Liberate is the AI-powered System of Action for Insurance. Handle 100% of calls 24/7, automate claims, and deliver 5-star service with zero wait times. Backed by Battery and Redpoint.
About the role
This is intentionally an infrastructure-heavy security role. You will spend most of your time building and operating production cloud infrastructure, deployment systems, and developer tooling while owning security across the product and platform. This is not a governance-only CISO role or a corporate IT/help desk role. As Liberate’s first dedicated security engineering leader, you will define the function, use vendors where they create leverage, and have the opportunity to build the team as the company scales.
What they're looking for
- You are a senior infrastructure, platform, or DevOps engineer with real security depth, or a security engineer who has personally built and operated production cloud infrastructure
- You write code and infrastructure as code, debug production systems, review architecture, and take changes from design through rollout and operation
- You think in systems: identity, authorization, tenant boundaries, failure domains, blast radius, recovery, and the incentives that make secure behavior the default
- You are pragmatic about when to build, buy, automate, delegate, or accept risk, and you right-size controls to the stage of the company
- You lead through influence without becoming a gatekeeper or creating a separate security lane
- You are a calm incident operator and a crisp communicator with engineers, executives, customers, auditors, and vendors, and you are energized by building a function from the ground up
More about this role
Liberate builds AI agents to automate manual tasks for the $2.7T insurance industry. We started with voice — the hardest and most valuable channel in insurance �� and are now expanding into full workflow automation across sales, servicing, and claims. Our long-term vision is to build reasoning agents capable of handling the entire spectrum of insurance carrier and broker operations. We've raised $72M to date, including a $50M Series B in October 2025, backed by top-tier venture firms.
Reporting: VP Engineering, dotted line partnership with CPO, and Customer Success leadership
Build the secure, reliable infrastructure foundation for Liberate’s agentic platform. You will be a hands-on owner of cloud infrastructure and DevOps while serving as Liberate’s senior technical owner and primary point of contact for product security, cloud security, and compliance.
Make the safest path the fastest path so engineers can ship quickly without normal mistakes becoming outages, security incidents, or compliance failures.
This is intentionally an infrastructure-heavy security role. You will spend most of your time building and operating production cloud infrastructure, deployment systems, and...
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