See and control sensitive data across AI agents, MCP servers, endpoints, and SaaS — in real time. Legacy tools can't see this, let alone stop it. Backed by Pear VC.
About the role
As a DLP Analyst at Nightfall, you'll be at the forefront of protecting our customers' most sensitive data. You'll become an expert on Nightfall's DLP platform, working directly with security teams to operationalize data loss prevention across their organizations. This is a hands-on role that combines technical depth, investigative skills, and customer obsession to help enterprises detect, investigate, and prevent data exfiltration incidents while maintaining employee productivity.
What they're looking for
- 3-5 years of experience in information security, with at least 2 years focused on data loss prevention (DLP), insider threat, or data protection technologies
- Hands-on experience with DLP tools (e.g., Forcepoint, Symantec, McAfee, Digital Guardian, Microsoft Purview, or other enterprise DLP solutions)
- Proven DLP administration skills: configuring policies, tuning detection rules, managing agents, generating reports, and performing incident investigations
- Strong understanding of data classification methodologies, sensitive data types (PII, PHI, PCI, IP, credentials), and regex/pattern matching for content inspection
- Experience with incident response processes, forensic investigation techniques, and security event escalation workflows
- Knowledge of compliance frameworks and regulations: GDPR, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOX, and their data protection requirements
More about this role
Nightfall is the AI-native, unified data loss prevention and insider risk management platform that protects sensitive data across SaaS apps, GenAI tools, email, endpoint devices, and more. Hundreds of customers, spanning AI innovators to top 10 banks, trust Nightfall to detect and stop data exfiltration at scale. Nightfall enables organizations to innovate freely without the risks of losing intellectual property or exposing customer data. Our agentic platform helps security teams regain their time by putting data loss prevention on autopilot. With automatic remediation, security violations can be resolved automatically before they become incidents, and end-users can be automatically trained and coached in the moment to self-heal violations that they introduce.
Nightfall is backed by leading VC firms including Bain Capital Ventures (Enrique Salem - former CEO of Symantec), Venrock (early investors in Cloudflare), WestBridge Capital, Pear VC (early investors in Dropbox and Doordash), and a cadre of cybersecurity leaders including Frederic Kerrest (founder of Okta), Maynard Webb (former COO of eBay), Ryan Carlson (President of Chainguard), Kevin Mandia (founder of Mandiant), and many...
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