security tools, including creating and tuning policies
  • Experience securing cloud-hosted applications and corporate IT environments
  • A strong understanding of identity and access management, endpoints, email, file-sharing systems, networks, and enterprise SaaS applications
  • Familiarity with the security and data risks associated with AI tools, applications, agents, and integrations
More about this role

For more than a decade, Cockroach Labs has built database technology trusted to power some of the world's most mission-critical applications. Now, as AI transforms how software is created and operated, the infrastructure behind it has to keep pace. Cockroach Continuum is built to meet this moment, bringing individual databases together into one fleet designed for agentic applications, where AI agents help teams provision, scale, and optimize workloads at machine speed.

At Cockroach Labs, you'll solve problems that didn't exist five years ago alongside people who believe the simplest solutions often require the most sophisticated thinking. Your work will run in production at some of the most innovative companies in the world. The people who thrive here are the ones who want to own that opportunity.

Cockroach Labs is looking for a Senior Corporate Security Engineer to help protect our endpoints, cloud platforms, internal applications, and enterprise SaaS environment.

This is a hands-on, cross-functional role with a particular focus on AI governance, data protection, and corporate security operations. You’ll help shape how Cockroach Labs securely adopts AI tools and agents,...

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