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
A hands-on security research role with a public voice: the DevRel function for security operations and data security. AI models and agents give software new ways to access and move company data. We want someone who will test what that makes possible, find where data actually leaks, and show security teams what they found. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years in security engineering, detection engineering, incident response, insider risk/DLP, security research or sales engineering
- An established public voice in security: talks, a podcast, research write-ups, open-source projects or a following practitioners trust
- You can code, work with APIs and debug across unfamiliar systems
- You understand how enterprise data moves across SaaS, endpoints and AI tools, and how security controls like DLP, CASB, SIEM and EDR work
- You can explain a technical finding clearly and defend it under questioning
- You enjoy talking with security practitioners and engineers, on camera and in person
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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