Business banking that helps you grow. Backed by Y Combinator and USV.
About the role
We're hiring our first dedicated security engineer. Today, security at Karat is owned by the engineers and operators who happen to be closest to each system. You'll take that over and turn it into a program: the cloud infrastructure and edge that run our banking, charge card, and payments products, the pipeline that ships them, the laptops and SaaS our team works from, and the SOC 2 and bank partner evidence that proves all of it is working. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years in infrastructure, DevOps, platform, or security engineering, including years spent building and running production systems on a major cloud provider. You've been on call for something that mattered
- You write code and ship it. Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, or similar), plus fluency in at least one of TypeScript, Python, or Go. We'll ask you to show us something you built
- Hands-on with the corporate side: a productivity suite like Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, an MDM, an identity provider, and hardware security keys. You've rolled these out to real people and dealt with the fallout
- You've built or materially run the technical side of a SOC 2, PCI, or bank partner audit at a company that didn't have a compliance team to hand it to
- Founder DNA. You've started something, or you were one of the first 20 people somewhere and owned a function nobody else would. You're comfortable deciding what matters when nobody tells you
- Finance or fintech experience, and interest in it. You've worked at a bank, a fintech, a payments company, or in another regulated environment, and you understand why a bank partner asks the questions it asks
More about this role
Karat started by building corporate cards and banking accounts for creators, the people you follow on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok and Twitch who run real businesses but were treated as an edge case by most financial providers. The same products fit a much wider set of businesses, and today we serve creators alongside the agencies, studios and growing companies that run the same way.
We've raised $70 million from Signal Fire, Union Square Ventures, Y Combinator, CRV and Coatue, alongside CEOs from YouTube, Twitter and Wealthfront and Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin. Our team comes from Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, earlier startups and the creator world itself, and we're headquartered in Los Angeles.
We hold our customers' money and their financial data, and the compliance and security obligations that come with a banking program are ours to own, not someone else's. Securing that well, without slowing down a small team that ships fast, is the job.
We're hiring our first dedicated security engineer. Today, security at Karat is owned by the engineers and operators who happen to be closest to each system. You'll take that over and turn it into a program: the cloud infrastructure and edge that...
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