# Lead Security Engineer at Nuvo

- Company: Nuvo
- What the company does: Backed by Index, Sequoia and Pear VC.
- Company website: http://nuvo.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-24
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.gem.com/nuvo/am9icG9zdDpDbBUZkmw5TTROcMeRod_s
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/nuvo-lead-security-engineer/

## About the role

We are looking for a lead security engineer to stand up and own security at a company building category-defining products. Our problems span safe deployment of AI agents, multi-party workflow automation, identity, risk, and large-scale data, and because we handle sensitive financial information for businesses across the economy, trust is the product.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years in security engineering, with deep application/product security expertise and the range to operate across cloud, infrastructure, and detection when needed
- A track record of building or substantially shaping a security program. You should be comfortable being the one who decides what to do first and why
- Strong engineering fundamentals: you read and write production code, and you can earn the trust of the engineers you partner with
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to communicate technical risk clearly to engineers, to leadership, and to customers
- A passion for internet technologies and a sharp instinct for how modern systems get attacked and defended
- Experience working in an early-stage engineering team or a fast-growing company, solving hard, ambiguous problems with a strong bias for action