# Founding Security Engineer at Karat Financial

- Company: Karat Financial (YC W20)
- What the company does: Business banking that helps you grow. Backed by Y Combinator and USV.
- Company website: http://trykarat.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Los Angeles, CA, US / Remote (US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $120K to $170K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-11-02
- Apply by: 2026-12-17
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/karat-financial/jobs/gD75RKp-founding-security-engineer?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/karat-financial-founding-security-engineer/

## 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

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/karat-financial-founding-security-engineer/